This study concerns itself with the moral economy of history education, or a system of dissemination of values and moral sentiments within a national community through the teaching of history in schools. This system prescribes which emotions are the most appropriate to feel rega…
Malgré des données qui indiquent une amélioration de la place des femmes en entrepreneuriat, de nombreuses études ont démontré que les femmes sont globalement moins présentes dans le cycle entrepreneurial que les hommes (Bosma & Kelley, 2019; Marlow & Patton, 2005). Le s…
The purpose of this research project was to compare the degree of multicultural representation among illustrations of foreign language textbooks from different types of educational systems (central, decentralized, or partially centralized). The study also investigated whether di…
This study examines the applicability of economic and contextual theories of literacy and education in Bangladesh. Economic theories assert that with literacy and education individuals can obtain employment and socioeconomic mobility and nations can experience development and pr…
This dissertation examines five high school world history textbooks for the presentation of women in four major world history themes: Ancient Greece, the Roman and Byzantine Empires, Ancient Egypt, and the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamian Civilizations. The five textbooks chose…
The purpose of this study was to research and identify interpretive tools and Holocaust-related materials, and to construct with these materials a college-level multimedia-based introductory Holocaust text. The research focused on content and construction. The content included s…
Republican Turkish modernization has been initiated and shaped by a reforming elite comprised of the military, bureaucracy and the intellectuals and aimed at a top-down, controlled and hegemonic transformation of state and society through a series of sweeping reforms, which had …
Virtually from the outset of the 1978-79 Islamic Revolution in Iran, scholars began to study the event from different social, political and economic angles. Yet, the rapid speed of the Revolution, its predominantly Islamic character, and the numerous changes that have occurred d…
This study explores the role that national identity and civic values play in the content of current EFL textbooks at Iranian public schools. Stressing the importance of English learning as a core course in schooling and higher education in Iran resulted in the English language b…
My thesis examines the ways in which Black womanhood is constructed in introductory sociology textbooks. My research adds to the research on the depictions of Black women in sociology textbooks by looking beyond underrepresentation and marginalization to examining how the textbo…
Bu araştırmada, ortaokul 5, 6, 7 ve 8. sınıf fen bilimleri ders kitaplarında bilimsel okuryazarlık temaları açısından incelenerek, bu temaların ders kitaplarında hangi oranda yer tuttuğunu belirlemek amaçlanmıştır. Nitel araştırma yaklaşımının benimsendiği bu çalışmada içerik an…
In this current era of postmodernity, globalization, and new technological and social conditions, new approaches to literacy teaching are being introduced and examined. Studies that explore complexities of language teaching and learning in discourses of postmodernity as they rel…
Bu araştırmada, yabancı dil öğretiminde kullanılan başlıca multimedya araç-gereçlerini tanıtmak, Fransızca öğretiminde kullanılan, multimedya araç ve materyalleri ile geliştirilmiş Alter Ego + A1 ders kitabındaki teknolojik ögeleri inceleyerek farkındalık yaratmak, bahsi geçen d…
The purpose of this study was to explore issues surrounding the use of textbooks as a vehicle for curriculum reform. This study engaged both quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate a strand of curriculum reform dissemination within a national educational reform conte…
It is no secret that America's history is one that reflects participation in chattel slavery in 1619. What is untold is the ways in which that part of America's past is reflected in curriculum. The question guiding this research is, "How is enslavement portrayed in 3rd through 5…
The Civil Rights Movement (CRM) is commemorated at movement anniversaries, during Black History Month, and every Martin Luther King Jr. Day. However, some historians argue these public versions do not tell a full story of the CRM, over-simplifying it and portraying it as a story…
Former Yugoslavia dissolved in the 1990s in brutal civil wars and ethnic violence. This was not the first instance of ethnic violence in former Yugoslavia. Similar events happened during the Second World War. This research thesis examines how Croats and Serbs in the 1950s, livin…
Ders programı planlama aşamasında öğrenci seviyesini, öğretmen yeterliliklerini ve uzman görüşlerini, dikkate almak son derece önemlidir. Aksi takdirde okutulan dersin amacına ulaşması zor olacaktır. Bu açıdan araştırmanın amacı; 4. sınıf öğrencilerinin insan hakları, yurttaşlık…
This thesis examines the ways in which the Gettysburg Address has been interpreted and applied in three separate forms of communication over the past one-hundred and fifty years: newspapers, political speeches, and U.S. history textbooks. The author’s analyses of the three mediu…