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Figure 9.7 Page from a science textbook
historically specific is shown by the fact that thirty or forty years earlier,
textbooks for the same age-group used writing for the curricular content. That
which had to be represented about the curriculum was represented through the
mode of writing. Of course, in order to be able to do that, writing had to be, and
