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The effectiveness of Education for Sustainable Development depends
on the ability of schools and teachers to embrace pedagogies that
reduce the gap between the rhetoric of education for the
environment and the reality of classroom practices. This book
responds to the need to better understand the nature of the
relationships between agency and structure that contribute to the
development of educational rhetoric-reality gaps in order to inform
processes that most effectively facilitate pedagogical change. This
book explores the issues of pedagogical change through the
experiences of Australian primary school teachers faced with the
challenge of implementing an environmental education program in
which young students were positioned as active participants in the
social processes from which environmentally sustainable practices
could be developed. These teachers were required to adopt
pedagogies that often represented the antithesis of their
well-established teacher-directed approaches. Through the use of
Anthony Giddens' Theory of Structuration this book provides unique
perspectives of the teacher mediated manner in which certain
elements of structure and agency interrelate to enable and
constrain classroom practices-essential understandings for school
principals and educational policy developers who aim to effectively
implement pedagogical change. This book also demonstrates that the
Theory of Structuration provides a valuable ontological research
framework, and provides social researchers with practical guidance
for how to relate this theory to specific research issues.
The effectiveness of Education for Sustainable Development depends
on the ability of schools and teachers to embrace pedagogies that
reduce the gap between the rhetoric of education for the
environment and the reality of classroom practices. This book
responds to the need to better understand the nature of the
relationships between agency and structure that contribute to the
development of educational rhetoric-reality gaps in order to inform
processes that most effectively facilitate pedagogical change. This
book explores the issues of pedagogical change through the
experiences of Australian primary school teachers faced with the
challenge of implementing an environmental education program in
which young students were positioned as active participants in the
social processes from which environmentally sustainable practices
could be developed. These teachers were required to adopt
pedagogies that often represented the antithesis of their
well-established teacher-directed approaches. Through the use of
Anthony Giddens' Theory of Structuration this book provides unique
perspectives of the teacher mediated manner in which certain
elements of structure and agency interrelate to enable and
constrain classroom practices-essential understandings for school
principals and educational policy developers who aim to effectively
implement pedagogical change. This book also demonstrates that the
Theory of Structuration provides a valuable ontological research
framework, and provides social researchers with practical guidance
for how to relate this theory to specific research issues.
With an impressive array of speeches from a diverse range of
first-class playwrights, the "Faber Book of Monologues" is an
indispensable guide to new, untapped, and cutting-edge material.
Designed for use in professional auditions as well as student
workshops, each volume contains over twenty-five selections,
ranging in age from twenty to sixty-five, which are culled from a
rich variety of tragic, comic, realist and absurdist works by the
most vibrant new playwrights, as well as critically-acclaimed
pieces from established masters such as Richard Greenberg, David
Hare, Neil LaBute, and Yasmina Reza. In order to foster a more
nuanced association between the actor and the material, each
selection includes insightful character commentary, staging and
vocalization recommendations, and references to past great
performances. A thoughtful Introduction, written by critic Jane
Edwardes, provides helpful hints for the nerve-wracking audition
process.
With an impressive array of speeches from a diverse range of
first-class playwrights, the "Faber Book of Monologues" is an
indispensable guide to new, untapped, and cutting-edge material.
Designed for use in professional auditions as well as student
workshops, each volume contains over twenty-five selections,
ranging in age from twenty to sixty-five, which are culled from a
rich variety of tragic, comic, realist and absurdist works by the
most vibrant new playwrights, as well as critically-acclaimed
pieces from established masters such as Richard Greenberg, David
Hare, Neil LaBute, and Yasmina Reza. In order to foster a more
nuanced association between the actor and the material, each
selection includes insightful character commentary, staging and
vocalization recommendations, and references to past great
performances. A thoughtful introduction, written by critic Jane
Edwardes, provides helpful hints for the nerve-wracking audition
process.
â Richard Bentley (then Richard Bentley and Son) was the leading
publisher of fiction in three-volume form for much of the 19th
century, and his business traded globally. He was one of the most
important publishers in his time. He worked with many of the
best-selling British and overseas writers, including publishing
much important later fiction in single-volumes. From 1832 until it
was sold to Macmillan in 1898, his London-based firm developed
networks to distribute its books throughout the British Empire. It
also issued works of fiction and non-fiction about Great Britain's
various colonies in what are now Australia, Canada, India, New
Zealand, and South Africa. The book historians and scholarly
editors who have contributed to Richard Bentley and The British
Empire: Imperial and Colonial Publishing in the 19th Century
analyse fundamental aspects of the structure, history and
functioning of the international book trade. They explore the many
roles that Bentley played in disseminating information about these
far-flung possessions and in helping to develop - and modify -
British cultural values in them. As well as documenting the
geography and history of regions in the Empire, the contributors to
this volume explore many questions including race relations and
slavery, that are still relevant today.
Esperanto, spoken by thousands of people across the world, is the
most successful international language project. In this book, the
French linguist and literary critic Pierre Janton describes the
history of Esperanto since its invention in nineteenth-century
Eastern Europe and offers a comprehensive linguistic description of
the language. This book is the best general introduction to
esperanto and its role in the modern world.
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