With the advent of communicative language teaching, textbook evaluation has received a considerable attention over the last two decades. However, only a few studies have been conducted on the evaluation of newlydeveloped textbooks for junior high schools in Iran; therefore, this paper aimed to evaluate the Iranian junior high school new textbook "Prospect" and its old version Right Path to Engl...

The research employed critical discourse analysis of official social science documents and three prominent lines textbooks. Despite the recent emphasis on incorporating real-world economic practices into school financial education, findings reveal that new textbooks exhibit increased criticism toward market economy. Furthermore, they tend to avoid addressing analysing socio-economic issues pres...

the increasing trend in women's market employment since 1950s in the world has been documented as the most important indication for 'the revolution in gender roles' (davis 1984, cotter et al 2001). despite the significant capabilities of women and the substantial achievements facilitating female labor force participation in the recent years (such as substantial increase both in w...

In Japan, the ‘course of study,’ namely the course objectives, approach and content of the school curriculum, is determined by the standard national curriculum set by the Ministry of Education. It is legally compulsory for schools to abide by the national curriculum standard, so that uniformity and standardization of the school curriculum may be attained throughout the country. The course of st...