Fight against corruption, religious tolerance, and gender equality are among the important issues that need to be disseminated massively to all levels of society by the government, religious and political leaders, public figures as well as schools and educators. Corruption has ruined the most essential pillars of social justice; religious intolerance potentially threatens the nation unity; while gender inequality is against the principles of human rights. English lessons at schools have the potential to be developed in such a way that sustains and strengthens the efforts to create better Indonesia through the introduction of values and norms in favor of the fight against corruption, religious tolerance and gender equality. It is so because English lesson may present a wide array of topics through its reading, speaking, writing, even listening sections. This study is aimed at investigating how this potential is explored by curriculum and material developers –reflected on the books they wrote, and how those values and norms are presented on texts. This study is explorative which puts English school books as its objects. The population of the study is English school books distributed in Central Java. Samples are taken and serve as the focus of the analysis. The data are descriptively analyzed by employing CDA approach. The results of the study are useful for curriculum designers and materials developers especially in equipping their efforts to write English books which cover not only linguistic aspects but also values and norms.

        Kata kunci: values and norms, English school books, material development