Collection Of Textbooks Research Articles

Whose work matters? A tool for identifying and developing more inclusive physics textbooks

The lack of representational diversity and role models in physics, including in our textbooks and curricular materials, is an oft-cited contributing factor to the continuing dramatic under-representation of women and people of color in physics. In this work, we develop an automated, Python-based tool for identifying the names and demographics of scientists who are mentioned in indices and chapters of physics textbooks, enabling authors, publishers, and users of physics textbooks to rapidly analyze the demographics of these texts. We quantitatively validate the automated tool using standard machine learning metrics, attaining high accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 scores. The tool is then used to demonstrate two of the many potential applications: examining whose work is mentioned in the entire collection of textbooks used in a representative four-year undergraduate physics major curriculum as well as an analysis of the demographics of scientists mentioned in a selection of ten introductory physics textbooks. Both of the sample analyses result in a similar portrait, showing that the undergraduate physics textbooks examined in this work focus overwhelmingly on work attributed to White men of European, British, and North American descent. This work points to an urgent need for the physics education community, including textbook publishers, authors, and adopters, to work together to broaden our portrayals of physics to reflect the vast diversity of scientists, both historically and contemporaneously, who are working in this field.

UM LUGAR AO SOL: A RACIONALIDADE NEOLIBERAL E A CONSTITUIÇÃO DE DISCURSOS SOBRE O TRABALHO EM COLEÇÕES DIDÁTICAS DE PROJETO DE VIDA DO NOVO ENSINO MÉDIO

The current research focuses on didactic collections of Life Project, with the aim of investigating how discourses about work, present in these educational materials, intersect with neoliberal rationality, which permeates the entire process of curriculum reconfiguration that Brazilian high school has undergone in recent years, particularly concerning the Novo Ensino Médio (NEM - a new reformulation of high school in Brazil) and the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC - set of guidelines for the Brazilian educational curriculum). To accomplish our objectives, the discursive studies of Michel Foucault were used, especially in relation to discourse, statement, and his reflections on neoliberalism. The corpus consists of statements extracted from three Projeto de Vida didactic collections, which were approved in the Programa Nacional do Livro e do Material Didático (PNLD - Brazilian Textbook Program), 2021 edition. We decided to examine samples of textbook collection entitled Projto de Vida that corresponds to teacher’s guide. We did this in order to construct a critical view about directions that are recommended to teachers Based on the analysis conducted, it was possible to observe that the connection between work and neoliberalism occurs through discursive regularities linked to the instabilities of the world of work and the need to generate flexible, autonomous, and proactive youth behaviors, as they advocate values related to resilience and competition, terms strongly linked to the business field and connected to BNCC-EM and NEM.

Role of the School Library in Supporting the Teaching and Learning Process and Student Literacy at SDN Sawojajar 1

Background: A school library is a library established by each school where the library has an important role in the student teaching and learning process.
 Purpose: This research aims to determine what efforts the Library at SDN Sawojajar 1 made to support the teaching and learning process and student literacy.
 Design and methods: This research uses a descriptive qualitative approach. The data collection techniques used were observation, interviews, and documentation.
 Results: The results of the research show that the efforts made by the SDN Sawojajar 1 Library, which plays a role in supporting the teaching and learning process and literacy, are by providing various kinds of collections, implementing the Steel Corner program, implementing the literacy movement (GLS) program, and making library visits mandatory. The policy of providing a collection of textbooks, applicable books, and references helps meet students' needs in understanding the school curriculum. It stimulates interest in reading outside the context of formal learning. The Reading Corner Program provides opportunities for students to read books according to their interests. In contrast, the Literacy Movement (GLS) provides a holistic approach by integrating audio-visual media to improve student literacy. With the various efforts made by the library, it is hoped that it can become a dynamic and effective learning center in supporting the teaching and learning process and increasing student literacy at SDN Sawojajar 1.

