The Palgrave Handbook of Textbook Studies, 1st ed. 2018

This volume examines the present status and future trends of textbook studies. Cutting-edge essays by leading experts and emerging scholars explore the field?s theories, methodologies, and topics with the goal of generating debate and providing new perspectives. The Georg Eckert Institute?s unique transdisciplinary focus on international textbook research has shaped this handbook, which explores the history of the discipline, the production processes and contexts that influence textbooks, the concepts they incorporate, how this medium itself is received and future trends. The book maps and discusses approaches based in cultural studies as well as in the social and educational sciences in addition to contemporary methodologies used in the field. The book aims to become the central interdisciplinary reference for textbook researchers, students, and educational practitioners. 

Introduction

Part A: History, Theory and Methods of Textbook Research

1. History of the School Textbook

2. History of Textbook Research

3. Theories and Methods of Textbook Studies

Part B: Textbooks in their Contexts

4. Educational Publishers and Educational Publishing

5. Textbook Authors, Authorship and Author Function

6. Textbooks and Education

7. Educational Media, Reproduction and Technology – Towards a critical Political Economy of Educational Media

8. Ideas and Concepts for Using Textbooks in the Context of Teaching and Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities

9. Ideas and Concepts on Teaching Science and Geography

10. Textbook Quality Criteria and Evaluation

11. Materiality and Mediality of Textbooks

Part C: Textbooks and their Contents

12. The Nation, Nationhood and Nationalism in Textbook Research from 1951 to 2017

13. Transnational Identities and Values in Textbooks and Curricula

14. Regions

15. Representations of Class, Race and Gender in Textbooks

16. On Normativity and Absence: Representation of Lgbti* in Textbook Research

17. Religion as a Subject of Textbook Analysis: An exemplary overview

18. Research into Textbook Portrayals of National Socialism and the Holocaust

19. Colonialism

20. Concepts of the Past: Socialism

21. History Textbooks and the Construction of Dictatorship

22. War in Textbooks

23. How diverse are our textbooks? Research findings in international perspective

24. Human Rights as Cultural Globalisation: The Rise of Human Rights in Textbooks, 1890–2013

25. The Environment

Part D: Textbook Use, Effects and Practices

26. Textbook Use

28. Textbook practices: reading texts, touching books

29. New Directions

Eckhardt Fuchs is Director at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany, and Professor of Comparative Education and History of Education at the Technical University of Braunschweig. He has worked in a variety of academic institutions and served as a visiting professor in various countries. His research interests include the global history of modern education, international education policies, and curriculum and textbook development.   

Annekatrin Bock is Deputy Head of the ‘Textbook as Media’ Department at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany. Her research focuses are open education and digital media. She undertook research projects covering areas such as media change, theoretical and methodological aspects of media use, and acquisition of skills and knowledge. She has published on popular media, visual communication, and participant observation.