Methodologies of Textbook Analysis Used to Date

Schoolbook research is incomplete in at least three ways: theoretically; empirically; and methodologically. It is possible to distinguish three types of schoolbook research: process-oriented schoolbook research; product-oriented schoolbook research; and reception-oriented schoolbook research. Schoolbook research is an interdisciplinary study which can be subdivided with regard to its subject content into the following dimensions: scientific theory; design; subject knowledge; subject theory and methods; and educational science. The following methodological problems can be considered as controversial or as yet unsolved: relations between quantitative and qualitative schoolbook research; relations between empirical and hermeneutic (interpretative) schoolbook research; relations between explicit and implicit schoolbook content; relations between status quo analyses and deficit analyses; and criteria for the assessment of investigations in the field of schoolbook research. Of interest there is the schoolbook as a teaching medium and as a means of visual communication.