“And we also have it online”: cultivating an etextbook collection in a community college library

This case study details how a community college library, in response to rising textbook costs and Covid-related closures, advocated for and received an increase in funding to provide online copies of many textbooks in its reserve collection. It also provides a glimpse into the roadblocks acquisitions librarians might encounter in trying to bolster online textbook collections, such as licensing issues, expense, and loan periods. The initiative resulted in a major expansion of access to etextbooks, particularly lower undergraduate titles from large textbook publishers. The new etextbooks varied greatly in popularity. Circulation statistics of print textbooks are presented along with usage data for etextbooks for the first year of this initiative. Initial statistics illustrate the potential popularity of etextbooks and also show the need for further investigation about which disciplines are best served by etextbook access, and how best to raise awareness of these titles for professors as well as students.

O PNLD 2022 e a curricularização da alfabetização na educação infantil

ABSTRACT This article presents research that aimed to analyze the literacy proposals of two textbook collections approved in the PNLD 2022 regarding appropriation of alphabetic writing. As methodological procedures, a documental analysis of volumes 1 and 2 of the Porta Aberta and Bambolê books for children aged 4 and 5, respectively, was carried out. These book collections were the most chosen by Early Childhood Education teachers from public schools in some cities in the state of Pernambuco. Data analysis indicated that both collections, complying with the requirements of the PNLD 2022 public notice, propose work focused on preparing children for literacy with a focus on motor coordination exercises, auditory and visual discrimination and the explicit teaching of relations between the letters of the alphabet and their corresponding sounds. The proposals for teaching reading and writing presented in the analyzed collections contradict what is presented in the DCNEI and BNCC for the Early Childhood Education stage, since they do not prioritize interactions and play, and do not guarantee, in working with children, their basic rights.

INNOVATION VS. TRADITION: MICROBIOLOGY TEXTBOOKS IN THE AGE OF TECHNOLOGY

In the ever-changing environment of advanced technology use in education, many things are becoming, if not obsolete, then irrelevant. The education market is still teaming with traditional microbiology textbooks from seasoned authors despite the presence of new, interactive, and colorful textbooks that are student-friendly and relevant. Although senior instructors in the field of education continue to assemble collections of textbooks on their office shelves, college students’ bags have lightened and now accommodate a laptop rather than weighty textbooks. At Chicago State University (CSU) we surveyed our current student population from years 1 to 4. The 120-students registered in the College of Health Sciences and Pharmacy were enrolled in the study and were asked questions using the Google form survey tool. The questionnaire included questions about all course textbooks including microbiology. The data suggested that less than 1% of the students bought a textbook as mandated in the course syllabi. 5% of the students studied from free Portable Document Format (PDF) versions available through the internet. More than 90% of the students affirmed that they do not find the need or time to read textbooks. They not only found them boring but an absolute waste of their precious time. The students also reiterated that the content of the textbooks was never tested in their exams and assessments. The respondents overwhelmingly declared that the price of textbooks was not the major issue, and their student loans would cover the book allowances. We speculate that with this rising trend of textbook-free course offerings, there will not only be a shortage of useful textbooks in the education market but that young authors in the field of microbiology will become discouraged and disillusioned. It is therefore time to rethink, replan and reverse the fate of students’ eternal companion: the textbook.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0056/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Upgrading Financial Literacy of the Community and Entrepreneurs in the Face of Inflation through Writing and Publishing Articles on Kumparan

This community service activity discusses the importance of financial literacy in managing company finances effectively, especially in the face of inflation. In the era of globalization and rapid economic change, people and entrepreneurs are required to have adequate knowledge and skills in facing these financial challenges. Community service activities are explained as an effective method to improve their financial literacy in the face of inflation. The method of community service activities includes three concrete steps. First, the identification of financial literacy needs is carried out through a literature review to understand economic conditions, financial literacy information, and challenges faced by the public and entrepreneurs in facing inflation. Second, the writing and collection of previous articles and textbooks is carried out in a language that is easily understood by the general public and contains relevant information and workable solutions. Third, these articles are published in popular online media such as Kumparan to facilitate public access to information and knowledge about financial literacy. In the results and discussion section, financial literacy needs were identified based on the level of understanding of financial management policies, awareness of the importance of financial literacy, information and education needs, and availability of resources. Furthermore, it describes financial management policy steps that can be taken in dealing with inflation, such as financial risk identification, financial risk analysis, planning responses to risks, implementing these responses, and evaluating implementation results. The discussion also emphasized the importance of monitoring the company's financial performance through financial ratios. The closing of the article provides suggestions for further community service activities. Overall, this activity underscores the importance of financial literacy in the face of inflation and provides practical guidance for entrepreneurs and the public in managing company finances.

