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This edited volume provides the follow up to Erling et al.’s
(2021) Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in
Sub-Saharan Africa. The strategies put forward in Volume 1 included
multilingual pedagogies that allow students to draw on their full
linguistic repertoires, translanguaging and other language
supportive pedagogies. While there is great traction in the
pedagogical strategies proposed in Volume 1, limited progress has
been made in terms of multilingual education in SSA. Thus, the main
focus of this follow-up volume is to explore the question of why
former colonial languages and monolingual approaches continue to be
used as the dominant languages of education, even when we have
multilingual pedagogies and materials that could and do work and
despite substantial evidence that learners have difficulties when
taught in a language they do not understand. This book offers
perspectives to answer this question through focusing on the
internal and external pressures which impact the capacity for
implementing multilingual strategies in educational contexts at
regional, national, and community levels. Chapters provide insights
into how to better understand and work within these contemporary
constraints and challenge dominant monoglossic discourses which
inhibit the implementation of multilingual education in SSA. The
volume focuses on three main areas which have proven to be
stumbling blocks to the effective implementation of multilingual
education to date, namely: Assessment, Ideology and Policy. An
insightful collection that will be of great interest to academics,
researchers, and practitioners in the fields of language education,
language-in-education policy and educational assessments in the
wide range of multilingual contexts in Africa.
In many parts of the world, language minority children are educated
through a second language. In these contexts, it has often been
thought appropriate to teach such children separately until they
are fluent enough in the medium of instruction to join in
mainstream schooling. More recent experience and research shows
that it is both socially more just and educationally more effective
to integrate language minority pupils into mainstream education as
early as possible. In this book, ESL and mainstream teachers from
primary and secondary schools in Australia, Canada, the USA and the
United Kingdom, describe how they go about 'mainstreaming'.
Well-supplied with examples of teaching materials and pupils' work,
their narratives are practical and detailed. At the same time they
raise vital questions of school policy which the whole school
community must address when launching initiatives of this kind.
This book will be of very practical use to ESL and mainstream
teachers, as well as to principals, advisers and those at all
levels of the education service who work in multilingual
communities. It will also serve as a handbook for teacher-educators
and student teachers of any subject who are preparing to work in
linguistically diverse classrooms.
This edited collection provides unprecedented insight into the
emerging field of multilingual education in Sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA). Multilingual education is claimed to have many benefits,
amongst which are that it can improve both content and language
learning, especially for learners who may have low ability in the
medium of instruction and are consequently struggling to learn. The
book represents a range of Sub-Saharan school contexts and
describes how multilingual strategies have been developed and
implemented within them to support the learning of content and
language. It looks at multilingual learning from several points of
view, including 'translanguaging', or the use of multiple languages
- and especially African languages - for learning and
language-supportive pedagogy, or the implementation of a distinct
pedagogy to support learners working through the medium of a second
language. The book puts forward strategies for creating materials,
classroom environments and teacher education programmes which
support the use of all of a student's languages to improve language
and content learning. The contexts which the book describes are
challenging, including low school resourcing, poverty and low
literacy in the home, and school policy which militates against the
use of African languages in school. The volume also draws on
multilingual education approaches which have been successfully
carried out in higher resource countries and lend themselves to
being adapted for use in SSA. It shows how multilingual learning
can bring about transformation in education and provides
inspiration for how these strategies might spread and be further
developed to improve learning in schools in SSA and beyond. Chapter
3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access
PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com.
This edited collection provides unprecedented insight into the
emerging field of multilingual education in Sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA). Multilingual education is claimed to have many benefits,
amongst which are that it can improve both content and language
learning, especially for learners who may have low ability in the
medium of instruction and are consequently struggling to learn. The
book represents a range of Sub-Saharan school contexts and
describes how multilingual strategies have been developed and
implemented within them to support the learning of content and
language. It looks at multilingual learning from several points of
view, including 'translanguaging', or the use of multiple languages
- and especially African languages - for learning and
language-supportive pedagogy, or the implementation of a distinct
pedagogy to support learners working through the medium of a second
language. The book puts forward strategies for creating materials,
classroom environments and teacher education programmes which
support the use of all of a student's languages to improve language
and content learning. The contexts which the book describes are
challenging, including low school resourcing, poverty and low
literacy in the home, and school policy which militates against the
use of African languages in school. The volume also draws on
multilingual education approaches which have been successfully
carried out in higher resource countries and lend themselves to
being adapted for use in SSA. It shows how multilingual learning
can bring about transformation in education and provides
inspiration for how these strategies might spread and be further
developed to improve learning in schools in SSA and beyond. Chapter
3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access
PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com.
