Textbook Quality: A Guide to Textbook Standards

This book is about textbooks, textbook quality and quality standards of textbooks. From a theoretical point of view, in the light of Bahtin's theory of speech genres, school textbooks are seen as a specific, complex genre, defined by the addressee. At the same time, this approach requires us to see textbooks as a cultural product. From an educational point of view, textbooks are, according to Vygotsky's theory of cultural development, a key socio-cultural aid to cognitive development in school years. Forty-three quality standards are operationally defined and explained. They can be used for compiling textbooks, for textbook accreditations, for textbook evaluation and for selection by teachers.

Ana Pesikan is Associate Professor within the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Her professional expertise is in educational and developmental psychology.

Slobodanka Anti? is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She is the Director of the Education Forum and a consultant for the Serbian strategy for educational development in 2020.

Eckhardt Fuchs ist Direktor des Leibniz-Instituts für Bildungsmedien Georg-Eckert-Institut und Professor für Historische und Vergleichende Bildungsforschung an der TU Braunschweig.