Contextualisation of Geometry Tasks in High School Mathematics Textbooks

Background: Geometry is often seen as an area of mathematics that is present in everyone’s daily life. Looking around, we see it in the shapes of objects, in nature, etc. Therefore, it would be natural to expect that its approach in textbooks, for example, would bring different contexts in which it would be present. Objective: To discuss how contexts are introduced in geometry tasks in a collection of mathematics textbooks. Design: We use a qualitative approach of the documentary type as a methodology. Environment and participants: A collection of high school mathematics textbooks approved by the National Textbook and Didactic Material Program – 2018 was selected. Data collection and analysis: Data were produced, organised, and analysed using horizontal and vertical analysis methods in each collection volume, according to the different references of contexts. Results: They concern the different references of contexts involved in the tasks. From the 1,335 tasks analysed, 1,108 were contextualised in purely mathematical situations, while the rest, 227, were in contexts of reality. In this, there are 215 referring to reasonable semi-realities, and, on the other hand, the real context contemplates only three. Finally, nine concern tasks in unreasonable semi-real contexts. Conclusions: The restriction of the different context references that students can experience from this collection is discussed. The contexts presented do not include a broad spectrum based on a diversity of experiences among the different references of contexts.

Assessing Burdwan University Library Resources and Services by Postgraduate Students: A Study

The survey highlights that students of university regularly visit libraries to borrow books. Most university libraries have sufficient infrastructure like layout, lighting, ventilation, and clean premises. They have an easily accessible location as well. In university libraries, there is mostly a collection of textbooks but inadequate journals/magazines for students. Moreover, open access to documents and electronic information resources is available only in a few departments. The study reveals that university libraries should improve services, like computers, documents, provision of internet browsing, reprography services, proper display of documents, reading tables, chairs, etc. The major problems identified were, the less number of computers in the library and the internet in libraries, short library hours, and lack of user orientation.

OS MANUAIS DO PROFESSOR DE EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA NO PLANO NACIONAL DO LIVRO DIDÁTICO

ABSTRACT: Physical Education was included in the National Textbook Plan (PNLD) in 2019, and the teacher's manual was the adopted book model. This article analyzes the insertion of Physical Education in this program and considers the context of textbooks in this curricular component and the alignment of teacher manuals with the neoliberal curricular policies that have invaded the field of Brazilian education in the recent decades. First, we present the context of Physical Education textbooks in Brazil, from gymnastics guides to textbooks, and to PNLD manuals, a moment in which school Physical Education obtains new relevance in the publishing market. Then, we conduct an analysis of the textbook collection with the highest number of copies sold in 2019 and 2020, named Corporal Practices, from the Editora Moderna publishing company, revealing how it can be seen as one of the signs of ongoing neoliberal curricular reforms. Finally, we sound an alarm regarding the emergence of a sense of school Physical Education shaped by the market and point out alternatives to teacher manuals in order to escape the current market-oriented logic.

Student Academic Achievement with the Ability to Read a Collection of Textbooks from the Library Collection

Objective. The students’ academic achievement is related to their intelligence (IQ). Studies on factors that affect student academic achievement are still relatively limited and few. Purpose of this research is to consider student academic achievement with the ability to read a collection of textbooks from the library collection. Methods. The research method used is quantitative research. While the method of observation is experiment. Results. First hypothesis is academic achievement has a significant relationship with the good reading method. The hypothesis is accepted because academic achievement has a significant relationship with reading habits. Both the experimental group and the control group showed that academic achievement has a significant relationship with students reading methods, or it can be said that the good reading method is equivalent to students' reading habits. Second hypothesis, academic achievement has a significant relationship with students' reading ability is accepted. The calculated Chi-square count is greater than the Chi-square table. Third hypothesis, academic achievement has a non-significant relationship with access to information sources, meaning that the hypothesis is rejected. Conclusions. Student’s academic achievement had a significant relationship with the good reading method and a non-significant relationship with reading ability. Student’s academic achievement had a non-significant relationship with access to information sources.

