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Schulbuchinhalte inklusiv gestalten: Religion, Gender und Kultur im Fokus

Paris; Braunschweig: UNESCO;Georg-Eckert-Institut - Leibniz Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung (2018), 29 pp.

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Textbook Provision for All: Lessons Learned from the General Education Quality Improvement Project (GEQIP)

Girma Woldetsadik, Chandrani Raysarkar

Washington, DC: World Bank Group (2017), xiv, 40 pp.

"Ethiopia printed more than 78 million textbooks for 20.1 million students under GEQIP1. When the current reliance on development partners to provide teaching/learning materials comes to an end, these impressive gains can be sustained only if the Ethiopian government allocates adequate, predictable ... yearly financing from the treasury to do so. Based on the experience of GEQIP1, the average budget to sustain the provision of textbooks and teaching guides is estimated at 6–8 percent of the yearly recurrent budget for education (8–10 percent if supplementary materials are added). A second prerequisite for sustaining these gains is to develop an effective information management system to track national demand for textbooks in relation to supply and facilitate inventory control. To handle the complexities of international competitive bidding and maintain a strict timeline for routine delivery, the MoE should plan a robust capacity-building exercise that will help Ethiopia not only to manage textbook provision for larger linguistic groups but mainstream access to textbooks for minority groups as well. Lack of expertise and limited production facilities of local publishers and printers have required the government to resort to international alternatives, sometimes to the detriment of local enterprises. Given that it would be preferable to rely on local suppliers to produce teaching/learning materials of comparable quality to those produced internationally, a systematic effort is essential to scale up local capacity and enable the local printing industry to become competitive in supplying national requirements. As in many nations, Ethiopia’s weakest link in the textbook supply chain is the distribution system. Schools in rural and remote areas suffer the most. Restructuring the delivery system would ensure more timely distribution of teaching/learning materials from districts (woredas) to schools. Finally, students must be encouraged to bring their textbooks to school rather than keep them at home for fear of damaging them and incurring fines. Teachers, who are the primary facilitators of learning, must be trained in effective handling of textbooks and to play an active role in sensitizing families to the importance of using textbooks in the classroom." (Main findings, page xiv) more

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Guide to Developing Open Textbooks

Andrew Moore, Neil Butcher

Burnaby: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2016), 62 pp.

"The Guide to Developing Open Textbooks has been developed to assist teachers, teaching support personnel and educational technology administrators to: 1. understand the value of open education, OER and open textbooks for teaching and learning; 2. appreciate the potential value of developing an open ... more

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Coming of Age: Strides in African Publishing, Essays in Honour of Dr Henry Chakava at 70

Kiarie Kamau, Kirimi Mitambo (eds.)

Henry Chakava (honoured person)

Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers (2016), xxvii, 288 pp.

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The Scramble for Textbooks in Tanzania

Sonia Languille

African Affairs, volume 115, issue 458 (2016), pp. 73-96

"In 2014, the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) government in Tanzania decided to discontinue the market-based system for textbook provision that was established in the early 1990s and revert to full state control. Drawing on the theory of political settlements and the literature on Tanzania's industrial po ... more

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Inside De Caliphate's Classroom: Textbooks, Guidance Literature, and Indoctrination Methods of the Islamic State

Jacob Olidort

Washington, DC: Washington Institute for Near East Policy (2016), xii, 76 pp.

"The study is divided into three parts, the first of which describes the Islamic State’s publishing house, Maktabat al-Himma, and its activities and offers a rough chronology of when the group published various works. The second part examines the group’s classroom textbooks, drawing comparisons ... more

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A guide for strengthening gender equality and inclusiveness in teaching and learning materials

Jennae Bulat, Michelle Lapp

Washington, DC: USAID (2015), IV, 28 pp.

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Where Have All the Textbooks Gone? Toward Sustainable Provision of Teaching and Learning Materials in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tony Read

Washington, DC: World Bank Group (2015), xxiii, 266 pp.

"The key role of textbooks and other teaching and learning materials (TLMs) in enhancing the quality of learning is almost universally recognized. Numerous factors are involved in provision of TLMs, including curriculum, literacy and numeracy, language of instruction policy, procurement and distribu ... more

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Der europäische Bildersaal: Europa und seine Bilder - Analyse und Interpretation zentraler Bildquellen

Michael Wobring, Susanne Popp (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), 190 pp.

"Welche Bilder prägen unser Gedächtnis? Bilder nehmen im „visuellen Zeitalter“ eine herausragende Bedeutung für europäische Identität, Geschichtsbewusstsein und Geschichtskultur ein. 14 Bildquellen – Gemälde und Fotografien –, die in den aktuellen Schulgeschichtsbüchern europäischer ... more

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Getting Textbooks to Every Child in Sub-Saharan Africa: Strategies for Addressing the High Cost and Low Availability Problem

Birger Fredriksen, Sukhdeep Brar, Michael Trucano

Washington, DC: World Bank (2015), xv, 106 pp.

