Bridging Contexts, Making Connections
Author | : Michael Einar Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780972254595 |
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Author | : Michael Einar Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780972254595 |
Author | : Lindy Abawi |
Publisher | : IAP |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2011-12-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1617355526 |
This book explores the wide range of contexts in which research into creating connections in learning and teaching may take place. Creating connections can encompass making links, crossing divides, forming relationships, building frameworks, and generating new knowledge. The cognitive, cultural, social, emotional and/or physical aspects of understanding, meaning-making, motivating, acting, researching, and evaluating are explored as constituent forms of creativity in relation to such connections. From this exploration the authors identify varied connective contexts and means which include the learner, the educator, the organisation, and the relevant community. The crossing of divides, forming learner-educator relationships, bringing together diverse groups of learners, establishing networks and partnerships among educators, and establishing links between organisations and communities are all considered as connections which can be created by and within the learning and teaching dynamic. By examining the factors which help to facilitate and/or restrict the possibilities for creating connections in educational contexts, implications for and outcomes of learning and/or teaching arise from the connections created. The final chapter of this book will explicate the realisations that have emerged for educators and researchers working to create connections. These offer suggestions for future directions and enunciate what and how connections might contribute to both educational institutions and the broader society.
Author | : Karen Beeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Education, Bilingual |
ISBN | : 9781681256276 |
Author | : Wai Meng Chan |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1614510938 |
Learner characteristics have been at the center of second language acquisition and foreign language education research in response to the puzzling questions: Why are there often large differences in second language (L2) learning achievement and why do many learners, though proficient first language speakers, not succeed in learning a L2? The papers in this book explore and challenge the three key factors in individual difference research: language aptitude, language learning strategies and motivation.
Author | : Arthur Maria Stein |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2019-01-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1848883285 |
Author | : Dat Bao |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2021-06-12 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9811600570 |
This book identifies three types of influential forces that pose challenges to innovations: socio-cultural dynamics, teacher individuality, and local circumstances. It uses languages, cultural traits, and intellectual heritages in the Asia-Pacific region as an example to show the resistance to Western-based pedagogies due to disparities between the innovations and these local heritages. It reveals personal and professional values that teachers hold and how these values, while seemingly supporting creative ideologies, happen to prevent them from incorporating innovations in their practices. The book discusses how informal educational activities and services that a society possesses could impede pedagogical innovations. There is, therefore, a need for institutions and educators to develop a positive relationship between these phenomena and teaching innovations.
Author | : Susan M. Gass |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 629 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1136666893 |
This handbook brings together 50 leading international figures in the field to produce a state-of-the-art overview of second language acquisition.
Author | : Mary Lynn Redmond |
Publisher | : IAP |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2013-06-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 162396203X |
The current thrust in the field of education is to improve teachers’ understanding of how research on best practices can improve student learning. The field of world language education introduces a double, perhaps a triple, bind: teachers must be able to design and deliver instruction that aligns with national expectations for developing students’ language and intercultural abilities for success in the global workplace, yet in schools across America, all K-12 students do not have the opportunity to study languages, even though research supports their astonishing facility for acquisition. Schools and teachers without resources, including time to investigate and implement evidence-based best practices, are ultimately held accountable for student performance. If world language teachers are to advocate for languages, they must use their expertise and share evidence of their students’ progress. The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) recently began development of a national research priorities agenda for grades preK-16. Action research, which is classroom-centered and inquiry-based, can contribute to our profession’s efforts, as it helps us to increase awareness of the critical need for language study in grades preK-16. World language teachers can become teacher-researchers in their own classrooms, gathering deeply meaningful insights into their students’ progress that they can share with others. Teacher-researchers investigate innovative approaches in response to their questions about teaching and learning, which are rooted in daily experience. They engage their students in fresh learning activities, and student feedback helps them to make better decisions about instructional and assessment strategies. Results can be shared with stakeholders, including parents, administrators, school board members, and guidance counselors, as evidence of what all kinds of students can do in languages. At a time in our history when we are striving to prepare teachers for 21st-century schools that prioritize global competence, Action Research in the World Language Classroom is a timely resource for the profession. It describes a natural, engaging, motivating way to contribute, particularly for preservice teachers who are shaping their views and understanding about world language instruction and the connections between research and best practices. The book includes four studies conducted by preservice teachers during their student teaching internships in North Carolina public schools. The editor hopes that their work and observations will inspire and assist world language educators at all stages of their careers.
Author | : Hope Gwendolyn Casto |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Schools and communities can work together in many ways for mutual benefit: improved academic success and community vitality. In three papers, this dissertation presents evidence for the value of school-community interactions. The first paper highlights the possible synergy of the education, community studies, and institutional theory literatures as a way to theorize place-based education as a particularly beneficial type of school-community interaction. Separately, findings from a study of school-level decision making suggest that the most local communities are as, if not more, influential on educational administrators as their broader institutional and professional environment, which runs counter to literature on the topic (e.g., Arum, 2000). Finally, findings from a case of a single elementary school situated in a larger set of communities describe the multiple ways a community can be defined from the community and school perspectives and emphasize the function of the most local professional environment for school leaders. Additionally, this case offers a description of the partnering activities of one isolated school. Together these three papers argue that the most local community in which a school exists can be a valuable partner and play a role in school-level decision making. These activities and others can enhance school-community connections in order to benefit students, families and communities.
Author | : Andrew Orton |
Publisher | : Sacristy Press |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1908381949 |
This book examines how deacons within Methodist Church in Britain have understood their ministry and sought to address its challenges.