Lyn: 900 books
Second Language Socialization and Learner Agency
Adoptive Family Talk
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
This book examines how Russian-speaking adoptees in three US families actively shape opportunities for language learning and identity construction in everyday interactions. By focusing on a different practice in each family (i.e. narrative talk about the day, metalinguistic discourse or languaging,...
Growing the Next Generation of Researchers
A Handbook for Emerging Researchers and Their Mentors
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book arises out of the University of Cape Town’s Emerging Researcher Programme. It identifies and promotes awareness of contemporary challenges in the local and global higher education context; explains the intrinsic nature of academia worldwide; and provides strategies for individual growth...
Flexible Learning in Action
Case Study in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Knowledge at the Crossroads?
Physics and History in the Changing World of Schools and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
There is much discussion about what needs to change in education institutions in the 21st century, but less attention given to how core disciplinary studies should be considered within that context. This book is based on a major 4-year research study of history and physics in the changing environment...
by Lyn Parker, Pam Nilan
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The youth demographic is a large and growing cohort in Indonesia, and adolescents embody the currents of social change. Throughout the twentieth century they were significant agents of social protest leading to social and political transformation. This book looks at the importance of adolescents in...
The Resilience Doughnut
The Secret of Strong Kids
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
This thoughtful, accessible, inspirational and well written book outlines a model that can provide ourselves and our children with the capacity to face, overcome and be transformed by adversity. In Seven bite size chunks, the Resilience Doughnut model represents the outside influences that build resilience...
by Anne Anderson, Richard Gerrish, Lyn Layton
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
A thought-provoking book which provides a framework for understanding the physical, sensory, emotional, social, linguistic and cognitive development of children with special educational needs. It gives practitioners and students a sound grasp of the theoretical ground needed to fully understand cognitive...
Sound Practice
Phonological Awareness in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
The second edition of Sound Practice looks afresh at how young children can be helped to discover basic facts about an alphabetic spelling system, within the context of their developing spoken language. It examines why children might fail to understand letter-sound links; the origins of severe and...
Minimum Contract Justice
A Capabilities Perspective on Sweatshops and Consumer Contracts
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
The collapse of the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh (2013) is one of many cases to invoke critical scrutiny and moral outrage regarding the conditions under which consumer goods sold on our markets are produced elsewhere. In spite of abiding moral concerns, these goods remain popular and consumers continue...
Teaching Primary Science
Promoting Enjoyment and Developing Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This fully updated third edition brings science subject knowledge and pedagogy together to support, inform and inspire those training to teach primary science.
Written in a clear and accessible way, Teaching Primary Science provides comprehensive coverage of a wide range of science themes....
Literacy, Leading and Learning
Beyond Pedagogies of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
How might educational leaders and teachers improve literacy achievement in schools serving communities experiencing high levels of poverty? This question is the focus of this book. Drawing on long-term case studies of four primary schools located in these communities, this book describes the difference...
Collaboration and Assistance in Music Therapy Practice
Roles, Relationships, Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Relating the innovative ways in which assistants and collaborators can become an integral part of a course of music therapy, this book explores how the involvement of a diverse range of individuals, such as family members, learning support assistants, caregivers and medical staff, can contribute to...
Practical Fashion Tech
Wearable Technologies for Costuming, Cosplay, and Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Pull back the curtain on making fun and innovative costumes and accessories incorporating technologies like low-cost microprocessors, sensors and programmable LEDs.
Fashion tech can require skills in design, pattern-making, sewing, electronics, and maybe 3D printing. Besides the tech skills,...
by K. Lyn Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The man with skin as dark as night could do with her whatever he pleased!
On her own for the first time, Vicki buys an eerie old house where she discovers a secret room with bare cement walls. Scribbled in the cold cement is the name Wilson, and a voice...