Computational Thinking Situations in Mathematics classes: an analysis of Elementary School textbook collections

This study aims to analyze how textbook collections, approved by the Programa Nacional do Livro Didático, address the algorithms construction for solving geometric problems. This is a qualitative research, based on assumptions of Content Analysis. The analysis was based on situations related to Computational Thinking and geometric concepts, contained in eight collections of Elementary School textbooks, showing skills of the Base Nacional Comum Curricular. We found that of the skills associated with Computational Thinking, EF06MA23 contained the largest number of situations involving algorithms construction. As for the representations proposed for the organization of the algorithm, approximately 46% of the mobilizations carried out were approached by exploring natural language and 41% in the flowchart/schema representation. Furthermore, only 9 situations explore different types of representation in the algorithm construction. The algorithm represented in programming language was identified in only two collections, which suggest the use of visual programming environments/software.

Statistical Tables in Spanish Primary School Textbooks

Statistics is introduced in primary education in Spain, and its teaching is largely supported by textbooks, which are freely provided to the children. In this research, we analyse the activities based on statistical tables included in two complete collections of primary education mathematics textbooks. These activities are classified according to the type of table, the data presented in them, the activity requested from the student in relation to the table, and the data context, according to those suggested in the PISA studies. Using content analysis, we found that tables of distribution of a variable predominate, mainly with frequencies. The most frequent activity is the reading of information from the table, while the personal context appears in the majority of the activities. This analysis serves to highlight how the teaching of statistical tables is developed throughout primary education and inform the teachers about relevant variables that should be considered in their teaching.

Digital Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Arabic Textbooks

Digital Humanities (DH) provide a broad spectrum of functionalities and tools that enable the enrichment of both quantitative and qualitative research methods in the humanities. It has been widely recognized that DH can help in curating and analysing large amounts of data. However, digital tools can also support research processes in the humanities that are interested in detailed analyses of how empirical sources are patterned. Following a methodological differentiation between close and distant reading with regard to textual analysis, this article describes the Edumeres Toolbox, a digital tool for textbook analysis. The Edumeres Toolbox is an outcome of the continuous interdisciplinary exchange between computer scientists and humanist researchers, whose expertise is crucial to convert information into knowledge by means of (critical) interpretation and contextualization. This paper presents a use case in order to describe the various functionalities of the Edumeres Toolbox and their use for the analysis of a collection of Arabic textbooks. Hereby, it shows how the interaction between humanist researchers and computer scientists in this digital process produces innovative research solutions and how the tool enables users to discover structural and linguistic patterns and develop innovative research questions. Finally, the paper describes challenges recognized by humanist researchers in using digital tools in their work, which still require in-depth research and practical efforts from both parties to improve the tool performance.

Laudatio Prof. Dr.‐Ing. Caroline Röhr

Laudatio Prof. Dr.‐Ing. Caroline Röhr

An Overview of Hybrid, Digital and Virtual Library

A digital library is a combination of textual, numeric, scanned photos, graphics, audio, and video recordings that allows consumers to easily retrieve information from a digital collection. Recent advancements in computer store and processor, communication technologies, e-products, networking, and internet use have resulted in a radical shift in the way libraries and their services operate. Current study discusses a functioning collection of textbooks, documents, newspapers, and audiovisual resources stored and arranged in a library for anyone to read or borrow. Information and Communications Technology (ICT)has had a significant influence on libraries, and it has altered the traditional library idea in which print and paper materials are the primary components of the system. Libraries are transforming into digital libraries in order to fulfill the massive information explosion and rising demand for information. Due to the digitization of library materials and the rapid advancement of technology, a new sort of library has emerged: the virtual library. Most of us are often perplexed by library jargon. In this work, we attempt to clarify the language used in these libraries in a professional manner. Such libraries will increase the efficiency of education in the coming eras.

