Історія шкільного підручника США

Abstract

The article deals with the historical aspects of the development of a school textbook in the United States. The author uses the research of American scholars, whichreveals the role of textbooks in the educational process, the development of a textbook in the context of changes in pedagogy and the values of American society. Research materials show that textbooks are an extremely adaptive way of learning: following changes in education, the requirements for textbooks, the style of theirwriting, and the teaching methods presented in them are changing. On the basis of the analysis of the research results, it was found that the development of the schooltextbook in the United States is transformed at various stages of the history of society, depending on the specific historical conditions, is the result of socio-politicalprocesses taking place in the country. The stages of development of the school textbook in the USA are determined and described. It is revealed that each stage corresponds to a generation of educational books that are characterized by their peculiarities. It is found that today schools use collections of different kinds ofeducational materials, but the basic schoolbook remains the textbook that has been used in educational rooms all over the world for millennia.