Preferred Chemistry Curriculum Perspective: Teachers' Perception of Lower-Secondary School Textbooks

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/jbse/21.20.316" target="_blank" >10.33225/jbse/21.20.316</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Preferred Chemistry Curriculum Perspective: Teachers' Perception of Lower-Secondary School Textbooks

Original language description

The (written) state curriculum is one of the cornerstones influencing education. Its specifically mediated by textbooks. In an open textbook market, the influence of the state curriculum is limited, and the main responsibility passes to individual schools or teachers. In order to understand education from the potential attainment of curriculum goals&apos; point of view, it is necessary to pay attention to the teachers&apos; textbook preferences. This research was focused on the field of lower-secondary chemistry education in Czechia, with special attention paid to the textbooks in use, their choice, and teachers&apos; perception of them. The data were gathered using a questionnaire distributed to a representative sample of 387 lower-secondary school chemistry teachers. The results showed that teachers favor traditional chemistry teaching conceptions. Most teachers stated that textbooks play a vital role for them when preparing lessons and new textbooks are mostly chosen by the most experienced teachers. Most teachers also expressed their preference for textbooks which contain subject-matter ordered according to the structure of chemistry, i.e. not adjusted for learners, as well as textbooks dominantly orientated towards the transmissive approach to education. Regarding the teachers&apos; perception of textbooks, potential limits were identified in implementing innovations in (chemical) education.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Baltic Science Education

ISSN

1648-3898

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

LT - LITHUANIA

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

316-331

UT code for WoS article

000637528500012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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