- Title
- Accessing and Acquiring Textbooks for Research
- Creator
- Sharp, Heather
- Relation
- Collecting Educational Media Making, Storing and Accessing Knowledge p. 191-205
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/9781800734838
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- The mass production of curriculum materials such as textbooks has existed only since the introduction of compulsory, secular schooling. This is a relatively new phenomenon. In Australia, compulsory schooling was introduced in the 1870s. While the first Australian textbooks were initially written, published and disseminated by departments of education (whether governmental or church-run), textbook production was increasingly left to private commercial enterprise. And whereas in the 1920s there was one main publisher (the government department responsible for education) and one or two private publishing companies producing high school textbooks, by the beginning of the twenty- first century this number had increased to at least ten, including highly regarded publishing houses like Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, whose appearance on the Australian school textbook publishing market was arguably encouraged by the first nationwide curriculum introduced in 2011. While this chapter addresses the specific case of Australian textbooks, the issues it raises (which include the challenges faced by researchers when accessing and acquiring textbooks) are applicable to research contexts internationally.
- Subject
- curriculum; textbooks; education; publishing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1481452
- Identifier
- uon:50729
- Identifier
- ISBN:97818007348451800734840
- Language
- eng
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