Textbooks design and digital resources

Ghislaine Gueudet (1) , Birgit Pepin (2) , Luc Trouche (3)

1 CREAD - Centre de Recherche sur l'Education, les apprentissages et la didactique
2 Avd. for lærer- og tolkeutdanning
3 EA S2HEP - Sciences et Société ; Historicité, Éducation et Pratiques

In this paper we report on the comparison of the design and conceptualization of two very different French lower secondary mathematics textbooks: one which was developed, as it is 'traditionally' done, by 'experts' (teacher educators and researchers); and one which was developed, innovatively, by teachers using a digital platform. These different designs and conceptualizations had repercussions on the content, structure, potential and intended use of the books, which we investigated on the basis of specially designed questionnaires to the two groups of textbook authors. Our results point to re-conceptualisations of the notions of 'quality' and 'coherence' of resources such as textbooks, taking into consideration teachers' documentation work, in particular their – often collective – work with digital resources.

Keywords: Digital teaching resources; Mathematics teaching resources; Quality process; Textbooks authors intentions; Teacher communities; Textbooks design; Teachers' documentation work; Textbooks use

Domains: Education; History and Overview [math.HO]

Ghislaine Gueudet, Birgit Pepin, Luc Trouche. Textbooks design and digital resources. ICMI study 22 - Task design in mathematics education, ICMI, 2013, Oxfors, United Kingdom. pp.327-338. ⟨hal-01145640⟩