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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Main Authors: Trbojević Aleksandra R., Španović Svetlana, Vlasta Hus
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Language:srp
Published: Institute for Educational Research, Belgrade 2019-01-01
Series:Zbornik: Institut za Pedagoška Istraživanja
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Online Access:http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0579-6431/2019/0579-64311901128T.pdf
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spelling 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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Vlasta Hus
How students view the role of the textbook nature and society in the adoption of social contents
Zbornik: Institut za Pedagoška Istraživanja
social phenomena
fourth-grade students
focus-group interviews
textbook of Nature and Society
author_facet Trbojević Aleksandra R.
Španović Svetlana
Vlasta Hus
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title How students view the role of the textbook nature and society in the adoption of social contents
title_short How students view the role of the textbook nature and society in the adoption of social contents
title_full How students view the role of the textbook nature and society in the adoption of social contents
title_fullStr How students view the role of the textbook nature and society in the adoption of social contents
title_full_unstemmed How students view the role of the textbook nature and society in the adoption of social contents
title_sort how students view the role of the textbook nature and society in the adoption of social contents
publisher Institute for Educational Research, Belgrade
series Zbornik: Institut za Pedagoška Istraživanja
issn 0579-6431
1820-9270
publishDate 2019-01-01
description 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.
topic social phenomena
fourth-grade students
focus-group interviews
textbook of Nature and Society
url http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0579-6431/2019/0579-64311901128T.pdf
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