"The objective of the study is to identify the cost and financing constraints to text book provision and thereby help countries remove constraints on timely provision of affordable textbooks to all students in primary and secondary education. To this end, the study focuses exclusively on cost and fi ... more

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Annual Book Publishing Industry Survey 2013: Business Economic Report

Willem Struik, Liam Borgstrom

Publishers' Association of South Africa (PASA);University of Pretoria (2014), 30 pp.

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Textbook Development in Low Income Countries: A Guide for Policy and Practice

Richard A.B. Crabbe, Mary Nyingi, Helen Abadzi

Washington, DC: World Bank (2014), 199 pp.

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NS-Propaganda im 21. Jahrhundert: Zwischen Verbot und öffentlicher Auseinandersetzung

Christian Kuchler (ed.)

Köln; Weimar; Wien: Böhlau (2014), 238 pp.

"Der Umgang mit den Relikten nationalsozialistischer Propaganda ist insbesondere in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland heftig umstritten; dies zeigen gerade die Diskussionen um eine wissenschaftliche Edition von Hitlers 'Mein Kampf'. Die Aufsätze des Bandes beschäftigen sich mit verschiedenen Propagan ... more

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African History Teaching in Contemporary German Textbooks: From Biased Knowledge to Duty of Remembrance

Elina Marmer, Papa Sow

Yesterday & Today, issue 10 (2013), pp. 49-76

"In early colonial times, European scientists explained and justified the aggressive and devastating expansion of Europe into nearly every corner of the world. Africans, for example, had been dehumanized, infantilized and bereft of history. The legacy of this manipulative enterprise can still be obs ... more

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Bücher für alle: Die UNESCO und die weltweite Förderung des Buches 1946-1982

Christina Lembrecht

Berlin; Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter (2013), xv, 608 pp.

"Bücher für alle verfügbar und zugänglich zu machen, war oberste Zielsetzung der Buchförderungsprogramme der UNESCO. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Maßnahmen, die die UNESCO weltweit zur Verbesserung der Produktions- und Distributionsstrukturen des Buches durchführte, und geht Fragen n ... more

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Optimising Learning, Education and Publishing in Africa: The Language Factor. A Review and Analysis of Theory and Practice in Mother-Tongue and Bilingual Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Adama Ouane, Christine Glanz (eds.)

Hamburg; Tunis: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning;Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) (2011), 380 pp.

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Medien-Macht und Religionen: Herausforderung für eine interkulturelle Bildung

Manfred L. Pirner, Johannes Lähnemann, Werner Haußmann (eds.)

Berlin: EB-Verlag (2011), 362 pp.

"Medien und Religionen: ein brisantes Thema, das bisher nur unzureichend bearbeitet ist. Dabei ist spätestens seit dem 11. September 2001, seit den heftigen Auseinandersetzungen um die Mohammed-Karikaturen und dem Streit um das provokante Buch von Thilo Sarrazin deutlich, wie sehr Bilder und Videos ... more

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Racism and the Image of Africa in German Schools and Textbooks

Elina Marmer, Dalia Marmer, Leona Hitomi, Papa Sow

International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations, volume 10, issue 5 (2010), pp. 1-12

"Poverty, violence and underdevelopment are the prevailing images of Africa in German history and geography textbooks. Pre-colonial African history, African culture and philosophy are not covered by Eurocentric curricula.Classic and modern western literature is interspersed with stereotypes about Af ... more

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UNESCO Guidebook on Textbook Research and Textbook Revision
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Falk Pingel

Paris; Braunschweig: UNESCO;Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, 2nd revised and updated ed. (2010), 83 pp.

"The UNESCO Guidebook is now available in an updated and supplemented edition. The revision has taken into account recent developments in textbook production and textbook research: the rapidly growing market for electronic instructional media, the differentiation and regionalization of textbook prod ... more

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Report of First Pan African Conference on Curriculum, Literacy and Book Sector Development: Rebuilding Education in Africa. Conference of African Ministers of Education (Comedaf IV). Steering Committee Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 24th–25th September, 2009

Science and Technology African Union. Department of Human Resources

Addis Ababa: African Union (2009), 12 pp.

"Within the framework of the Second Decade for Africa 2006-2015, the First Pan African Conference on Curriculum, Literacy and Book Sector Development: Rebuilding Education in Africa, was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from the 24th to 27th March 2009. The objectives of the conference were to critic ... more

Where Have All the Textbooks Gone? Toward Sustainable Provision of Teaching and Learning Materials in Sub-Saharan Africa Top Insights

UNESCO Guidebook on Textbook Research and Textbook Revision Key Guidance

Where Have All the Textbooks Gone? Toward Sustainable Provision of Teaching and Learning Materials in Sub-Saharan Africa
Top Insights

UNESCO Guidebook on Textbook Research and Textbook Revision
Key Guidance