README file
Data Set Title: “CATCH-EyoU: Representation of the EU and Youth Active Citizenship in Educational Contexts: Textbook Analysis: Italy”
Data Set Creator: Elvira Cicognani, University of Bologna, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8240-6159; Isabel Menezes, University of Porto, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9063-3773
Data Set Contributors:  Cinzia Albanesi, University of Bologna https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8240-6159
Data Set Contact Person: Elvira Cicognani, University of Bologna elvira.cicognani@unibo.it, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8240-6159
Data Set License: this data set is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Publication Year: 2018
Project Info: CATCH EyoU (Constructing AcTive CitizensHip with European YOUth: Policies, Practices, Challenges and Solutions), funded by European Union, Horizon 2020 Programme. Grant Agreement num. 649538; http://www.catcheyou.eu/.  
Data set Contents
The data set consists of:
•	1 textual qualitative file saved in .rtf format 
“DATA_SET_CATCH-EyoU_Representation of the EU and Youth Active Citizenship in Educational Contexts_Textbook Analysis_Italy_WP6.rtf”
•	1 README file 
“README_CATCH-EyoU_Representation of the EU and Youth Active Citizenship in Educational Contexts_Textbook Analysis_Italy_WP6”
Data set Documentation
•	Abstract
This dataset consists of the underlying data of the following scientific paper accepted for publication by the Journal of Social Science Education (http://www.jsse.org/):
Albanesi, Cinzia (2018). Citizenship Education In Italian Textbooks. How Much Space Is There For Europe And Active Citizenship? Journal of Social Science Education. 
This data has been collected from six upper secondary education books, from the disciplines of History, Citizenship & Constitution, and English as a Foreign Language (EFL). 
This data is made available for open access in compliance with H2020 Program regulation, following the guidelines stipulated by the Data Management Plan adopted by the CATCH-EyoU research project.
•	Data sources 
The analysed books are representative of the fields of ESL, Contemporary History, Citizenship & Constitution for 12 grade students, selected according to the criteria of being the best-sellers.
A.	DIALOGO CON LA STORIA E L'ATTUALITA' 3 - EDIZIONE MISTA l’età contemporanea + atlante + espansione web 3 RCS EDUCATION.IT (ITALIAN PUBLISHER)
B.	MILLEDUEMILA - UN MONDO AL PLURALE 3 - il novecento e il duemila + guida all'esame + espansione web 3 EDITORE RIZZOLI (ITALIAN PUBLISHER)
C.	CITTADINANZA E COSTITUZIONE (COLLEGATO A MILLEDUEMILA) EDITORE RIZZOLI (ITALIAN PUBLISHER)
D.	CITTADINANZA E COSTITUZIONE  ZANICHELLI EDITORE (ITALIAN PUBLISHER)
E.	PERFORMER. PERFORMER CULTURE & LITERATURE 3 LDM 3 con DVD-ROM  The Twentieth Century and the Present EDITORE ZANICHELLI (ITALIAN PUBLISHER)
F.	IN BUSINESS DIGITAL EDITION EDITORE PEARSON (NON ITALIAN PUBLISHER)
•	Methodologies 
Data collection was developed using a specifically designed analytical grid (Ribeiro; Ferreira & Menezes, 2016). The grid was tested and applied by national research teams - from Portugal, Czechia, Estonia, Germany, Italy and Sweden - participating to Catch-EyoU project.