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Textbooks for Learning: Nurturing Children's Minds

ISBN: 978-1-557-86412-3

December 1998

Wiley-Blackwell

340 pages

Description
This book is one of the most comprehensive texts discussing the design, selection and adoption of expository textbooks.
About the Author
Robert C. Calfee is Professor of Education at Stanford University.

Marilyn J. Chambliss is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Features
  • Provides a complete discussion of the role and future of textbooks in teaching
  • Includes chapters on textbook design and textbook selection
  • Discusses ways that publishers and teachers can work together to create better textbooks.