High School Textbooks in Turkey from Teachers' and Students' Perspectives: The Case of History Textbooks

This study is part of a three-year-long research project supported by the Turkish Ministry of National Education. The project aims to investigate social studies teaching from many aspects such as curriculum, the teaching and learning process, textbooks and other instructional materials, student assessment, and the impact on students. This paper specifically focuses on the assessment of high school textbooks through teachers' and students' perspectives by using history textbooks as the subject for this case study. Two research questions guided the data collection and analysis: (1) How do teachers assess high school history textbooks in terms of their physical appearance, content selection and presentation, language, teaching and