Textbooks for Learning – Nurturing Children′s Minds

Preface.
<p>Foreword.</p>
<p>1. Today′s Textbooks, Tomorrow′s Minds: The Importance of Textbooks.</p>
<p>Part I: The Characteristics of Well–Designed Textbooks:.</p>
<p>2. Designing the Ideal Text.</p>
<p>3. The Design of Curriculum and Instruction.</p>
<p>4. Designing the Ideal Textbook.</p>
<p>5. Finding the Design in Textbook Materials.</p>
<p>Part II: Well Designed Textbook Publishing, State Adoption, and District Selection:.</p>
<p>6. Current Practices: Publishers, States, and Districts.</p>
<p>7. Creating a Design for Publishing, Adopting and Selecting.</p>
<p>Part III: Stepping into the Future:.</p>
<p>8. A New Approach to Textbook Design: Instructional Support Systems.</p>
<p>9. Bringing about the Ideal: Leaders and Collaborators.</p>
<p>References.</p>