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Artur Skweres – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
This collected book analyzes the phenomenon of crisis manifested across various historical periods. It offers unique, multifaceted, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the issues of crises and finds numerous applications in the fields of literature, linguistics, advertising, photography, and foreign language teaching. The collection is divided…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
Standish, Alex, Ed.; Cuthbert, Alka Sehgal, Ed. – UCL Press, 2017
The blurring of the distinctions between pedagogy and curriculum, and experience and knowledge, has resulted in a generation of teachers who are confused about the part that each of these plays in the education of children. Schools may still teach through subjects, but there is little consensus about what constitutes a subject and what they are…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Knowledge Level, Intellectual Disciplines, Mathematics Instruction
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Lawrence, Salika A., Ed. – IGI Global, 2014
With an ever growing diverse population and access to new technologies, it is no revelation that education is undergoing a significant transformation in the twenty-first century. What remains a struggle is equipping students to meet modern expectations while trying to provide a platform for learning that does not perpetuate the same inequalities…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods, Guidelines, Literacy
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Breen, Paul, Ed. – IGI Global, 2014
As our world becomes increasingly diverse and technologically-driven, the role and identities of teachers continues to change. "Cases on Teacher Identity, Diversity, and Cognition in Higher Education" seeks to address this change and provide an accurate depiction of the teaching profession today. This thought-provoking collection of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Professional Identity, Teacher Role, Teacher Responsibility
Day, Betty H., Ed.; Wortman, William A., Ed. – 2000
This book of essays is a guide to help librarians in reference and/or collection development in the field of literature in English. Chapters fall into two broad sections: Resources and Collections, and Readers and Services. The first section includes six chapters: "The Nature of Library Collections" (William A. Wortman); "Retrospective Collection…
Descriptors: English Literature, Library Collection Development, Library Materials, Library Services
Furman, Laura, Ed.; Standard, Elinore, Ed. – 1997
The voices in this anthology, i.e., Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Anthony Trollope, E.M. Forster, Franz Kafka, Frederick Douglass, Emily Post, Virginia Woolf, Bernard Malamud, and many others, describe the excitement of first learning to read and remind everyone of the unique companionship offered throughout life by books. The anthology…
Descriptors: Authors, English Literature, Intellectual Development, North American Literature
Muller, Gilbert H., Comp.; Williams, John A., Comp. – 1994
This anthology of literature from the many American cultures as well as cultures around the world is intended for use in today's college composition and introductory literature courses. Offering a blend of classic favorites and selections from other cultures, the anthology contains some 300 stories, poems, and plays from the six habitable…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, English Instruction
Leder, Priscilla, Comp.; And Others – 1992
This book of essays and poetry by participants in a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar explores the portrayal in arts and literature of the "outsider" or "alien" who is cut off from country and citizenship, either by choice or circumstance. The book is divided into seven categories. Part 1,…
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Citizen Role, Citizenship
Brumfit, C. J., Ed. – 1983
A collection of papers concerning the application of language studies to the instruction and promotion of English literature appreciation in foreign countries includes an introduction by Neil Gilroy-Scott and these essays: "The Deviant Language of Poetry" (H. G. Widdowson); "Approaches to the Study of Literature: A Practitioner's View" (H. L. B.…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bibliographies, Classroom Techniques, Course Descriptions