A Sustainable Way Forward: A Team-based Approach to Tackling Textbook Access and Affordability Issues During the “New Normal”

Like all institutions across North America, The University of Alberta Library has experienced dramatic impacts on our services and collections due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Students at our large research institution have historically relied heavily on the Library’s extensive reserve collection of textbooks and other required course materials, the lending of which was suddenly suspended during a mid-term emergency closure. This column will highlight our team-based approach to aggressively promoting OER to our campus community: from engaging public service desk staff in new roles as their work suddenly shifted, strategizing with our collections team on identifying high impact courses, and establishing a communications approach with librarians. We will discuss how our “by-the-seat-of-our-pants” initial approach has evolved into a functional team with a diverse set of strengths, and a responsive workflow that incorporates OER services as an integrated component of existing library processes.

La hipermedia código QR en el libro didáctico de historia en Brasil

The present work intends to analyze the implementation of the QR Code hypermedia in a collection of History textbooks for students and teachers of Brazilian public schools. For this purpose, we carried out a documentary research which focused on the History-School and Democracy textbook collection (Campos et al., 2018) approved in the Programa Nacional do Livro e do Material Didático (PNLD, 2020 – Brazilian Textbook Program). Thus, this research is fundamentally interpretive, whereby the researcher interprets the data with a qualitative approach. For the development of this research, we consulted authors such as Bittencourt (2011), Choppin (2004) Chartier (1994), among others who have researched the Textbook and its possibile uses. Moreover, we analyzed official documents such as the PNLD 2020 Public Notice, the Guide for choosing the PNLD 2020 Textbook and the Common National Curriculum Base (BNCC). We emphasized the relevance of appropriating Digital Information and Communication Technologies (TDIC’s – Brazilian Portuguese abbreviation) such as the QUICK RESPONSE CODE (QR Code) for pedagogical use, mostly in Textbooks, because these can enable more interactive and attractive classes, allowing students to be protagonists of the their development through meaningful learning.

Relief in Geography Textbook

The theme relief presents several meanings and forms of approach. When submitted to the pedagogical text, it assumes characteristics and reproduces specific discourses. The understanding of how the relief is presented in the teaching of Geography dialogues, in this research, with the same produced in the national, state and municipal curricula. This meeting takes place from the reading of two collections of textbooks of Geography of Elementary School-Final Years and evaluates the possible advances, permanence and setbacks between proposals, documents and textbook. The reading of the relief in the geography textbook opportunistized the discussion of the theme and it was noticed that it is still largely linked to the compartmentalized description of the natural aspects highlighted, to the books of the eighth and ninth year, but it is also notorious that there is a search for a more integrative vision between society and nature and a critical and interpretative reading of the landscape, especially in the books of the sixth and seventh year, which provided a greater approach to relief, focused on the daily life of the student and not in a static way, which in this sense is observed as an advance of the content relief in the textbooks.

Características ilustrativas das representações visuais de recursos hídricos em livros didáticos de Biologia

As representações visuais são onipresentes nos livros de ciências da atualidade e, nos últimos anos, se tornaram um objeto de crítica e avaliação. Desta forma, este artigo teve por objetivo avaliar as representações visuais sobre recursos hídricos apresentadas em todas as coleções de Livros Didáticos de Biologia sugeridas pelo Programa Nacional do Livro e do Material Didático de 2018, do Ensino Médio. Os livros foram analisados segundo proposta por Gkitzia e colaboradores que analisaram detalhadamente as representações visuais em livros didáticos. Os resultados encontrados indicam que as obras analisadas apresentaram representações visuais, na grande maioria, adequadas. O fator limitante foi o grau de relação das imagens com as informações contidas no texto, pois não mencionavam ou mencionavam parcialmente as imagens ao capítulo.