Textbooks and Educational Media: Perspectives from Subject Education

Chapter 1. Textbook as a Medium: Impulses from Media Studies for Research on Teaching Materials and Textbooks in educational Sciences.- Chapter 2. Colombia's Social and Political Conflict in Primary School Textbooks on Social Sciences: Narrative and Historical Representation (2003-13).- Chapter 3. Textbooks for Rural Schools: Conflict Between Norms and School Practices.- Chapter 4. The Shifting Landscape of Text and How it is Comprehended.- Chapter 5. Bhaskar's Theory of Publishing and its Contribution to Theorizing (Evolving New Forms of) Educational Media.- Chapter 6. The Use of Community Resources for the Inclusion of Preschool Students in Schools.- Chapter 7. The Role of Teaching Materials in Educational Innovation in Early Childhood Education. Initial Reflections and Analysis of Good Practices.- Chapter 8. Research Background in the Field of Textbooks and Music Teaching Materials in Preschool Education.- Chapter 9. Images of Antiracism and the Crisis of White Patriarchy in Swedish Primary School Textbooks.- Chapter 10. Analysis of Visual Components in Czech History Textbooks for Lower Grades of Elementary Schools.- Chapter 11. Doing Research on Geography Textbooks. An Overview of Methods, Samples, and Topics in International and German Journals (1960-2020).- Chapter 12. Geography Textbooks as a Political Tool to Promote Energy Transitions?.- Chapter 13. Geographical Reading of the "Global Warming Ready" Advertisement.- Chapter 14. Well Designed Digital Textbooks-Users' Requirements.- Chapter 15. Didactics as a School Discipline: A Study of General Didactics Textbooks.- Chapter 16. Manuals Aimed at Guiding Teachers in Teaching Physics for the Initial Grades of Elementary School.- Chapter 17. The Teaching of Botany in Portugal: An Analysis of Primary School Textbooks (1900-2000).- Chapter 18. Images as Resources In Biological Science Teaching.- Chapter 19. Pedagogic Practice and Science Textbooks: Experiences of the PDE/PR.- Chapter 20. Selection and

Péter Bagoly-Simó is a Full Professor and the Chair of Geography Education in the Department of Geography at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research interests include educational media and textbooks, curricula, geographical knowledge, and Education for Sustainable Development. Most of his work follows an international and comparative perspective. The International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media (IARTEM) appointed him as a board member in 2013.
Dr. Zuzana Sikorová, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. She is the head of the Centre for Educational Research and currently the vice-dean for International Affairs. For more than twenty years, her research work has been focused on teaching and learning materials, and since 2018 she acts as the vice-president of the International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media (IARTEM).