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Dupeyron, Bruno – Curriculum Journal, 2009
The middle of the 1990s saw the creation of a French-German-Swiss history textbook supported by the European Commission. Disseminated to school instructors in the Upper Rhine, it received generally positive reviews, but ended up on the dusty shelves of school libraries. This result was due to several factors, which are analysed in this article.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, History Instruction, Information Dissemination
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Keysar, Boaz – Cognitive Psychology, 1994
Data from 4 experiments in which 136 college students read a situation description and took the perspective of an uninformed addressee to determine whether a speaker was sarcastic suggest that readers use perspective-irrelevant information. The finding poses a problem for theories of language that assume the use of only relevant information. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Attitudes, College Students, Context Effect