Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
Abstract School textbooks are assumed to be important socializers. However, because of the complexity and methodological stumbling blocks involved in the subject matter, the impact of specific textbooks and the interaction between pupils and textbooks have seldom been studied. I discuss the methodological problems in explorations of the role of school textbooks as agents of socialization, and suggest methods for exploring and understanding the dynamic interaction between textbooks and their readers. Notes Veronika Kalmus is a research fellow in the Department of Journalism and Communication, University of Tartu, 18 Ülikooli St., 50090 Tartu, Estonia; e‐mail: vkalmus@ut.ee. Her research interests centre on the school textbook as an agent of socialization, the 'hidden curriculum' of educational media, and the emerging media society in Estonia. She has published in Trames: A Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences and Discourse e‐mail: vkalmus@ut.ee. Her research interests centre on the school textbook as an agent of socialization, the 'hidden curriculum' of educational media, and the emerging media society in Estonia. She has published in Trames: A Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences and Discourse & Society.
Вероника Калмус (Sat,) studied this question.