Exploring Uncertainty and Human Agency in California Science Textbooks
Textbooks provide a key source of information for teachers and students alike on a range of topics. Because they often serve to anchor lessons, the perspectives they espouse can be enormously, and at times disproportionately, influential in terms of how they affect beliefs and knowledge about ideas. Therefore, it is important to understand how textbooks convey scientific content, particularly with regard to issues that some may perceive to be controversial, such as climate change.