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Cruel Promises and Change in Work-Related Self-Help Books
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Koivunen, Tuija – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2022
This article focuses on work-related self-help books and asks what kinds of promises self-help books make as a reward for change. In work-related self-help guides, the employee is advised not only to change their affects and relation to work but also to inspire others. Thus, the employee is presented as a potential reformer of the work…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Lifelong Learning, Improvement Programs, Books
Sustaining Bilingual-Biliterate Identities: Latinx Preservice Teachers' Narrative Representations of Bilingualism and Biliteracy across Time and Space
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Nuñez, Idalia; Villarreal, Doris A.; DeJulio, Samuel; Harvey, Rosalyn; Cardenas Curiel, Lucia – Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
The present study is a narrative analysis of 14 self-created books by Latina/o/x bilingual preservice teachers to describe their biliteracy trajectories. Drawing on the concept of identity and bilingualism, this analysis explores how preservice teachers experienced language and literacy and how these experiences have shaped their…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Preservice Teachers, Bilingualism, Books
The Perceptions of Students Studying in the Faculty of Education towards Reading in Terms of Their Reading Motivations
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Teksan, Keziban – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
The research was conducted with the aim of determining the levels of reading motivation of students who are studying in the department of teaching in terms of various variables and the factors that cause having low and high reading motivation. The research is based on the determination of the internal and external motivation sources that motivate…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Reading Motivation, Public Colleges
A Call for Sobriety: Sixteenth-Century Educationalists and Humanist Conviviality
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Verbeke, Demmy – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2013
Michel Jeanneret's "A Feast of Words. Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance" (1987; English translation published in 1991) highlighted the celebration by Renaissance humanists of food and drink as catalysts of intellectual exchange. The author convincingly argued that Renaissance banquets served as a paradigm for the humanist body…
Descriptors: Well Being, Foreign Countries, Translation, Humanism
"If I Knew Where the Enemy, or Even Germany Was, We Could Have Fired in that Direction": Bion's Experience of War
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Likierman, Meira – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2012
During the First World War, Bion fought in three major battles over a period of two years. He left ample writings both honest and soul searching. Travelling to The Front under raging pressure from his father, he enlisted in a state of mind, which fluctuated wildly between wanting to be a "hero" and sudden fears that made him join the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Group Dynamics, Catholic Schools
A Good Read: Which SEN Books Do Primary School Teachers Find Influential?
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Garner, Philip; Robinson, Deborah – British Journal of Special Education, 2000
Four groups of British primary school special education teachers (total N=30) met to identify and discuss the special education needs books that most influenced their work. The 47 books identified indicate that these practitioners value extending their knowledge base by reading both theoretical and practice-based books. (Contains 11 references and…
Descriptors: Books, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Individual Development