摘要:此研究探究台湾55年来(1956~2010)与教科书有关的博硕士论文1263篇,整理其社会背景、研究概况与趋势,期藉此建立教科书研究发展史的基本资料,并寻找对教科书理论与实务有意义的启示。发现1990年代后期起的教科书研究蓬勃发展,与教育主管部门对教科书采取松绑政策有密切关联。这波教改的特征有四:(1)政治自由化在前,教育自由化在后,教科书编审选用的自由度大增;(2)改革推动力量来自教育界内外、学界与民间,包括许多与教科书研究相关的新设机构/学会/期刊/奖项;(3)课程改革是这波教育改革的核心,教科书编审选用受到关注;(4)教育主管部门负责人更换频繁,不利改革成效,教科书的许多争议点成为研究焦点。自1984年起台湾教科书研究可谓迈入专业化阶段,因与过去相较,这类论文所采方法更严谨、有系统──清晰说明分析架构与类目、信效度等,以达科学研究的要求。而1999年起教科书相关论文大量涌现,缘由有三:(1)教科书自由化政策;(2)研究法引介;(3)学界新力量共同推动。此外,此研究梳理了55年来的研究趋势,分由学习领域、学制阶段、研究主题、研究方法等面向说明。%T his article explore 1263 D octor and Master’s theses associated with textbooks in Taiwan for 55 years (1956~2010), the author organized their social background, overviewand trend, to establish the basic inform ation of the developm ent history of textbook research and look for the m eaningful revelation to the textbook theory and practice. It found that since the late 1990s boom ing textbook research, with the governm ent to loosen policy on textbooks is closely related. These educational reform s have four characteristics,first,political liberalization is in the form er,and education lib-eralization is in the latter,the degree of freedom in com pilation and exam ination increases;secondly,the driving force for reform com es from inside and outside the education sector,the academ ia and folk,including m any textbooks research re-lated newinstitutions, association, journals and awards;thirdly, curriculum reform is the core of these educational re-form s,textbook com pilation,exam ination and selection are paid m ore attention to;fourthly,education m inister changed fre-quently is not conducive to the reform results,textbooks point of m any disputes becom e the research focus. Since 1984, Taiwan’s textbook research enters into the professional stage;com pared with the past, the m ethods used in those theses are m ore rigorous, system atic, they clearly illustrate and analyze fram ework and category, reliability and validity, etc. to reach the requirem ent of scientific research. The textbook related papers em erge in large quantities since 1999, there are three reasons, textbook liberalization policy, research m ethod introducing, and the newforce of education sector prom ote together. In addition,this paper com bed the research trend of 55 years,by learning areas,educational system stages,re-search topics,research m ethods for description.