BackgroundProviding healthcare for students is one of the primary duties of the states. This study aimed to analyze the contents of the science textbooks of Junior High School course in terms of the components of health education in Iran.Materials and MethodsThis descriptive study was conducted through content analysis. To collect data, a researcher-made check list including: physical health, n...

the present study investigates the central concerns of the use of visuals within the four efl textbooks taught at iranian high schools which have been prescribed by the ministry of education. to do this, the four efl textbooks were evaluated and analyzed. descriptive statistics were used to analyze data quantitatively. the analysis indicated that over the four textbooks, 95.71 percent of all vi...

the present study has been carried out with the aim of content analysis (ca) of newly-preparedtextbooks for social studies and science of the sixth grade based on the three environment education grounds, i.e.ecology, environment, and human activity. it is of caand descriptive nature. the statistical population was all thesixth grade textbooks pages and the statistical sample was equal to the st...

the goal of the present research was to study the content organization of the textbooks taught in level one hawza illmiya curriculum and its ideal characteristics on the basis of the thematic integration approach. we first reviewed the relevant theoretical ideas and conducted a primary interview with some of professors teaching in seminaries, upon which we composed a list of characteristics of ...

authentic text is considered to be an important requirement of communicative approach and communicative foreign language teaching textbooks. the present research investigates the authenticity of three pfl textbook by answering the following question: “to what extent are the texts in pfl textbooks considered to be authentic?” accordingly the quantity and quality of cohesion discourse-marker dist...

Event timeline serves as the basic structure of history, and it is used as a disposition of key phenomena in studying history as a subject in secondary school. In order to enable a student to understand a historical phenomenon as a series of connected events, we present a system for automatic event timeline generation from history textbooks. Additionally, we propose Message Sequence Chart (MSC)...

Textbooks are the primary vehicles for delivering subject knowledge to the students and are known to be the educational input most consistently associated with improvements in student learning. With the emergence of abundant online content, cloud computing, and electronic reading devices, textbooks are poised for transformative changes. Inspired by the emergence of the electronic medium for “pr...

Using government secondary school English language textbooks from Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh, we conducted a quantitative content analysis in order to identify gender stereotypes in school education. In total, 21 categories of exclusion and quality of representation were used to study gender stereotypes. Our analysis confirms a pro-male bias in textbooks: the aggregate female ...

Certainly one of the primary goals in developing materials for second language learners should be to create materials that reflect vocabulary and grammar that these learners are likely to encounter in the “real world”. There is little to be gained from having students memorize long lists of vocabulary in a textbook, if the learners never again encounter these words once they venture out in the ...