Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities Social Sciences. Our aim to make current research available scholars, students, innovators, general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, engagement with international community.

Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities Social Sciences. Our aim to make current research available scholars, students, innovators, general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, engagement with international community.

Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities Social Sciences. Our aim to make current research available scholars, students, innovators, general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, engagement with international community.

Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities Social Sciences. Our aim to make current research available scholars, students, innovators, general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, engagement with international community.

Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities Social Sciences. Our aim to make current research available scholars, students, innovators, general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, engagement with international community.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the content of school textbooks as a tool to prevent tobacco use in developing countries. DESIGN Content analysis was used to evaluate if the textbooks incorporated the following five core components recommended by the WHO: (1) consequences of tobacco use; (2) social norms; (3) reasons to use tobacco; (4) social influences and (5) resistance and life skills. SETTING Ni...

BACKGROUND The understandability and readability of the text are significant indicators of evaluation of textbooks. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study - rationale of improving the readability and understandability of textbooks. METHODS 60 modern textbooks for 5-11th classes on History, Physics, Biology and 23 textbooks of 1960-1980's edition. Flesch index was used to assess the readability, Fog...

Araştırmada, küresel vatandaşlık eğitiminde var olan farklı yaklaşımlardan birisi UNESCO’nun eğitim paradigmasının ülkemizdeki 1998 sosyal bilgiler dersi öğretim programına göre hazırlanan (4-5-6 ve 7.sınıf) ders kitaplarında yer alma durumu incelenmiştir. Ders eğitimi ile ilgili alanlar, UNESCO tarafından geliştirilen Global Citizenship Education (GCED, (Küresel Vatandaşlık Eğitim Paradigması)...

Textbooks are rich sources of knowledge. Harvesting knowledge from textbooks is a key challenge in many educational applications. In this paper, we present an approach to obtain axiomatic knowledge of geometry in the form of horn-clause rules from math textbooks. The approach uses rich contextual and typographical features extracted from the textbooks. It also leverages the redundancy and share...

among the four important factors in the educational contexts, namely, teachers, learners, textbooks and contexts, textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) classroom where it provides the primary source of linguistic input. the wealth of published material for english language teaching (elt) available in the mark...