| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 學習與媒材設計學系課程與教學碩士學位在職專班 === 106 === The purpose of this research, based on the curriculum guidelines for Taiwan’s 12-year Basic Education, is to analyze the issues of international education discussed in the current Social Studies Textbooks. In this research, content analysis is applied, both quantitatively and qualitatively, to analyze the current Social Studies Textbooks published by the following publishers: Nan-I, Kang-Hsuan, and Han-Lin.
Some findings of this research are summarized as follows:
1. Social Studies Textbooks focus mostly on “National Identity,”
with the idea of “International Awareness” and “Global
Responsibility” at the second place. Furthermore, the idea of
“Global Competitiveness” share a relative low proportion of
Social Studies Textbooks.
2. The substantive connotation of Social Studies Textbooks focuses
on E1, “Understand our country and other countries in the world
cultural characteristics,” E4, “Understand globalization and
related important issues,” E7, “Know global competition and
cooperation,” E9, “Understand the basic human rights and moral
responsibilities of the world.” Most of the substantive
connotations are at the cognitive level, and the minimum
substantive content is mostly at the level of capacity
development.
3. The types of questions related to international educationin Social
Studies Textbooks: The most prevalent question type is
“interpret and integrate ideas and information”, followed by
“focus on and retrieve explicitly stated information”, followed by
“examine and evaluate content, language, and textual elements,
while"make straightforward inferences" is barely presented.
According to above conclusions, there is some advice for Textbook editors, teachers who design textbooks, and references for researchers in the future.
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