Knowledge structures in elementarytextbooks

Teaching is traditionally viewed as a knowledge building activity. Knowledge is transferred from a textbook to the student's mind as she reads and understands each textbook construct. Textbooks typically produce knowledge units in a structured way thus finally resulting in knowledge structures in her mind. Structure building is systematically carried out in textbooks using knowledge building constructs. In this paper, we have investigated knowledge structures and knowledge building constructs used in elementary textbooks and discuss preliminary results obtained.