Shortlisted for the 2017 Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize For Second
Collections. Sometime during the twentieth century, the
self-mythology of the literary critic fused with that of the
cowboy: lone outriders practising a defunct trade. In Holy Toldedo!
John Clegg tracks the critic's silhouette over the dangerous,
sun-drenched landscapes of New Mexico, California, Nashville, Utah,
Oxford, Cambridge, and London. Here is Donald Davie listening to
gospel radio in a Nashville taxi, and here is F. R. Leavis standing
on a chair, 'unscrewing instead the world from round the
lightbulb'. Vistas of bristlecone and citrus groves, pocked with
fruit flies and rain birds, fuse with the glib-core of Oxbridge
England, the university science labs where 'all three entrances
felt like the back way'. Holy Toledo! is a history of English
literary criticism in the twentieth century, a bestiary of the
American Southwest, an unreliable guide to the desert. Generous,
humorous, happily askew, Clegg's first Carcanet collection signals
the flourishing of an 'emerging' poet as a major voice.
The book describes how a character, starting with virtually no
money and absolutely no knowledge of antiques, managed to learn and
bit by bit, claw his way up the trade echelon to finally run a
massive antique shop on the Welsh Marches. The tale includes door
knocking escapades, the odd romantic dalliance, chanced successes,
embarrassing failures, the antique ring, local gypsies, the Irish
travellers, a court case and even a house clearance in Australia.
It is related by a contemporary author, who having chanced on a
character with first hand experience of those exciting times, uses
the information, plus contacts he provides, to delve back in time,
thus revealing the inside story of the antique business, over a
period, roughly spanning 1974-2004. All is described with a
humorous touch and even though fiction, events are true to the
spirit of those times. Interspersed in the story, are little
nuggets of local history, anecdotes of an almost Bohemian nature
and when able to contact survivors from those years, light hearted
banter. An insight is given regarding the difficulty of finding the
right stock and how surprisingly narrow, some of the profit
margins. Reasons are given, as to why certain things sold, plus how
the vast majority that didn't, could potentially clog a business to
a standstill. The book describes years of plenty and years of near
bankruptcy, while on each rung of the trade ladder, pitfalls and
certain individuals intent on blocking an aspiring dealer's
progress, awaited. Whether humour or near tragedy, however, both
are told in the same matter of fact manner.
A true adventure story set in the vividly-evoked Old West and told
through verse and prose poems. We follow the progress of the bounty
hunter Harry Love on his triumphant tour of California with the
supposed head of horse-thief Joaquin Murrieta in a jar, and the
Five Joaquins, a notorious gang of outlaws hard on Love's tracks.
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Aliquot (Paperback)
John Clegg
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The chemist with a sample analyses an aliquot of that sample, a
part of a part of a larger whole. The title of John Clegg's new
collection speaks to the poems' sense of being parts of larger
wholes, themselves parts of a larger whole... The scientific
knowledge and the sometimes old-fashioned diction that abound in
these poems are both part of worlds of reference in which
sequencing (narrative, historical, scientific) is crucial and
revelatory, as in the series of poems 'A Gene Sequence' which take
us from Codon to Coda via a number of -ines (Glycine, Asparagine,
Tyrosine etc). The complex exercise grows out of George Herbert
('What though my body run to dust?') and administrative duties at a
genomics conference in which the language spoken, the terms used,
find their way into the organising imagination and prosody of a
formidable, witty verse craftsman, with serious contemporary
concerns. Aliquot, John Clegg's second Carcanet book, is
storm-spooked and jumpy: haunted by jaguars and lynxes, its uneasy
silences broken by the retort of punt guns, lightning strikes, and
floodwater breaching defences. Among these stretches of foreboding
are moments of calm, especially arising out of the joy and rowdy
peace of parenthood. These poems are themselves aliquots, of a
realised, restive and unique individual world.
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Selected Poems (Paperback)
John Heath- Stubbs; Edited by John Clegg
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C.H. Sisson called John Heath-Stubbs `a Johnsonian presence with a
Miltonic disability’ – a reference to the poet’s blindness.
This selection of an abundant poet restores him to a new readership
with the work on which his popularity was based. His
ground-breaking early poetry is given its due, especially the major
long poem Wounded Thammuz, printed here in its entirety.
