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Drama Education and Second Language Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

Drama Education and Second Language Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In recent years the contribution of drama to second language learning has grown internationally as a field of interest to both teachers and researchers. The potential for drama to provide strong social contexts for learning, to provide opportunities for the learner to embody the target language and to motivate students’ desire to communicate have been increasingly recognized as fruitful areas of inquiry. This book provides a brief historical perspective on the development of this interest before presenting a range of examples drawn from recent research projects led by those who are themselves experienced as drama and second language teachers. Drawing on a variety of theoretical perspective...

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-01-03
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  • Publisher: Beacon Press

A New York Times Best Seller "Essential reading for all adults who work with black and brown young people...Filled with exceptional intellectual sophistication and necessary wisdom for the future of education."—Imani Perry, National Book Award Winner author of South To America An award-winning educator offers a much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe the landscape of urban education for the better Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color, Dr. Christopher Emdin has merged his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America. He takes to task the per...

Teaching Fairly in an Unfair World, 2nd Edition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 199

Teaching Fairly in an Unfair World, 2nd Edition

This era of “fake” news demands a deeper curriculum that questions inconsistencies of facts and opinions in various texts and images. This timely revision of a ground-breaking book offers opportunities for students to connect with social justice issues through inventive language exploration and the active examination of all forms of media. It encourages teachers to evaluate their core teaching beliefs and recognize the realities of their students’ lives for a richer understanding of our complex world. A glossary of more than fifty strategies, along with reproducible pages for easy classroom use, complement this essential resource.

Improving Urban Science Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Improving Urban Science Education

This book is a result of my childhood questions about myself as I wondered how did I appear to be myself suddenly with hardly any past recollection and I wondered about my understanding of my own experiences in my life and things of that nature. I wanted to look beyond the 'Creator's wish' part, a prevalent mode of resignation of the thought process, to find a logical and scientific explanation by myself through reading. Eventually I developed the wisdom that the answer lies in the understanding of the brain. When I realized that it is my brain that is somehow generating all my experiences for me, it led to a pretty engrossing experience trying to understand it since. Since this is a book ab...

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2220

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1972
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Doing Authentic Inquiry to Improve Learning and Teaching
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 367

Doing Authentic Inquiry to Improve Learning and Teaching

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-12-07
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Doing Authentic Inquiry to Improve Learning and Teaching consists of 18 chapters, and 19 authors from 4 countries. The book is suited for use by educators, researchers and classroom practitioners involved in teaching and learning, teacher education, and policy. All chapters are grounded in urban contexts, but are broadly applicable. Multilogical research highlights uses of sociocultural theory, authentic, event-oriented, interpretive inquiry, narrative, and willingness to learn from difference. Methodologies are historically constituted, emergent, contingent, and participatory, embracing collaborative, and contemplative practices, and value of many voices and diverse meaning systems. Readers experience research that is potentially both personally and professionally transformative and applicable to today’s challenges. Contributors are: Jennifer D. Adams, Konstantinos Alexakos, Arnau Amat, Marissa E. Bellino, Mitch Bleier, Corinna Yolanda Brathwaite, Olga Calderon, Katelin Corbett, Amy DeFelice, Gene Fellner, Helen Kwah, Manny Lopez, Anna Malyukova, Kate E. O'Hara, Malgorzata Powietrzyńska, Isabel Sellas, Kenneth Tobin, and Yau Yan Wong.

Contemplative Practices for Sustaining Wellness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382

Contemplative Practices for Sustaining Wellness

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-09-12
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Contemplative Practices for Sustaining Wellness: priorities for research and education presents what we learned from research on wellness, intense emotions and health issues together with uses of complementary medicine, mindfulness practices, and interventions for self-care, and caring for others.

Transforming Undergraduate Science Teaching
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 520

Transforming Undergraduate Science Teaching

Annotation Contains 17 contributions which together aim to speed the process of epistemological reform of undergraduate science teaching in order to align it with the social constructivist reform goals of the science education community. Chapters include impressionistic accounts, studies of recent transformative teaching endeavors, and radical new approaches to learner-sensitive science teaching. Of likely interest to graduate teaching students, science educators, and the educational discourse community. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Doing Educational Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 482

Doing Educational Research

The authors explore a variety of topics from methodologies such as ethnography, action research, hermeneutics, historiography, psychoanalysis, literary criticism to issues such as social theory, epistemology, and paradigms. [Back cover].

By Authority. The Navy List Corr. to the End of December (etc.) Published Quarterly
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170