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EEPG Best Schoolbooks Awards 2003
This is the fourth year of the EEPG Best Schoolbooks Awards. The aim of this award is to promote excellence and quality in schoolbook publishing, and to offer recognition to the best publishers, authors, designers, editors
and graphic designers of these books within each European country.
Each participating EEPG member sent a copy of the schoolbook they wished
to enter to all other participating EEPG members, along with a letter
outlining why this is their best book. The candidate books were also sent to
the European Quality Team (a group which has developed a Quality
Guide for the Design and Evaluation of Educational Materials for the
Commission of the European Communities). The votes of the participating EEPG
members were given the weight of 75% whereas the votes of the Quality Team
had a weight of 25% when calculating the final scores. All members have
rated each book under the headings of Content/Syllabus, Layout/design, and
Price/marketing. The total number received determined the winners. The
winner received a Gold Certificate, second place a Silver Certificate and
third place a Bronze certificate at the Frankfurt Book Fair at the EEPG
stand, Hall 6.0 A 905, at 17.00 on October 8, the first day of the Fair – as
in the previous years. Furthermore the books ranked 4 to 7 received a
special merit award. Who are the winners of the EEPG Best Schoolbooks Awards 2003?
Gold Certificate
Rokus Publishing House, Slovenia: "Svet iz besed 7" ("The World of
Words 7") incl. CD (Slovenian literature textbook for the 7th
grade); Authors: M. Blažić, B. Bošnjak, J. Kenda, P. Svetina and M. Žveglić This book is the first reading book in Slovenia that effectively combines
a reading book and a workbook. Every pupil receives a CD-ROM enclosed. Which
contains 12 video clips of Slovenian wirters and numerous audio clips of
texts from the book. The structure of the book and the interactive way of
learning literature is the result of a wide market research investigating
the opnions of hundreds of teachers about the way a reading book should look
like. The well thought-out and original layout, together with lavish
illustrations, engenders enthusiasm for various categories of texts. Finally
a great variation in approaches to exercises and tasks for raising the
awareness of language and texts challenge to users to work individually or
in groups with te material. High quality aspects include transparency,
consistency, attractiveness, generativeness and participation.
Silver Certificate
Gyldendal Undervisning, Norway: "ABC-Boka" ("ABC-Book") – Norwegian
ABC book for Primary School; Authors: Kåre Kverndokken and Trine Solstad
Bronze Certificate
Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur, Sweden: "Unga filosofer" ("Young
Philosophers") – Anthology for the Upper Secondary School; Authors: Olof
Franck and team of authors This anthology deals with philosophical questions about epistemology,
morality and meaning. The main innovation of this book – apart from a very
original layout – lies in the fact that contributors are actual young and
currently active Swedish philosophers presenting texts that concern their
own areas of study. Thereby the eternal questions of philosophy are
formulated and addressed form a genuine modern perspective. Each essay is
accompanied by discussion topics that can be worked with individually or in
groups. High quality aspects include reliability, attractiveness,
generativeness and socialisation. Merit Awards Texto Editora, Portugal: 705 Azul - Subject: Philosophy; Authors: Fátima Alves, José Aredes and José Carvalho Veritas Verlag, Austria: Friends 1; Subject: English; Authors: S. Katzböck, S. Martinjak, M. Rosenberg and J. Wingate
Lehrmittelverlag des Kantons Zürich, Switzerland: Schweizer Weltatlas;
Subject: Geography; Authors: Ernst Spiess and team of authors
Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedgagogiczne S.A.
One publishing house per European country is eligible for membership of
the EEPG – the European Educational Publishers Group. These publishing
houses specialise in the field of educational literature, schoolbooks,
textbooks and other educational materials. The EEPG was established in 1991 with 12 member publishing houses from 12
European countries. Today, the Group has 22 members from 22 European
countries. Please find attached a list of the EEPG members 2003. Decisions on important issues are made by the General Assembly,
which has its annual meetings on the day before the opening of the Frankfurt
Book Fair. EEPG Web Site For more information, meet the EEPG on the Web: www.eepg.org
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