The Textbook:
Its Role, Content, and Quality


Table of Contents

 

The book is published in Arabic, with abstracts provided in English and French. The site provides abstracts only.

Part I: Lectures

  • Chapter 1: The George Eckhart Foundation for International Studies on Textbooks:

    The Foundation’s History, Objectives, and Domains of Operation, by Jonathan Kriener

  • Chapter 2: Teaching American Values: The Role of Social Studies Textbooks in the U.S., by Patricia Pederson

  • Chapter 3: The Dynamism of Political Formation in Jordanian Educational Discourse: Compatibility or Conflict between Religious and National Formation Regarding the Concept of Democracy and Human Rights, by Marlene Nasr

Part II: Researches

  • Chapter 4: Toward Epistemological Supervision of Lebanese Textbooks, by Andre Thoumi

  • Chapter 5: Representation of Human Values in Textbooks in the Lower Basic Education Cycle in Jordan, by Tayssir Al-Kayssi, Mohamad Al-Rafou, & Ahmad Al-Qarari’a

  • Chapter 6: The Impact of the Cognitive Approach on Textbook Content and the Role of the Textbook in the Learning Process, by Georges Nahhas

  • Chapter 7: The Textbook between Ideology and Objectivity: An Analysis of Third Intermediate History Textbook in Egypt, by Faten Adli

  • Chapter 8: Educational and Ideological Dimensions of History Textbooks in Elementary, Intermediate, and Secondary Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A Prototype of Educational Assessment of History-Writing in the Arab World, by Fawzi Ayoub

  • Chapter 9: Assessment of Teaching Aids in Social Studies Books for Students of Basic Education from the Perspective of Teachers, by Tayssir Andraos

  • Chapter 10: “The Objectives-Activities-Assessment Approach” as it Appears in the CERD National Textbook, “National and Civic Education”, in its First Three Years of Basic Education, by Aisha Harb

  • Chapter 11: Evaluation of the National Education Textbook for the 8th Grade in the Basic Education Cycle in Jordan, by Hussein Murashida & Thaer Ghubari

  • Chapter 12: Conformity of Math Textbooks in the Lower Basic Education Cycle in Jordan to Problem-Solving in International Standards Math Curricula, by Sumaila Al-Sabbagh

  • Chapter 13: The Activities in Science Textbooks in the Basic/Preparatory Educational Cycle in Palestine, by Safi Safi

  • Chapter 14: Grammatical Rule between Theory and Practice: Application on Jordanian and Omani Curricula, by Halima Amayra

  • Chapter 15: Improving the Textbook: The Content of the Arabic Language Textbook as a Model, by Omar Musallem

  • Chapter 16: Is the School Textbook Contemporary and Up-to-Date?, by Naim Al-Rawadi

  • Chapter 17: The Role of Textbook and its Quality in Kuwait, by Leila Khalaf Sabaan

Part III: Presentations

  • Chapter 18: The Arabization of Textbooks: American and Science Textbooks, by Rida Ismail

  • Chapter 19: Translating the Textbook “Procrusteam bed”, by Ahmad Ouzi

  • Chapter 20: The Perspectives of the Secondary Teachers in Lebanon Regarding the Official Textbooks, by Ismat Al-Kawas

  • Chapter 21: Remarks on Textbooks in the Arab World: Lebanon as a Case Study, by Samir Jarrar