Ways of Using Textbooks and Digital Resources by Teachers and Students in the Lower Secondary Schools

• Authors: Iva Červenková , Marek Václavík , Zuzana Sikorová

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents a research study on using teaching resources at lower secondary schools in the Moravian-Silesian Region. With regard to the massive inclusion of digital resources and learning materials of an electronic nature, the research aimed to find out which educational resources are used in teaching and how. The methods of use were deduced based on the activities the teachers induce in the lessons through these resources. A qualitatively oriented research design was used, based on in-depth semi-structured interviews with 15 lower secondary school teachers who had different lengths of experience and taught different subjects. It was found that all teachers still used the core textbook but supplemented it with other printed or digital textual resources. It was possible to describe how the teachers worked with textbooks and digital resources and capture specific styles in which they initiated instructional activities with printed and digital texts.

Keywords

EN

teaching resources; educational media; digital resources; textbooks

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 71
• Pages: 24-34

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Iva Červenková

• University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000000258797345

author

Marek Václavík

• University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000000294788841

author

Zuzana Sikorová

• University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000000239304963

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.23.71.1.02

Biblioteka Nauki

2191747