Books - The Textbook: Its Role, Content, and Quality

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