Criterial Analysis of Educational Knowledge in Physiology Textbooks for Medical Students

ABSTRACTEducational knowledge as a part of a textbook implicates a great responsibility about students' ideas what is necessary to be achieved as a result of a discipline in high education. So it is important lecturers to have a criterial construct to analyze and, if necessary, to change some aspects in educational knowledge. We suggest a kind of criterial frame that consists of three basic units: unit of educational needs; unit of educational aims and logico-technological unit. These units are hierarchically connected. In order to apply this criterial construct in analyzing educational knowledge in physiology textbooks for medical students we traced them through the other three levels that are related with physiology discipline: frameworks of high education, of medicine education and of physiology education between tradition and challenges.Applying this criterial construct to the subject of smooth muscles have shown that understanding structure and function of smooth muscles is important milestone in stu...