The point of the textbook is that it is instructional. So long as the book
is adequately instructional (and so long as it doesnt violate any other
policies), the format and presentation of the material seems mostly
irrelevant to me. Allowing a young children's book to be written as an
allegory or as a fable or other quasi-fictional device is far different from
opening up wikibooks as a general-purpose fiction repository.
--Andrew Whitworth
From: "KH" <kathy(a)teachernotes.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia textbook discussion <textbook-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: "'Wikimedia textbook discussion'"
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Subject: Re: [Textbook-l] NPOV and NOR as a local or a
globalpoliciesonWikibooks?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:30:58 -0700
I read the link thoroughly. I can see a gap in your definition: A reading
textbook used in the elementary school level. All texts at very early
grades are fiction to motivate and relate to very young readers. Plus
early
grades are still learning sounds so you have to make up stories that
contain
only sounds that have been learned. So the definition is most definitely
not complete. You would not find an early reader on the fiction bookshelf
at
a store. They are purchased as a textbook.
Not to be a welt on your tush but I am not convinced of the definition of
what a wikibook is.
-Kathy
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