The Emotional Lives of Young People with Autism
This study questions the American Psychiatric Association’s definition of autism, offering evidence that even non-verbal children have an emotional life. Drawing on interviews with parents from three cultures, it shows children with autism have emotional competence.
Voices from Far Away Lands
In an era of global tension, stories from international lives offer vital insights. These compelling essays explore our search for identity, community, and belonging in a changing world.
This book covers contemporary topics, approaches, and methodologies in education, focusing on recent developments in pre-service teacher education. It is an essential resource for undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students and researchers.
This book examines the complex relationship between learning, education, and community. Using Slovenian studies with global relevance, it offers a unique perspective shaped by the historical European experience of attempting collective unity in former Yugoslavia.
International Student Transitions
Given the rising number of international students, the consideration of new approaches to English language development is vital. This volume introduces a framework to guide institutions in examining their views and beliefs regarding language acquisition and approaches to success.
Potential Development Using Thinking Tools
This book cracks teaching myths that make learners knowledge duplicators instead of creators. Thinking tools move the focus from mastering content to critical thinking, turning learners into thinking engineers who take ownership of what they discover, create, and solve.
This book tells the ‘USC story’: the challenges faced and pedagogical enhancements made in embracing new technology to teach social work online. It details how faculty converted traditional courses for a virtual program that grew to over 2,200 students.
Innovative Mnemonics in Chemical Education
This book details time-economic, innovative learning techniques to help students grow an interest in chemistry and memorize the subject. It solves the limitations of conventional methods and provides chemical applications, problems, and free educational tools.
The 21st century demands new skills: media literacy, leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. However, their relationship with education is not yet fully established. This book discusses these skills through studies in the context of Turkey.
Inorganic Synthesis
This book develops practical skills for synthetic chemistry. It teaches techniques for the preparation, handling, and characterisation of inorganic, coordination, and air-sensitive compounds through safe, step-by-step lab experiments illustrated with colour photos and figures.
Native-speakerism in English Language Teaching
The first large-scale study of native-speakerism in China’s ELT. This critical examination reveals how the ideology is enacted and legitimized through the attitudes of students, teachers, and administrators toward language, culture, and teaching methods.
This collection of essays explores the under-discussed role of higher education in the professionalization of adult educators. It examines how universities deliver skills, validate competences, and engage in the dialogue shaping the future of adult education policies.
Liberal Arts Perspectives on Globalism and Transnationalism
As globalization expands, reactionary forces like nationalism and populism have exposed its blind spots. This volume gathers leading scholars to analyze the human cost of immigration, the threats of online technologies, and other pressing challenges of our interconnected world.
Answering questions like “Will I ever use this?,” this book shows why learning is most effective through experience. It provides the tools needed to make better use of experiences to improve teaching and learning.
Assessment is a major driver of the student tertiary experience. This book explores the rubric as the key tool in this experience, examining different models and providing data from students and academics on their efficacy for marking and providing feedback.
Dyslexia and Creativity
This book explores dyslexia from a cognitive and neurological view, outlining a theory that links this learning difference to the creative process. It shows how artists and writers faced the struggles of dyslexia, harnessing its positive traits to fuel their creative success.
Contrastive Phraseology
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive, modern analysis of phrasemes for researchers, teachers, translators, and lexicographers. A contrastive approach outlines divergences between languages, from major ones to less-investigated ones like Ukrainian, Georgian, and Thai.
A vital collection on intercultural practices in European health and education. Featuring cutting-edge research with diverse clients, it examines diversity, sources of tension, and paths to resilience and wellbeing.
The Beginning Teacher’s K-6 Classroom
This book focuses on the purpose, theory, and practice of teaching. It explores learning theories, unlocking creativity, and the practical “nuts and bolts” of classroom management. An extremely helpful guide for beginning elementary teachers and teacher candidates.
English Studies in the 21st Century presents recent academic research on literary, cultural, and language studies. This collection challenges dominant perspectives on tradition while exploring contemporary topics like Neo-Victorianism, the Anthropocene, and posthumanism.