The School Textbook

A study of the school textbook grounded in historical and comparative perspectives. The approach is broadly chronological, revealing changes in the theory and practice of textbook production and use. The book focuses largely on three associated subjects - geography, history and social studies.

William E. Marsden is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Liverpool. His publications include Unequal Educational Provision in England and Wales (1987); Educating the Respectable; A Study of Fleet Road Board School, 1879-1903 (1991); (editor, with R.K. Goodenow), The City and Education in Four Nations (1992); (edited with J. Hughes) Primary School Geography (1994); Geography 11-16 Rekindling Good Practice (1995); and An Anglo-Welsh Dynasty; The Adams Family from the 1840s to the 1930s (1997) among other titles.