AU - Silvia, Caravita. AU - Valente, Adriana AU - Daniela, Luzi AU - Pace, Paul AU - Valanides, Nicos AU - Khalil, Iman AU - Berthou, Guillemette AU - Kozan-Naumescu, Adrienne AU - Clément, Pierre AB - Knowledge about ecology and environmental education (EE) constitutes a basic tool for promoting a sustainable future, and was a target area of the BIOHEAD-CITIZEN Project. School textbooks were considered as representative sources of evidence in terms of ecology and environmental education (EE), and were used for comparison among the countries participating in BIOHEAD- CITIZEN Project. The main goal of the analysis was to highlight the implicit and explicit values conveyed both by images and text in the respective textbooks from each country. This paper presents the theoretical background that guided the process of designing and development of several grids that were then used for analyzing samples of textbooks from 19 different countries. The paper also provides brief information indicating how EE is contextualized within each participating country’s curriculum. (Published Abstract) http://search.shamaa.org/abstract_en.gif ID - 118388 OP - pp. 97-116 PB - Hatfield International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE) 2008 PP - Hatfield International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE) 2008 T1 - Construction and validation of textbook analysis grids for ecology and environmental education [Article] UL - 1 http://search.shamaa.org/fulltext.gif http://search.shamaa.org/PDF/Articles/FC/sei_2008-v19-n2_097-116_eng_authsub.pdf Full text (PDF) YR - Hatfield International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE) 2008