Introduction
The Secret Lives of Textbooks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3443167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marga Vicedo (0000-0002-6533-1092, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-87 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/664979 |
| PMID | 22655339 |
| OpenAlex | W2041118552 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 5 |
Textbooks have a low status in the history of science because they have been seen as mere repositories for scientific knowledge. But historians have recently shown how they play a number of roles that can illuminate different aspects of the history of science, from priority disputes to pedagogical practices. The essays in this Focus section aim to expand our vision of textbooks further by showing how they perform various hybrid functions in scientific development
Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Focus (optics · History of science · Section (typography · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · History of Science and Natural History · Philosophy
How Textbooks Create Knowledge and Meaning
Diffusing Economic Knowledge
Addressing the Audience
Utdanningshistoriens skjæringspunkter og muligheter
Kjønnsroller i skolens samfunnsfag
Apprenticeship in the Renaissance University
Temperature in Science Textbooks
Training scenes
The teaching of biological evolution in Mexican socialist textbooks in the 1930s
The reception of Darwin in late nineteenth-century German paleontology as a case of pyrrhic victory
Schooling the Quantum Generations
The forgotten ‘immortalizer’
Serving the Institute and the Discipline
Ethics by committee
Eddington, Teacher of General Relativity
Textbooks in the History of Recent Economics
How Place and Audience Matter
The Development of Financial Economics in France between the Mid-1970s and the Early 1980s
Public Science of the Savage Mind
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,36 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |