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Teacher Mediated Agency in Educational Reform in China
This book examines teacher agency in implementing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum reform in the Chinese university context. It theorizes the concept of teacher agency from a sociocultural theory perspective and draws on a study conducted in a conservative and less developed area in China. The book uses Engeström's activity theory and Vygotsky's concept of the Zone of Proximal De…
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- 978-3-319-15925-6
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- XV, 213
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- English Language Education
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Teacher Educator International Professional Development as Ren
Teacher-educator international professional development involves personal and professional, research- and practice-oriented, and pragmatic and aesthetic growth. This text encourages teacher educators to explore this work as Ren, or benevolent human beings, in cultivating global professional communities. As faculties engage in Ren as a vital 21st century form of development, new insights may eme…
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- 978-3-662-46971-2
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- XIII, 120
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- New Frontiers of Educational Research
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Teacher Education for High Poverty Schools
This volume captures the innovative, theory-based, and grounded work being done by established scholars who are interrogating how teacher education can prepare teachers to work in challenging and diverse high-poverty settings. It offers articles from the US, Australia, Canada, the UK and Chile by some of the most significant scholars in the field. Internationally, research suggests that effecti…
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- 978-3-319-22059-8
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- VIII, 251
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- Education, Equity, Economy
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Teacher Education
This book, an inaugural publication from the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA), Teacher Education: Innovation, Intervention and Impact is both a product of, and seeks to contribute to, the changing global and political times in teacher education research. This book marks an historically significant shift in the collective work and outreach of the Australian Teacher Education Assoc…
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- 978-981-10-0785-9
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- XXIII, 269
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Digital Transformation of Learning Organizations
This open access volume provides insight into how organizations change through the adoption of digital technologies. Opportunities and challenges for individuals as well as the organization are addressed. It features four major themes: 1. Current research exploring the theoretical underpinnings of digital transformation of organizations. 2. Insights into available digital technologies as well a…
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- 978-3-030-55878-9
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- 370 DIR d
Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals
Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals equips educators working in clinical, classroom, and online settings with a variety of teaching strategies that facilitate essential human connections. Included is an overview of the educational theory that grounds the authors’ thinking, enabling the educators who employ the strategies included in the book to assess their fit…
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- 9781771992855.01
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- 166 pages
Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals
Centring Human Connections in the Education of Health Professionals equips educators working in clinical, classroom, and online settings with a variety of teaching strategies that facilitate essential human connections. Included is an overview of the educational theory that grounds the authors’ thinking, enabling the educators who employ the strategies included in the book to assess their fit…
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- 9781771992855.01
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- 166 pages
Economics of Higher Education
This book examines the many ways in which economic concepts, theories and models can be used to examine issues in higher education. The topics explored in the book include how students make college-going decisions, the payoffs to students and society from going to college, markets for higher education services, demand and supply in markets for higher education, why and how state and federal gov…
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- 1
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- 978-94-017-7504-5
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- 17 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
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- XI, 390
The Theory and Practice of Online Learning
In this important collection of essays by practitioners and scholars that has been downloaded nearly half a million times is an overview of some of the most pressing issues in online education. By addressing transformations arising from educational technology advances and the new business conditions and modes of delivery of education, the contributors to The Theory and Practice of Online Learni…
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- 978-1-897425-08-4
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 484 pages
Teaching in Blended Learning Environments Creating and Sustaining Communitie…
Built upon the theoretical framework of the Community of Inquiry – the premise that higher education is both a collaborative and individually constructivist learning experience – the authors present seven principles that provide a valuable set of tools for harnessing the opportunities for teaching and learning available through technology. Focusing on teaching practices related to the desig…
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- 978-1-927356-47-0
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- Issues in Distance Education
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- 5.5 x 8.5, 154 pages
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