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Ayhan Ural; Merve Alpaydin Üreten – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2024
The objective of this study is to conduct an analysis of the social class representations in visual materials utilized in the English language textbook at the 9th-grade level during the 2022-2023 academic year in Turkiye. Employing a descriptive qualitative research design, data were obtained through the documentation method by scrutinizing visual…
Descriptors: Social Class, Textbook Evaluation, Grade 9, Foreign Countries
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Berat Ahi; Volkan Atasoy; Sibel Balci – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2018
The importance of plants is not as clearly understood as that of animals. This lack of attention is called "plant blindness" and is considered one of the most important problems in biology education. Textbooks do not put much emphasis on plants and, therefore, they may contribute to plant blindness. In this research, ten textbooks used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Plants (Botany), Content Analysis
Zorba, Mehmet Galip – Online Submission, 2020
This study aimed to investigate what cultural meanings English language learners (ELLs) attributed to the selected digital photographs and how they interpreted these photographs at the intersection of 'my culture' and 'other culture' dichotomy. This qualitative study was carried out during the fall term of 2020-2021 at a state university in…
Descriptors: Photography, Social Media, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
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Andarab, Mehdi Solhi – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2019
The recent improvements in technology and their integration in language learning have played a facilitating role in vocabulary acquisition. Quizlet, an online teacher-/student-friendly tool, is one of the leading applications in vocabulary acquisition. Along with the effectiveness of visualization in acquiring vocabulary, humor has been also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Kükürt, Remzi Onur – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
By referring to the theory of semiology, this study aims to present how certain phrases, applications, images, and objects, which are assumed to be unnoticed in the educational process as if they were natural, could be read as signs encrypted with certain ideologically-loaded cultural codes, and to propose semiology as a method for educational…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Misconceptions, Photography, Visual Aids
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Gülden, Bahadir; Kaplan, Kadir – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
The cultural elements are significant for native language teaching, so it is unavoidable that the Turkish textbooks include cultural elements. The aim of the research is to determine the presence of intangible cultural heritage elements in the visual materials (painting, photography etc.) in the secondary school 6th grade Turkish language…
Descriptors: Turkish, Textbooks, Cultural Traits, Native Language Instruction
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Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2010
The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2009 proceedings, see ED504973.]
Descriptors: Social Studies, Proverbs, Social Justice, Global Approach