Timeline for What subjects benefit from textbook editions?
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| Dec 21, 2014 at 9:44 | comment | added | Jessica B | Note: I have selected this as the accepted answer not because it is most correct but because it gives roughly the most specific answer (of those so far). | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 9:41 | vote | accept | Jessica B | ||
| Dec 18, 2014 at 14:51 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | @Joe: I agree it doesn't require a new edition (the Q was which subjects benefit from new editions). Publishers could certainly just print updates covering these events, tied into the theory that likely didn't change. Software companies issue patches and don't require you to buy and install a whole new installation to deal with one bug. So why don't textbook publishers follow this "patch/update" model? Answer: because they can. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 14:43 | comment | added | Joe | But does that actually require a new textbook? I have plenty of classes where the teacher assigned journal and news articles to supplement the textbook readings each week. In some cases they were recent articles, but not always ... but they always were directly related to the chapter(s) assigned from the textbook. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 14:55 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | "This would be ancient history for them" - if that's a problem then they're going to be in real trouble when they're asked to consider the South Sea bubble or tulip mania ;-) But sure, like you say, students don't just want to come out knowing the theory, they also want to know how it applies to the examples they're familiar with from the news. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 8:43 | history | answered | Stephan Kolassa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |