Textbooks for Learning: Nurturing Children's Minds

by Marilynn Chambliss, Robert Calfee

Overview

This book is one of the most comprehensive texts discussing the design, selection and adoption of expository textbooks.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557864123
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	12/07/1998
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.09(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.02(d)

About the Author

Robert C. Calfee is Professor of Education at Stanford University.

Marilyn J. Chambliss is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Table of Contents

Preface.

Foreword.

1. Today's Textbooks, Tomorrow's Minds: The Importance of Textbooks.

Part I: The Characteristics of Well-Designed Textbooks:.

2. Designing the Ideal Text.

3. The Design of Curriculum and Instruction.

4. Designing the Ideal Textbook.

5. Finding the Design in Textbook Materials.

Part II: Well Designed Textbook Publishing, State Adoption, and District Selection:.

6. Current Practices: Publishers, States, and Districts.

7. Creating a Design for Publishing, Adopting and Selecting.

Part III: Stepping into the Future:.

8. A New Approach to Textbook Design: Instructional Support Systems.

9. Bringing about the Ideal: Leaders and Collaborators.

References.