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ItemNo Preview AvailableLiterary Conversations: An Australian Classroom(Sense Publisher, 2011)This essay arises from an ongoing discussion about the teaching of Literature which followed after a 'critical friend', Bella Illesca spent a series of consecutive lessons observing the action in Prue Gill's Year 12 Literature class. By examining, interpreting and exploring the events of the classroom as students discussed the short stories of contemporary Australian writer, Beverley Farmer, we were lead to articulate our aims with teachers, our puzzles and our concerns in ways that helped each of us think afresh about teaching.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableBuilding Optimism in Prospective Mathematics Teachers(Springer US, 2011)This three-task sequence, which interconnects congruency, similarity, geometric constructions, and deductive proof, can be accessed by prospective mathematics teachers possessing limited understanding of these topics. Creative thinking is stimulated during work within this sequence: experimenting, recognizing relevant mathematics from earlier in the sequence to progress this experimenting, and connecting mathematical understandings. This chapter focuses on how the implementation of this complex task sequence provided opportunities for successes that theory suggests should contribute to developing psychological factors to increase future teachers’ ability to think flexibly when encountering mathematical and pedagogical challenges.
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ItemBringing Asia to the Home Front: The Australian Experience of Asian Language Education through National Policy(MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD, 2011)The East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region encompasses one-third of the world’s population and more than one-quarter of the world’s children – around 580 million children in total. The region possesses a stunning variety in geography, culture and political and economic systems and significant diversity can be seen within countries in terms of wealth, ethnicity and language. The EAP region is also diverse in terms of education provision. While some countries have achieved the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2015, specifically, the Education For All commitments, many have not. A significant portion of the population continues to experience multiple deprivations, including access to and quality of education. Governments are making efforts to achieve ‘inclusive growth’ and working to distribute the benefits of economic development to all sections of society, as they mainstream the MDGs’ gains and its continuous application in the newly approved Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Many are increasingly recognising education as a pivotal component of inclusive growth.(From introduction)
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ItemA Friendly Knife? English in the Context of Sri Lankan Language Planning(Cambridge University Press, 2011)
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ItemGlobalization, universities and medium of instruction(Elsevier, 2010-12-01)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableRethinking Early Childhood Education and Care: Implications for Research and Evaluation.(Elsevier, 2010)Research in disadvantaged populations demonstrates that the effect of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) programs can reach into adulthood and influence a wide range of achievement and social well-being outcomes. In English-speaking developed economies, these findings have sparked new perceptions of the role ECEC programs play in both the public and private sphere. Programs that achieve improved learning and social well-being for children are seen as an investment for both individuals and society. Yet, the empirical understanding of what programs best deliver positive outcomes across the diversity of social contexts is limited. A key research task is to identify the forms of ECEC that are most effective in delivering enduring and broad positive outcomes for all children. This article explores changing policy conceptualizations of ECEC, the outcome goals of ECEC, and directions for research in identifying quality in ECEC programs. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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ItemValuing social and emotional connectedness among learners at all levels: Creating new kinds of conversations for resilient relationships(Springer Science+Business Media, 2010)
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ItemWorking with diversity in transnational contexts(Council of Europe Publishing, 2010)
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ItemFremdsprachendidaktik in englischsprachigen Landern(Klett Kallmeyer, 2010)
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ItemResolving Issues and Concerns of ESL Reading Teachers Through Professional Collaborative Practices(University Publication Centre, 2010)