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Information Age Publishing Educational Practices in China, Korea, and the
Book SynopsisThis book is written by a diverse cohort of both of American educators, including professors, teachers, school counselors, and school administrators from pre-K to college levels. Most of the contributors come from disciplinary areas of English as a second language and school administration. With the pressure of Common Core State Standards Initiative, American educators are now shifting their focus to standards-based instruction. Meanwhile, Chinese educators are moving away from national standards and developing state level curriculum and instruction to meet specific needs of the students in local provinces. There is also a debate about whether or not to use the National College Entrance Examination as the only test for college admission. Some provinces (e.g., Zhejiang and Hubei) are administering their own college entrance examinations. The book outlines the sociocultural roots of education in the three countries, linking the tradition and philosophical orientations to each country’s own history of education. Furthermore, the book compares and contrasts the curriculum, especially the teaching of English as a second/foreign language, in three countries.This book examines the stress of students, physical education, various pedagogical styles in foreign language education as well as instructional texts and cross-cultural dialogue between teachers. Additionally, the book explores factors that influence parent’s involvement and women’s educational and career aspirations. Lastly, the book presents modern technologies such as smart learning technologies and online learning platforms not only to facilitate future educational systems but also to promote international exchanges.The chapters of the book are thematically diverse, but they help to provide inspirations for educators both in American and Asian countries. The findings offer alternative practical lenses for educational community to seek for some “middle ground” between Chinese, South Korea and American education. The intended audience for this book is graduate students, teachers, administrators, and professionals in education.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Storytelling as an Act of Remembering: Episodic
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The University of Chicago Press The Legal Epic Paradise Lost and the Early
Book SynopsisThe seventeenth century saw some of the most important legal changes in England's history, yet the period has been largely overlooked in the rich field of literature and law. Helping to fill this gap, The Legal Epic is the first book to situate the great poet and polemicist John Milton at the center of late seventeenth-century legal history. Alison A. Chapman argues that Milton's Paradise Lost sits at the apex of the early modern period's long fascination with law and judicial processes. Milton's world saw law and religion as linked disciplines and thought therefore that in different ways, both law and religion should reflect the will of God. Throughout Paradise Lost, Milton invites his readers to judge actions using not only reason and conscience but also core principles of early modern jurisprudence. Law thus informs Milton's attempt to justify the ways of God to men and points readers toward the types of legal justice that should prevail on earth. Adding to the growing interest in t
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The University of Chicago Press Comparative Method of Language Acquisition
Book SynopsisThe Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns, positionals, and complex grammatical voices, they are quite alien to English and have never been shown to be genetically related to other New World tongues. These qualities, Clifton Pye shows, afford a particular opportunity for linguistic insight. Both an overview of lessons Pye has gleaned from more than thirty years of studying how children learn Mayan languages as well as a strong case for a novel method of researching crosslinguistic language acquisition more broadly, this book demonstrates the value of a close, granular analysis of a small language lineage to untangling the complexities of first language acquisition. Pye here applies the comparative method to three Mayan languages K'iche', Mam, and Ch'ol showing how differences in the use of verbs are connected to differences in the subject markers and pronouns used by children and adults. His holistic approach allows him to observe how
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The University of Chicago Press The Comparative Method of Language Acquisition
Book SynopsisThe Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique. With their distinctive relational nouns, positionals, and complex grammatical voices, they are quite alien to English and have never been shown to be genetically related to other New World tongues. These qualities, Clifton Pye shows, afford a particular opportunity for linguistic insight. Both an overview of lessons Pye has gleaned from more than thirty years of studying how children learn Mayan languages as well as a strong case for a novel method of researching crosslinguistic language acquisition more broadly, this book demonstrates the value of a close, granular analysis of a small language lineage to untangling the complexities of first language acquisition. Pye here applies the comparative method to three Mayan languages K'iche', Mam, and Ch'ol showing how differences in the use of verbs are connected to differences in the subject markers and pronouns used by children and adults. His holistic approach allows him to observe how
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The University of Chicago Press Listening to People
