The Palgrave Handbook of Textbook Studies

Introduction Part A: History, Theory and Methods of Textbook Research 1. History of the School Textbook 2. History of Textbook Research 3. Theories and Methods of Textbook Studies Part B: Textbooks in their Contexts 4. Educational Publishers and Educational Publishing 5. Textbook Authors, Authorship and Author Function 6. Textbooks and Education 7. Educational Media, Reproduction and Technology - Towards a critical Political Economy of Educational Media 8. Ideas and Concepts for Using Textbooks in the Context of Teaching and Learning in the Social Sciences and Humanities 9. Ideas and Concepts on Teaching Science and Geography 10. Textbook Quality Criteria and Evaluation 11. Materiality and Mediality of Textbooks Part C: Textbooks and their Contents 12. The Nation, Nationhood and Nationalism in Textbook Research from 1951 to 2017 13. Transnational Identities and Values in Textbooks and Curricula 14. Regions 15. Representations of Class, Race and Gender in Textbooks 16. On Normativity and Absence: Representation of Lgbti in Textbook Research 17. Religion as a Subject of Textbook Analysis: An exemplary overview 18. Research into Textbook Portrayals of National Socialism and the Holocaust 19. Colonialism 20. Concepts of the Past: Socialism 21. History Textbooks and the Construction of Dictatorship 22. War in Textbooks 23. How diverse are our textbooks? Research findings in international perspective 24. Human Rights as Cultural Globalisation: The Rise of Human Rights in Textbooks, 1890-2013 25. The Environment Part D: Textbook Use, Effects and Practices 26. Textbook Use 27. Textbook Effects and Efficacy 28. Textbook practices: reading texts, touching books 29. New Directions

Eckhardt Fuchs is Director at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany, and Professor of Comparative Education and History of Education at the Technical University of Braunschweig. He has worked in a variety of academic institutions and served as a visiting professor in various countries. His research interests include the global history of modern education, international education policies, and curriculum and textbook development.
Annekatrin Bock is Deputy Head of the 'Textbook as Media' Department at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Germany. Her research focuses are open education and digital media. She undertook research projects covering areas such as media change, theoretical and methodological aspects of media use, and acquisition of skills and knowledge. She has published on popular media, visual communication, and participant observation.