French History Textbooks as a Tool for Teaching Civilization

French Historv Textbooks as a Tool for Teaching civilization

Romantic Pedigree of Pahlavi the First’ Nationalism Discourse and National Identity Education in Primary Textbooks

As a modern autocracy, Reza Shah's government adopted a romantic authoritarian nationalist discourse that was rooted in the ideas of German thinkers such as Fichte and Herder as its paradigm for establishing Iranian national identity. This discourse insisted on the "national characteristics" and imagined the nation based on "romanticism" as an eternal phenomenon and national history was conside...

Meta-Cognitive Tool Development for History Teaching: Investigating how Software Usability Affects Student Achievements

This paper presents a Meta-Cognitive Tool (MCT) development for history teaching. It was developed to support teaching history of civilization courses at the engineering faculty. It covers hierarchically arranged concept maps which are presented dynamically by using Extensible Markup Language (XML) files. MCTs are integrated in e-learning portals to support self-learning. MCTs were investigated...

High School Textbooks in Turkey from Teachers' and Students' Perspectives: The Case of History Textbooks

This study is part of a three-year-long research project supported by the Turkish Ministry of National Education. The project aims to investigate social studies teaching from many aspects such as curriculum, the teaching and learning process, textbooks and other instructional materials, student assessment, and the impact on students. This paper specifically focuses on the assessment of high sch...

Excellence in the Foreign Language Classroom: Escapades of a junior high school French teacher

Abstract Teaching and learning of French as a foreign language in any Anglophone country such as Ghana is an extremely difficult task to undertake both on the part of the teacher and the student. This is evidenced in the general low performance of students in the subject at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) level in both public and private schools over the years. This case stud...