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Why are human societies hierarchical? How did centralized political authority originate? Anthropologists tell us that foraging societies are egalitarian compared to their agrarian and industrial successors. So what prompted our foraging ancestors to...

Subaltern Linguistics and Practice challenges the goals and theoretical foundations of colonial linguistics, academia, and education and provides alternative approaches and practices. The goal of subaltern practice is to create economies, projects, and...

This collection critically examines the practical impacts of machine translation (MT) through the lens of an ethics of care. It addresses the ideological issues in MT development linked to social hierarchies and explores the transformative potential of...

The first book to trace the critical reception of the great African American woman writer, attending not only to her fiction but to her nonfiction and critical writings. Winner of the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize for Best Single-Authored Book,...

This highly original and stimulating edited volume focuses on ways of un-writing the polysemous, controversial and highly political notion of interculturality in research and education. The authors argue that no ‘critical’ perspective on...

James Britton’s work addresses central educational questions that are as relevant today as they were half a century ago. Britton was the architect of a theory of language and learning which has influenced the thinking and practice of generations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603296861Author Luis Fernando RestrepoFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Modern Language Association of AmericaPublisher Modern Language Association of...

James Britton’s work addresses central educational questions that are as relevant today as they were half a century ago. Britton was the architect of a theory of language and learning which has influenced the thinking and practice of generations of...

How to Grow Enrollment in Online Higher Education offers practical guidance on how to more effectively attract and recruit students to online college and university programs. Despite the proliferation of online degree and certificate programs, only a...

How to Grow Enrollment in Online Higher Education offers practical guidance on how to more effectively attract and recruit students to online college and university programs. Despite the proliferation of online degree and certificate programs, only a...

Rooted in the idea that education is an open, dynamic system composed of a continuous interchange of components, this eye-opening resource presents a data-based, process-focused framework for solving the unique problems of your specific school or system...

In Equitable Instruction for English Learners in the Content Areas, ESL expert Valentina Gonzalez shows you how to meet the needs of English learners in K-8 classrooms. With an emphasis on comprehensible input, the clear and accessible guidance in this...

Subaltern Linguistics and Practice challenges the goals and theoretical foundations of colonial linguistics, academia, and education and provides alternative approaches and practices. The goal of subaltern practice is to create economies, projects, and...

Recent decades have seen a flourishing of interest in Hellenistic epigram (short poems usually in elegiac couplets), an interest fostered in part by the appearance of several ground-breaking new studies of these poems and the history of their collection,...

Research has shown that although teachers’ knowledge about the subject or pedagogy is important, a teacher’s professional vision (including their perceptions and pedagogical decisions) can also have a significant impact on the efficacy of their practice...

Why do some teachers stay in teaching? And why do others leave? Why do some enjoy it whilst others find it an unrelenting slog? Answers to these questions are elusive but vital for new teachers, school leaders and everyone in between. Using research from...

The Ecopoetics of War explores the interrelationality of human and non-human entities in the context of conflict as it is recorded in literature and culture. This collection of essaysdemonstrates the specific and fertile role of literature in...

Research has shown that although teachers’ knowledge about the subject or pedagogy is important, a teacher’s professional vision (including their perceptions and pedagogical decisions) can also have a significant impact on the efficacy of their practice...

The English language is now a lingua franca spoken by about two billion people. This insightful study considers how a ‘bridge language’ affects world literature by analysing what it is, how it works, what are its themes, what it means for canons, and how...

The first English translation of the essays, lectures, and other critical writings of the celebrated Austrian poet, novelist, and public intellectual, one of the most influential postwar writers in German. The Austrian Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is...

Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture: From Aristophanes to ‘Saturday Night Live’ explores works of comedy from the past 2,500 years.James V. Morrison discusses works including those of Aristophanes and Plautus, Shakespeare and Moliere, and modern...

Explore the most fascinating superstitions from around the world and marvel at the impact they have on our present-day lives. The Encyclopedia of Curious Rituals and Superstitions sheds light on the impact that superstitions have on our global society at...

This accessible book introduces a new theory of Critical Disciplinary Literacy that merges criticality and disciplinary literacy approaches in a cohesive and inclusive framework. There are unique hurdles in integrating critical and culturally sustaining...

This book examines perceptions and experiences of Qur’anic schools in West Africa, outlining a much-needed postcolonial approach which considers the place of Islamic education within African decolonial debates about educational pluralism.To overcome the...

This book explores Vladimir Nabokov's literary thoughts, which blend Russian traditions, American values, European heritage, and multiculturalism, manifesting the cosmopolitan character of his writings and aesthetic ideas.Nabokov’s literary thoughts and...

Based also on the new proofread and copy edited text of bestselling 2011 Flame Tree Illustrated Shakespeare, The Comedies sit alongside The Histories and The Tragedies to create a delightful three-set edition. The perfect match for The Decameron, The...

Drawing on extensive scholarly work, datasets, and experience with International Baccalaureate (IB) schools in Asia, this book illuminates contemporary debates, discussions, and discoveries surrounding IB schools in the region. Schools adopting IB...

Gérard Genette zufolge ist die literaturtheoretische Bestimmung des Titels „problematischer als bei den anderen Elementen des Paratextes“. Der Band setzt an dieser Beobachtung an und macht sie für die Untersuchung literarischer Mehrdeutigkeit produktiv...

This book explores Margaret Atwood’s distinctive use of language and style, across a selection of her prose texts, through reader-centred, cognitive stylistic analyses. It examines how strategies of misdirection, processes of doubling, and the creation...

Based also on the new proofread and copy edited text of bestselling 2011 Flame Tree Illustrated Shakespeare, the Histories sit alongside the Comedies and the Tragedies to create a delightful three-set edition. The perfect match for The Decameron, The...

Digital Chinese integrates situational and communicative methods to provide practical language skills and a deep understanding of the digital world.Digital Chinese is a pioneering textbook designed to meet the dual needs of Chinese language proficiency...

Instructional Strategies for Middle and High School Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management is an exciting methods-based text that integrates appropriate management and assessment techniques with seven distinct teaching strategies...

This book invites the reader to explore Natural Language Acquisition for Gestalt Language Processors. It clearly sets out the stages of Gestalt Language Processing and the steps in therapy to effectively help neurodivergent children, young people and...

Creating connections with and among students is at the heart of all good teaching. In order to do this, we must identify and address the obstacles, conscious and unconscious, getting in the way of this goal. Authors Katherine M. Heavers and Valerie...

Using Generative Artificial Intelligence as a student can be confusing and challenging. This authoritative guide equips you with practical knowledge, enabling you to leverage Generative AI as a powerful study aid and embark on your academic journey with...

Providing the first volume-length exploration of the role that dialogue has played in history education classrooms, this book explores the socio-cultural, psychological, and digital dimensions of dialogic practice to promote research into historical...

Based also on the new proofread and copy edited text of bestselling 2011 Flame Tree Illustrated Shakespeare, The Tragedies sit alongside The Histories and The Comedies to create a delightful three-set edition. The perfect match for The Decameron, The...

Nathaniel Hawthorne helped to establish and validate American literature by creating a mythology of America's origins that features prophetic themes and figures. Just as biblical prophets emerge at the dawn of ancient Israel, Hawthorne's prophets emerge...

This book examines internationalization practices, policies and experiences within TESOL teacher education. The chapters offer empirical, conceptual and theoretical engagements with the internationalization of TESOL teacher program curricula from both...

This accessible and empowering book helps SENCOs and their line managers to define what leadership of SEND means in practice and how SENCOs can continue to grow and develop in their role. Combatting the lack of clarity, identity and agency often...