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With learning being the prime objective of education, a crucial part of the process is student attention to stimuli, or information provided for processing. Attention is a multidimensional concept, influenced by numerous factors. A key linking one, engulfing the academic literature over the past 30 years, is motivation. Theories abound and there are recurring literature references to how this study area should be unified meaningfully, with associated areas like attention. Motivated attention is in its operational infancy and multicultural aspects of this process have yet to surface in the literature.
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Sage, L. (2017). Motivated Attention in the Multicultural Classroom. In: Paradoxes in Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-185-8_4
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