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Astrid M. C. Jehle; Marleen G. Groeneveld; Tessa M. van de Rozenberg; Judi Mesman – European Journal of Education, 2024
This cross-national European comparison examined gender representation and stereotypes in mathematics and language textbooks from Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Romania. The results showed that female characters were numerically underrepresented. Female characters were also less often a main character or individually portrayed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Textbook Content, Textbook Evaluation
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Carvalho, Graca S.; Dantas, Catarina; Rauma, Anna-Liisa; Luzi, Daniela; Ruggieri, Roberta; Bogner, Franz; Geier, Christine; Caussidier, Claude; Berger, Dominique; Clement, Pierre – Science Education International, 2008
Classically, health education has provided mainly factual knowledge about diseases and their prevention. This educational approach is within the so called Biomedical Model (BM). It is based on pathologic (Pa), curative (Cu) and preventive (Pr) conceptions of health. In contrast, the Health Promotion (HP) approach of health education intends to…
Descriptors: Health Education, Health Promotion, Textbooks, Biomedicine
Sivazliyan, S. Abbiati; Sullam, A. V. Calimani – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1988
Discusses current research about the teaching of Italian as a foreign language. A form designed for the evaluation of textbooks for Italian as a foreign language is presented, and eight textbooks for the teaching of Italian as a foreign language are evaluated according to this form. (CFM)
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries, Italian, Second Language Instruction
Freudenstein, R., Ed. – 1978
Essays that consider the way that women are portrayed in foreign language textbooks are presented. The selected essays were submitted to a competition sponsored by the Federation Internationale des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes, which requested that language teachers assess such concerns as: (1) whether women were described in a stereotyped way;…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Family Life