Heath-Stubbs was at the centre of the New Romantic school. The
Second World War left him as almost the sole representative of one
stream of English poetry. He remains crucial to the 1940s and
’50s, and was a popular presence into the 1980s, composing his
later poems in his head and reciting from memory. Too long he has
been sidelined by shifts of critical fashion. Selected Poems
includes a critical preface by John Clegg who essentialises and
celebrates the work. Three of Heath-Stubbs’ translations of
Leopardi – revered by subsequent translators, and long out of
print – are included.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Medical theory and
practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the
extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases,
their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology,
agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even
cookbooks, are all contained here.++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>British
Library<ESTCID>T301288<Notes>Date from British Library
catalogue; Mary Dicas active 1797-1805 and paper watermarked
1794.<imprintFull> Liverpool]: Swarbreck, printer, 1797?].
<collation>52 p.; 8
Proceedings of the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September
2006), Vol. 35. Contents: Introduction (Marc Groenen & Didier
Martens); 1) Application de la methodologie de lHistoire de lart a
letude de lart paleolithique: lattribution des oeuvres anonymes a
ses auteurs (Juan-Maria Apellaniz); 2) Les peintures de la grotte
de la Pasiega A (Puente Viesgo, Cantabrie) a lepreuve de la methode
de lattribution (Marc Groenen, Didier Martens); 3) The recognition
of diversity through style in the Saharan rock-art research: an
historiographic approach from the Western Sahara (Joaquim Soler
Subils); 4) The rock art of South-Morocco revisited: On surprising
stylistic and thematic characteristics of the so-called
Pseudo-Bovidien and Tazinien rock art from the mid valley of Wadi
Draa (Renate Heckendorf); 5) Spirals in Humahuaca and in the NW of
Argentina (South America) Alicia Ana (Fernandez Distel, Jose Luis
Mamani); 6) Spirals at Sturts Meadows (John Clegg); 7) Circular
elements in the rock art of the State of Bahia, Brazil (Guilherme
Albagli de Almeida); 8) Spirals of the prehistoric Open Rock
painting from Kosova (Edi Shukriu); 9) To be or not to be
Palaeolithic, that is the question (Robert G. Bednarik); 10) The
Margot Cave (Mayenne): a new palaeolithic sanctuary in West France
(Romain Pigeaud et al.) 11) Fluted Animals in the Zone of Crevices,
Gargas Cave, France (Kevin Sharpe, Leslie Van Gelder); 12)
Schematic panel with paleolithic punctuation and other questions of
Paleoastronomy and Philosophy of Antiquity (Jose Fernandez
Quintano); 13) Epipaleolithic and Mesolithic Burials from 12.000 to
7.000 BP in Llevantin Territory Art Rock (Carme Olaria, Francesc
Gusi, Jose Luis Lopez); 14) Gravuras serpentiformes na regiao de
Tras-os-Montes (Maria Fernanda Ferrato Melo de Carvalho); 15) The
Camera Obscura and the Origin of Art: The Case for Image Projection
in the Paleolithic (Matt Gatton, Leah Carreon, Madison Cawein,
Walter Brock, and Valerie Scott); 16) Etude et presentation de lart
rupestre en Iran (exemple detude dans les regions du province
central et Kerman dIran) (Elyas Saffaran; 17) Archeological Use of
Caves on the Northwestern Plains, USA (John Greer and Mavis Greer);
18) Mogollon rock art and the status of the flute player (Maarten
van Hoek); 19) The findings of the presence of the sabre toothed
tiger (Beltrao, M. C. M. C. and Locks, M.).
Putting CLIL into Practice offers a new methodological framework
for the CLIL classroom, focusing on how to guide input and support
output. Full of real-life examples and practical guidelines, the
book provides support to both novice and experienced CLIL teachers.
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Antler (Paperback)
John Clegg
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Eric Gregory Award Winner The poems in Antler stalk their quarry
over difficult ground. Prehistoric landscapes blend with genuine
and imaginary anthropology; the real world becomes distorted
through the dark mirrors of folktale and myth; fraudsters, liars,
and con-men lurk perpetually in the shadows. This panorama is
emotional, too, most vividly in the collection's centrepiece: the
sequence 'Vaisala and Sinuhe', charting an astronomy professor's
infatuation with one of his postgraduate students, who may or may
not be a werewolf. Pared-down, playful and often very funny,
Clegg's poetry keeps faith with what is tactile and tangible (moss,
leather, bone), distilling plainspoken diction, luminous imagery
and a unique worldview into lines which remain in the head for a
long while after the book has been closed.
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