Images in Textbooks and Their Role in History Teaching. Design of an Analysis Tool

The aim of this paper is to show the design an instrument for analyzing the images in the textbooks of Social Sciences, Geography and History, the methodological process and the first results obtained. For this issue we have chosen those images present in the textbooks of 4th ESO produced by three major publishers in Spain. We analyzed the use of iconography in the first units of this academic year to check whether the image as a teaching aid helps the students to expand their knowledge of history. The first results show that the most common images in history books are paintings and their function is mostly aesthetic