Introduction

Educators need to select, adapt, and make use of different educational resources in their daily practices of teaching. Curricular developments, increased digitalization, interest in place-based learning, and, lately, the Covid-19 situation, will perhaps lead to even more attention being paid to the use of resources – as well as to different types of learning resources. Learning materials, educational media, educational resources, designs for learning, pedagogical texts, educational texts – these are some of the terms surrounding the field. Today's policies, both nationally and internationally, often focus on the future, and there might be inherent presentism in the discourse on skills. Some of the authors aim at exploring and discussing the didactical value and possibilities of concrete materials and teaching methodologies, while others look at how political contexts influence the availability and the use of different resources.