Book SynopsisA down-to-earth, practical guide for interview and participant observation and analysis.Trade Review"This is the book we've all been waiting for: a practical, accessible, and deeply informed handbook to the nuts and bolts of how to do interviews and participant observation. A masterful guide that is perfect for teaching. Even the most seasoned researcher will appreciate Lareau's many insights and examples as they undertake their next research project." -- Shamus Khan, Professor of Sociology and American Studies, Princeton University“In Listening to People, Lareau provides insight into the practicalities of interview-based research and participation observation. This is an excellent and exciting guide that offers useful recommendations to researchers before they land in the field.” * LSE Review of Books *“Annette Lareau has translated her expert research practice into an accessible and awesomely instructive book that covers interviewing and field work from conception to publication. Listening to People takes the mystery out of the methods and reduces the anxiety of interjecting ourselves into other people’s lives. This book will, no doubt, be the standard text in training the next generation of writers, journalists, and researchers who listen for a living.” -- Mary Pattillo, author of Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class"Annette Lareau has written a wonderfully clear, truly insightful, and deeply personal guide to producing high-quality qualitative research. Organized around tools of “listening” and “thinking as you go,” she brings to light often unstated methods of first-rate research practice." -- Margaret Eisenhart, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Colorado Boulder"This is not only the best general guide to ethnographic research that I’ve seen (in 40 years of reading them) but also really a remarkable intellectual achievement as a seemingly easily written product of, I’m sure, years of exhaustive work. It appears to be a methods book, not a substantive contribution to sociological knowledge, but, because it is essentially a social psychology of the process of becoming an ethnographer, it’s both." -- Jack Katz, Research Professor of Sociology, UCLA"Listening to People is the book I have been searching for since I was a graduate student. It is the book everyone who hopes to produce high-quality qualitative research needs to read. Annette Lareau has assembled a veritable treasure trove of practical advice for the qualitative researcher based on her more than 40 years of experience in the field. The book is an honest and painstakingly detailed guide to conducting qualitative research from start (project inception) to finish (analysis, writing, and publication). It moves beyond the general “how to” guidance of other books to address all the minutia and peculiar realities of qualitative research. Listening to People will save future generations of qualitative researchers from the lessons that so many of us had to learn the hard way and from which some of us are still trying to recover." -- Karolyn Tyson, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"This book offers an unusually candid and compassionate lens into the process of qualitative research. Lareau provides concrete examples at every step. Not only interview questions, probes and field-notes, but elevator speeches, introductory emails, article introductions, coding schemes, manuscript reviews, and so on. She demystifies each stage of the research process. With authority, experience, and deep humility, Lareau makes a wonderful guide. Listening to People will appeal to scholars at all levels." -- Amy Steinbugler, Associate Professor of Sociology, Dickinson CollegeTable of Contents1: Introduction: The Emergent Nature of the Research Process 2: Before You Begin: Dreaming and Thinking 3: Preparing: The Early Steps in a Study 4: Learning to Interview: What to Do before and after the Interview 5: How to Conduct a Good Interview: Dig Deep 6: Learning to Do Participant Observation: A Practical Guide 7: Writing High-Quality Field Notes: Details Matter 8: Data Analysis: Thinking as you Go 9: Writing: Becoming Clearer about Your Contribution 10: Conclusion: Why Interviews and Participant Observation Research Are Valuable Final Words Acknowledgments Appendix to Chapter 3: Navigating the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects: Or, How to Manage the IRB Process Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Foundations French 2 Macmillan Foundation
Book SynopsisKATE BEECHING is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and French at the University of the West of England. She has taught non-specialist French at post GCSE level for many years and has already published a number of highly successful French text-books at this level. She is the author of several articles on pedagogic issues including the implementation of institution-wide language programmes and approaches to teaching French to non-specialistsANNIE FONTAINE LEWIS is a Senior Lecturer in French Studies. After graduating from Rouen University in 1972 she taught in secondary schools in France and then in Bristol. She joined the Department of Languages at the former Bristol Polytechnic (now U.W.E) in 1981 where she has been involved in creating teaching materials at all levels on undergraduate programmes. She also co-produced a computer-based grammar programme, from beginners to advanced level.
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Columbia University Press The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
Book SynopsisArranged alphabetically by topic, with an index of sources, this splendidly browsable collection of over 6,000 quotations is the ideal reference work for anyone writing a speech, essay, or book.Trade ReviewThe wittiest, most whimsical, and yet readable book of quotations you will find...Buy it, browse and enjoy! Very highly recommended. SSC Booknews
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