How Is Reliability Useful? Collaboration in Social Studies Textbook Research

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گروه آموزش بین الملل، دانشگاه علوم تربیتی هونگ کونک.

10.22034/jpiut.2025.21114

چکیده

Experience and subjectivity influence how texts are read, with reading involving “filling in the blanks”. This impacts the usefulness of intercoder reliability exercises in collaborative textbook analysis. Specifically, scholars’ individual backgrounds limit possibilities for substantive and meaningful intercoder reliability, particularly in international, cross-cultural, and multicultural settings. In this case, reliability is a problematic goal in textbook content analysis, possibly precluding substantive recognition of reader subjectivity—of researchers as well as students and teachers. In contrast, we argue that collaboration in textbook research can reveal the multifaceted nature of texts and generate multi-perspectival interpretations which are more meaningful in diverse contexts.

کلیدواژه‌ها


عنوان مقاله [English]

How Is Reliability Useful? Collaboration in Social Studies Textbook Research

نویسنده [English]

  • Liz Jackson
Department of International Education, Karen Lo Eugene Chuang Professor in Diversity and Equity, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
چکیده [English]

Experience and subjectivity influence how texts are read, with reading involving “filling in the blanks”. This impacts the usefulness of intercoder reliability exercises in collaborative textbook analysis. Specifically, scholars’ individual backgrounds limit possibilities for substantive and meaningful intercoder reliability, particularly in international, cross-cultural, and multicultural settings. In this case, reliability is a problematic goal in textbook content analysis, possibly precluding substantive recognition of reader subjectivity—of researchers as well as students and teachers. In contrast, we argue that collaboration in textbook research can reveal the multifaceted nature of texts and generate multi-perspectival interpretations which are more meaningful in diverse contexts.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Reliability
  • Textbooks Analyzes
  • Reading
  • Collaboration
  • Reader
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