This article investigates the health and environment issue as presented in an educational collection on science for Elementary Education based on the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis. The gender and pre-gender concepts were used to research the actional meaning of the text through which three main groups of generic structures were identified: descriptive, explanatory, and narrative. By analyzing these structures, one can find action modes that discipline social identities, social relations, and knowledge and belief systems.
health; environment; science education; teaching materials
