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Eighth International Conference on Learning and Educational Media Caught in the Web or Lost in the Textbook? Edited by Éric Bruillard Bente Aamotsbakken Susanne V. Knudsen Mike Horsley Table of contents Introduction Éric Bruillard, Bente Aamotsbakken, Susanne V. Knudsen, Mike Horsley ................ 7 Keynotes, Theory and French sessions .....................................................13 The Textbook and after... Pierre Mœglin........................................................................................................... 15 What do we believe are the issues with text-based and other learning materials? Are we caught in the web or lost in the textbook? Alan Peacock and Ailie Cleghorn............................................................................. 35 Textbooks as a research challenge in computational linguistics Nadine Lucas............................................................................................................ 49 Intersectionality - A Theoretical Inspiration in the Analysis of Minority Cultures and Identities in Textbooks Susanne V. Knudsen ................................................................................................. 61 Central Scientific Views of the Present Situation of the Family and their Reflection in Schoolbooks for Civics in Germany Eva Matthes.............................................................................................................. 77 The ‘Personal Exhibition’ as an educational tool in a semi-formal learning setting Anne Kahr-Højland .................................................................................................. 87 The relation between the model reader/-s and the authentic reader/-s. The possibilities for identification when reading curricular texts Bente Aamotsbakken................................................................................................. 99 Les catalogues rétrospectifs de manuels scolaires sur internet, indispensables outils de recherche pour les historiens Paul Aubin.............................................................................................................. 109 Online services providing commercial contents in education. Which digital space for mediatized communication in school? Gérard Puimatto..................................................................................................... 115 Stakes and prospects of historical popularization books for children regarded as educational media Hélène Collet.......................................................................................................... 123 4 Table of contents Workshop 1: Changing Identities in a Global World............................133 The British Empire and Commonwealth in World War II: Selection and Omission in English History Textbooks Stuart Foster........................................................................................................... 135 History Textbooks Discourse on Identities and Borders: How to Investigate into the Missing Parts Janez Justin ............................................................................................................ 143 Citizenship and moral education in religious education textbooks Inga Balčiūnienė and Natalija Mažeikienė............................................................. 151 Prehistory and the Construction of a European Identity in German History Textbooks Today Miriam Sénécheau.................................................................................................. 159 Analysing Motherhood in Primary School Textbooks: The Case of Spain during the first two Ministries of Education of the Franco Dictatorship (1939-1956) Kira Mahamud........................................................................................................ 171 Peace in Times of Globalization: De-(constructing) Militaristic Identities in language and social studies textbooks in South Asia: the Case of Pakistan Muhammad Ayaz Naseem....................................................................................... 179 Worlds for Beginning Readers –Representations of “Homeland” and “Family” in Russian and Chukchi Textbooks for Early Reading Instruction since the 1960s Wendelin Sroka....................................................................................................... 187 Gender Issues and Indian Textbooks Kalplata Pandey ..................................................................................................... 201 Metaphors of listening in mother tongue textbooks in Norway Norunn Askeland .................................................................................................... 207 Workshop 2: Textbooks and Educational Media in the Learning Environment..............................................................................................215 What do subject teacher students learn about cooperative learning and problem solving in WebCT environments? 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