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Language and Learning
This revised and updated edition provides a practical and readable explanation of how language can be understood and significant implications for classroom and teaching practices.
Timor-Leste: Transforming Education Through Partnership in a Small Post-Conflict State
This book argues that development aid in small post-conflict states, particularly in the educational field, benefits from a commitment to a shared vision, fostering co-operative relationships and working within local capacity, credibility, and attentiveness to immediate and longer-term development goals. It uses Timor-Leste as its case study of a faith-based partnership in the development of the Instituto Católico para a Formação de Professores (ICFP) at Baucau. The people of what was then East Timor voted overwhelmingly for independence in 1999 and the nation building, including reforming education, in this post-conflict small state began. The book reports how, through the commitment of ...
1001 Ways of Seeing
How do we see art works? How do we see artefacts? How do we see our surroundings? How do we see the world? This book opens up a worldwide dialogue between ten experts, from Japan to Brazil, from South Africa to Germany. It provides a fascinating insight into the different cultures of seeing and learning to see. It also offers a deeper understanding of the differences that divide us and the similarities that connect us. This book marks an important step towards transcultural art education.
Future Directions in Literacy
To make a difference to future generations of students, we need to take the research out of the classroom and make it the centre of informed debate. This publication is a step towards achieving that goal.
International Handbook of Research on Children's Literacy, Learning and Culture
The International Handbook of Research in Children's Literacy, Learning and Culture presents an authoritative distillation of current global knowledge related to the field of primary years literacy studies. Features chapters that conceptualize, interpret, and synthesize relevant research Critically reviews past and current research in order to influence future directions in the field of literacy Offers literacy scholars an international perspective that recognizes and anticipates increasing diversity in literacy practices and cultures
Language and Teaching
This fifth edition provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the nature and function of language and language learning and its implications for teaching. Marie Emmit & Matthew Zbaracki, Australian Catholic University; Linda Komesaroff, formerly Deakin University; John Pollock, formerly RMIT.
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This Close to Okay
'This Close to Okay hits the ground running. Cross-Smith writes tenderly about the trial and error of intimacy and draws you in with enormous warmth and control' - Raven Leilani, author of LUSTER On a rainy October night, therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home from work when she spots a man standing at the edge of a bridge. Without a second thought, Tallie pulls over and convinces him to join her for a cup of coffee. Eventually, he agrees to come back to her house, where he finally shares his name: Emmett. Over the course of the emotionally charged weekend that follows, Tallie makes it her mission to provide a safe space for Emmett. But he isn't the only one who needs healing-and they bot...
Language and Learning
This revised and updated edition of Language and Learning offers teachers and those interested in the topic an explicit, articulate explanation of how language can be understood. The insights that teachers gain into the way they use language themselves will have significant implications for classroom teaching practices. This idea is central to the book's approach. In a practical and readable way, Language and Learning emphasises a range of different aspects of language, including therole of language in structuring meaning; the different purposes and uses of language; differences between spoken and written forms of language; the history of the English language; language-learning capacities of...
