EDUC 451: Research Workshop on Quantitative Analyses of Textbook Content

Course Description

This course is intended as a small research workshop for doctoral students interested in using textbooks as data for quantitative social science research. There is an emphasis on comparative work (i.e. looking between states/provinces or countries) and social science textbooks (i.e. history, civics, social studies, geography), but some flexibility to study a single context and/or other subjects (e.g. science, math) depending on data availability. Concretely, the aim is to finish the course with a rough draft of a research project that can be developed for future publication.