
Textbook Policies in Asia
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- BOXES
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 GETTING THE POLICY RATIONALE RIGHT
- Explicit Functions
- Implicit Functions
- 3 GOOD TEX TBOOK POLICY SUPPORTS HIGH-QUALITY TEACHING AND LEARNING
- 4 WRITING SYLLABUSES, PREPARING FOR TEX TBOOKS
- 5 TEX TBOOKS AND EX AMINATIONS: THE CHICKEN AND THE EGG
- 6 THE LANGUAGE OF LEARNING
- 7 TEXTBOOK PLANNING, WRITING , AND DEVE LOPMENT
- 8 GOVERNMENT AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN TEXTBOOK DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY
- 9 MULTIPLE-TEXTBOOK SYSTEMS: THE GREAT LEAP
- 10 ENSURING QUALITY: EVALUATION, APPROVAL, AND SELECTION
- Submission of Textbook Proposals
- Evaluation Criteria
- Evaluation Panels
- Textbook Selection
- 11 THE SOCIAL MESSAGE
- 12 MANAGING THE COSTS
- Free Provision, Parental Purchase, and Textbook Loans
- Single Use and Reuse
- Textbook Rental Systems
- 13 GETTING THE TEX TBOOKS TO THE USERS
- The Costs of Delivery
- The Role of Intermediaries (Booksellers)
- 14 TEX TBOOK MANUFACTURING
- Specifications
- 15 NOT JUST TEXTBOOKS
- Workbooks
- Reading Books
- 16 WHAT'S SO SPECIAL ABOUT COPYRIGHT?
- Intellectual Property
- Piracy
- 17 CONCLUSIONS
- APPENDIX 1: EVIDENCE OF THE IMPACT OF TEXTBOOKS
- APPENDIX 2: THE DIGITAL DIMENSION
- APPENDIX 3: PRICES AND PRICE CONTROLS: AN OVERVIEW
- REFERENCES
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