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Kropman, Marc; van Boxtel, Carla; van Drie, Jannet – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2020
School history textbooks provide an important source of information for learners of history. Textbook narratives of a nation's past often present a limited frame of reference, which impedes the aim of teaching history from multiple perspectives. This article examines the representation of the Dutch Revolt in two Dutch and two Flemish history…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Textbooks, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Orton, Thomas – Studies in American Indian Literatures, 2006
It was most likely in the spring of 1966 that the late American Indian novelist James Welch wrote his first novel, predating his first published fiction by eight years. The titleless, hand-corrected typescript, stored in his Missoula home for many years, is 114 pages long and unfinished. The book is playful and experimental the way warm-ups…
Descriptors: Novels, Figurative Language, American Indians, Literary Genres
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McKeough, Anne; Genereux, Randy; Jeary, Joan – High Ability Studies, 2006
Narrative understanding has been identified as a primary mode of human thought that informs us about the nature, causes and consequences of human actions and interactions and, as such, underlies social knowledge. Although considerable work has focused on exceptional narrative ability in children aged 12 years old or younger, to date there have…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Adolescents, Language Usage, Linguistics