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Textbooks for Learning
Nurturing Children's Minds

Marilynn Chambliss (Author), Robert Calfee (Author)

9781557864123, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 2 November 1998

340 pages
22.9 x 15.5 x 2.6 cm, 0.454 kg

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

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.

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]
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