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Education and textbooks have traditionally been standard objects of research in the history of science, technology, and medicine. However, they have often remained marginal in the formulation of large historiographical questions. In the last decades, the work of some historians of science has challenged this state of affairs. STEP has promoted a distinctive focus on education and textbooks, com...

This article aims to provide an overview of the historiography of psychology textbooks. In the overview, I identify and describe in detail two strands of writing histories of introductory textbooks of psychology and juxtapose them to provide an integrated historiography of textbooks in psychology. One strand is developed by teachers of psychology-first as a general approach for investigating te...

Electronic books traditionally haven’t been popular with the public but electronic textbooks have been starting to gain traction on college campuses. Textbook publishers and faculty have been experimenting with using them in the classroom with mixed success. Students seem less than enamored with electronic textbooks. This research uses a survey to examine student preferences regarding paper tex...

This study analyzed the information seeking behaviour of the teachers and students at College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In this study, data collected from 150 teachers and students by administering questionnaires on their information seeking and requirements of the College of Engineering, indicates that guidance in the use of library resources and se...

This article is dedicated to Alfred Sindik (1890-1976), the first Croat specialised in epidemiology. As a student he volunteered at the Institute of Hygiene in Zagreb in its early days. He took his degree from the University of Zagreb School of Medicine in 1929. For many years, he worked at the Institute of Epidemiology, of which ten as its director, having succeeded Dr Černozubov on this posit...

In textbooks the different topics are introduced in an order which is (supposedly) the best way for learning the subject at hand. Once the student masters the subject, most textbooks are not well suited for use as reference material, because related topics are not located near each other. This paper presents a framework for self-modifying hyperdocuments. A textbook, delivered as on-line hyperte...

This paper reports part of a study of the ways in which students’ everyday experiences are used in pre-university chemistry curricula in a centralised and a decentralised education system, in South Africa and England, respectively. The changing role of contextualisation over the last 15 years is explored, in the ideal, formal and perceived curriculum. Analysis of curriculum documents including ...