Construction and application of grids and codebook in iterated qualitative investigations on school manuals
Abstract
Iterated investigations of our research group were aimed at unveiling the representations of migrations and migrants conveyed by the text and images of History and Geography school manuals for Secondary School. This report makes explicit the process for the elaboration of the methodological tools, grids and codebook, adequate to capture the multidimensionality of the representations and to make more transparent the coding and interpretation of qualitative data. The definition of the thematic categories for the analysis has been oriented by the KVP model proposed by Pierre Clèment who calls the attention on the central role that the interplay between knowledge, values and social practices has in shaping conceptions. The implied/promoted values in the narratives of manuals become ways of viewing the phenomenon of migration influential on the personal conducts of the students. The construction of the grids had many elements in common with the methodology applied in the qualitative text analysis and with the analytical approach shared by many Authors in the Critical Discourse Analysis that is aimed to highlight how discourse can build, maintain and legitimate social inequalities. The socalled living codebook documented the iterative, collaborative and reflective practice of the research group engaged in the qualitative analysis; its importance goes beyond the achievement of a higher reliability among the coders: it reveals their needs of clarification, how consensus was reached to trace the limits of the codes and concepts, how the meanings highlighted in text and images are related with what matters to show with the codification.Downloads
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2026-05-21 — Updated on 2026-05-22
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Caravita, S. ., Tudisca, V., Boccara, V. ., & Valente, A. (2026). Construction and application of grids and codebook in iterated qualitative investigations on school manuals. IRPPS Working Papers. Retrieved from http://epub.irpps.cnr.it/index.php/wp/article/view/337 (Original work published May 21, 2026)
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