The textbook task as a genre

Schools today face the challenge of preparing students to live, work, and prosper in a rapidly changing world. As response this global challenge, Norway has adopted national curriculum focusing on development 21st-century skills. In study, we investigate if how tasks science language arts textbooks upper-secondary school have changed after reform. We conduct content analysis 5,067 compare them published before reform, which analysed two previous studies. The results show only marginal change each subject, indicating that do not present with sufficient opportunities practice competences highlighted new curriculum. possible explanation regarding why textbook Norway—as well as number other countries—appear so little over time, advance hypothesis formulation is influenced constrained by culturally specific genre norms. These norms may represent implementation change, it therefore important raise awareness tasks.