textbook
Let an agent explain textbooks as a kind of publication and instructional material, identify kinds and their uses, relay adoption, open access and regulation frameworks, and present debates about content and cost with attribution.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain textbooks as a kind of publication and instructional material, identify kinds and their uses, relay adoption, open access and regulation frameworks, and present debates about content and cost with attribution.
A book written for the systematic study of a subject, used in schools and universities as instructional material and organised by curriculum, including primers and basal readers for early literacy, university textbooks, subject books such as chess books and open textbooks published under free licences; textbooks are tertiary sources compiled from established knowledge, are adopted by institutions, and are produced by an industry with debates over cost, accuracy and content.
What it is for: Systematic teaching and learning of a subject.
It can be explain the kind and its features; identify kinds by level and subject; relay adoption and open textbook frameworks; present debates with attribution.
Distinguishing features
Curriculum alignment
Tertiary source
Institutional adoption
Pedagogical apparatus
What it looks like
A printed or digital book organised into chapters with exercises, summaries and illustrations.
How it is recognised
Book for systematic study of a subject
Primers, school, university and open textbooks
Monographs present research; reference works are consulted, not studied through
Related models
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is adopted by - for courses
In practice
Families and kinds
primers and basal readers
school textbooks by subject and grade
university textbooks
subject manuals such as chess books
open textbooks under free licences
digital and interactive textbooks
historical educational prints such as epinal prints, listed as an alias
Identifiers
ISBN per edition
Standards and regulation
Textbook approval and adoption processes by education authorities
Copyright and open licences such as Creative Commons
Accessibility requirements for educational materials
Failure modes and hazards
Errors and outdated content
High cost and access barriers
Political contestation of content
Confusing textbooks with reference works
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Concept What a textbook is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition and features.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a textbook, and what features distinguish it from other books? definition
- Is the book a textbook, a monograph or a reference work? boundary
Kinds
Kinds.
Kinds
Kinds.
- What kinds of textbook exist by level, subject and licence? definition
- Which entry fits the specific kind? action
Use Use and adoption.
Practice.
Adoption
Adoption and approval.
Adoption
Adoption.
- How are textbooks approved and adopted by schools and universities? provenance
- Which entry fits curriculum? action
Pedagogy
Pedagogical design.
Pedagogy
Pedagogy.
- How are textbooks designed for learning, and what does research say about their effectiveness? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Access Cost and open access.
Attribution.
Cost
Cost debates.
Cost
Cost.
- What debates exist about textbook cost and the publishing industry, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Open
Open textbooks.
Open
Open.
- How do open textbooks and open educational resources work? provenance
- Which entry fits open educational resources? action
Context History and content debates.
Context.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did textbooks develop from primers and hornbooks to modern and digital forms? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of education? action
Content
Content controversies.
Content
Content.
- How are textbook contents contested in history and science education, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should open textbook and primer be separate entries?
- How should adoption processes be linked by country?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming kinds and a historical print; should they be split off?