How students view the role of the textbook nature and society in the adoption of social contents
The paper presents the results of a study of the opinion of the fourth grade primary school students (N=60) from Sombor, Serbia, about the role of the textbook Nature and Society in the adoption of social contents. The aim of the study is to determine students’ opinions about how the textbo...
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doaj-330c43092bb342b4a64f652fbb0b729c2020-11-25T01:34:18ZsrpInstitute for Educational Research, BelgradeZbornik: Institut za Pedagoška Istraživanja0579-64311820-92702019-01-0151112816110.2298/ZIPI1901128T0579-64311901128THow students view the role of the textbook nature and society in the adoption of social contentsTrbojević Aleksandra R.0Španović Svetlana1Vlasta Hus2Faculty of Education in Sombor, University in Novi Sad, SerbiaFaculty of Education in Sombor, University in Novi Sad, SerbiaFaculty of Education, Univesity of Maribor, SloveniaThe paper presents the results of a study of the opinion of the fourth grade primary school students (N=60) from Sombor, Serbia, about the role of the textbook Nature and Society in the adoption of social contents. The aim of the study is to determine students’ opinions about how the textbook assists them in adopting social contents and how this knowledge can be useful in the real life context, which can be a relevant starting point for improving the quality of textbooks. Qualitative methodology was used to analyse the obtained data. Focus group discussions pointed to problems about the presentation of social contents in the textbooks: extensive texts that must be memorised; the lack of explanations in the text; insufficient coherence of the text, which is the reason why the adoption of social contents require assistance in the interpretation of the text. Moreover, there is a problem in the relation between the text and visual displays; the examples given do not sound familiar to students, the text is not related to the real life context, which limits the usability of social knowledge adopted from the textbook. The students’ answers refer to key standards of the textbook quality (the quality of the contents, the quality of the didactic design, the quality of the language used in the textbook), and indicate that the textbook that students use does not contribute to the process of learning complex social phenomena.http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0579-6431/2019/0579-64311901128T.pdfsocial phenomenafourth-grade studentsfocus-group interviewstextbook of Nature and Society |
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How students view the role of the textbook nature and society in the adoption of social contents |
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How students view the role of the textbook nature and society in the adoption of social contents |
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How students view the role of the textbook nature and society in the adoption of social contents |
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How students view the role of the textbook nature and society in the adoption of social contents |
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how students view the role of the textbook nature and society in the adoption of social contents |
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Institute for Educational Research, Belgrade |
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Zbornik: Institut za Pedagoška Istraživanja |
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The paper presents the results of a study of the opinion of the fourth grade
primary school students (N=60) from Sombor, Serbia, about the role of the
textbook Nature and Society in the adoption of social contents. The aim of
the study is to determine students’ opinions about how the textbook assists
them in adopting social contents and how this knowledge can be useful in the
real life context, which can be a relevant starting point for improving the
quality of textbooks. Qualitative methodology was used to analyse the
obtained data. Focus group discussions pointed to problems about the
presentation of social contents in the textbooks: extensive texts that must
be memorised; the lack of explanations in the text; insufficient coherence
of the text, which is the reason why the adoption of social contents require
assistance in the interpretation of the text. Moreover, there is a problem
in the relation between the text and visual displays; the examples given do
not sound familiar to students, the text is not related to the real life
context, which limits the usability of social knowledge adopted from the
textbook. The students’ answers refer to key standards of the textbook
quality (the quality of the contents, the quality of the didactic design,
the quality of the language used in the textbook), and indicate that the
textbook that students use does not contribute to the process of learning
complex social phenomena. |
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social phenomena fourth-grade students focus-group interviews textbook of Nature and Society |
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