Textbooks for Learning: Nurturing Children's Minds

Foreword.

1. Today's Textbooks, Tomorrow's Minds: The Importance of Textbooks.

Part I: The Characteristics of Well-Designed Textbooks:.

2. Designing the Ideal Text.

3. The Design of Curriculum and Instruction.

4. Designing the Ideal Textbook.

5. Finding the Design in Textbook Materials.

Part II: Well Designed Textbook Publishing, State Adoption, and District Selection:.

6. Current Practices: Publishers, States, and Districts.

7. Creating a Design for Publishing, Adopting and Selecting.

Part III: Stepping into the Future:.

8. A New Approach to Textbook Design: Instructional Support Systems.

9. Bringing about the Ideal: Leaders and Collaborators.

References.