Published: 2018-10-06

Integrated textbooks in early school education - authors’ view versus students’ view

Aleksandra Szyller
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Topic
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2018.2.05

Abstract

In this article the reader will be familiarized with my own research results concentrated around the substantive-didactic and analytic-discursive approach in the early school education debate about textbooks. Qualitative data was gathered through the educational packets analysis and focus interviews with third-graders, enriched with the sample of their own work made during the interviews - textbook tasks designed by them. This article is seeking answers for the following research questions: Which cognitive and social abilities of the students are addressed by the tasks proposed in the selected early school education textbooks? What are the third-graders’ opinions on the textbooks used in classes? The comparison of the textbook discourse with the students’ discourse favors the latter one. Behind a seemingly constructivist assumption, lying on the basis of the textbook, stands its exclusively transmittal form and realization. Children’s opinions on textbooks tasks and ways of working with the educational packets are also very negative. As it has been concluded in the research, the textbooks start to widen the gap between the world of a child and the world of an adult, kill motivation to study and block creative actions.

Keywords:

elementary education textbook, enculturation and conventional analysis of a textbook children’s discourse, adults’ discourse, participation research with children

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Szyller, A. (2018). Integrated textbooks in early school education - authors’ view versus students’ view. Pedagogical Forum, 8(2), 59–72. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2018.2.05

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