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This edited volume offers a cohesive account of recent developments across the world in the field of learner and teacher autonomy in languages education. Drawing on the work of eminent researchers of language learning and teaching, it explores at both conceptual and practical levels issues related to current pedagogical developments in a wide range of contexts. Global shifts have led to an increase in autonomous and independent learning both in policy and practice (including self-access and distance learning). The book s scope and focus will therefore be beneficial to language teachers as well as to students and researchers in applied linguistics and those involved in pre- and in-service teacher education. The book concludes with an overview of the state of research in this field, focusing on the (inter)relationships between the concepts of learner and teacher autonomy.

El libro Fisioterapias y Kinesiologías del Sur es una obra pionera en su área y se destaca por su rigor teórico y práctico sobre las experiencias y conocimientos de profesionales en Centro y Sur América. Este libro se distingue al integrar las epistemologías del sur, que ofrecen una perspectiva única y enriquecedora, que contrasta con las visiones hegemónicas tradicionales. Los autores, polifónicos, diversos e incluyentes, plasman la esencia de las prácticas locales y regionales al resaltar cómo las comunidades de Centro y Sur América han adaptado las metodologías de fisioterapia y kinesiología a sus realidades específicas. Este enfoque les proporciona una voz a los profesionales que han sido históricamente subrepresentados en la literatura académica. La obra Fisioterapias y Kinesiologías del Sur es esencial para cualquier profesional de la fisioterapia y kinesiología que desee ampliar su perspectiva y comprender la importancia de las epistemologías del sur. Su combinación de rigor científico y valoración de las experiencias locales lo convierte en un recurso imprescindible para la práctica profesional y la formación académica. Este libro está dirigido a fisioterapeutas, kinesiólogos, estudiantes y académicos que buscan una obra completa y actualizada con herramientas prácticas y teóricas y que valora y destaca la riqueza del conocimiento desarrollado en Centro y Sur América.

Lesson study is a popular professional development approach in Japan whereby teachers collaborate to study content, instruction, and how students solve problems and reach for understanding in order to improve elementary mathematics instruction and learning in the classroom. This book is the first comprehensive look at the system and process of lesson study in Japan. It describes in detail the process of how teachers conducted lesson study--how they collaborated in order to develop a lesson, what they talked about during the process, and what they looked at in order to understand deeply how students were learning. Readers see the planning of a mathematics lesson, as well as how much content knowledge the teachers have. They observe students' problem solving strategies and learn how Japanese teachers prepare themselves to identify those strategies and facilitate the students' discussion. Written for mathematics teachers, educational researchers, school administrators interested in teachers' professional development, and professional developers, this landmark volume provides an in-depth understanding of lesson study that can lead to positive changes in teachers' professional development and in teaching and learning in the United States.

This volume outlines the assumptions and beliefs that distinguish the concept of the reflective teacher from the view of the teacher as passive and a mere technician -- a view that teacher education programs and schools have historically promoted. The authors demonstrate how various conceptions of reflective teaching differ from one another. They believe that it is only through teachers' reflections on their own teaching that they become more skilled, more capable, and in general better teachers. This is the first volume in the "Reflective Teaching and the Social Conditions of Schooling" series. The major goal of both this book and of all of the volumes to follow in this series is to help teachers explore and define their own positions with regard to the topics and issues at hand within the context of the aims of education in a democratic society.