Expectations About Physics Textbooks: A Literature Review in the Context of Cultural Heritage

To gain an overview of expectations about physics textbooks, research papers about physics education are analyzed qualitatively. Content-related, form-related, and action-related expectations about physics textbooks are summarized in inductive categories. In the analyzed papers, most expectations have been stated normatively by education researchers. Thus, expectations by curriculum-makers, authors, publishers, teachers, and students need to be studied more extensively in the future.
The importance of these expectations is underlined by the fact that they are related to cultural heritage in many ways. More generally, science education is strongly connected with cultural heritage, which needs to be appreciated and preserved.