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“tracy novinger”

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  • Intercultural Communication

    A Practical Guide

    by Tracy Novinger ...
    Successfully communicating with people from another culture requires learning more than just their language. While fumbling a word or phrase may cause embarrassment, breaking the unspoken cultural rules that govern personal interactions can spell disaster for businesspeople, travelers, and indeed anyone who communicates across cultural boundaries. To help you avoid such damaging gaffes, Tracy ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Translanguaging with Multilingual Students

    Learning from Classroom Moments

    Edited by Ofelia García, Tatyana Kleyn ...
    Looking closely at what happens when translanguaging is actively taken up to teach emergent bilingual students across different contexts, this book focuses on how it is already happening in classrooms as well as how it can be implemented as a pedagogical orientation. It extends theoretical understandings of the concept and highlights its promises and challenges. Using a Transformative Action ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Writings for a Liberation Psychology

    by Ignacio Martín-Baró ...
    “In your country,” Ignacio Martín-Baró remarked to a North American colleague, “it’s publish or perish. In ours, it’s publish and perish.” In November 1989 a Salvadoran death squad extinguished his eloquent voice, raised so often and so passionately against oppression in his adopted country. A Spanish-born Jesuit priest trained in psychology at the University of Chicago, Martín-Baró devoted much ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Bilingual Revolution: The Future of Education is in Two Languages

    The Bilingual Revolution, #1

    by Fabrice Jaumont ...
    Series Book 1 - The Bilingual Revolution
    Conceived as a practical, accessible "how to" guide, The Bilingual Revolution is the story of a movement to bring dual language education to public schools told through the eyes of founding parents and educators. These pioneering mothers, fathers, teachers, and principals share the belief that bilingual education can positively transform a child, a school, a community, and even a country.Although ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Funds of Knowledge

    Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms

    Edited by Norma Gonzalez, Luis C. Moll, Cathy Amanti ...
    The concept of "funds of knowledge" is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge. The claim in this book is that first-hand research experiences with families allow one to document this competence and knowledge, and that such engagement provides many possibilities for positive pedagogical actions.Drawing from both ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education

    Language, Literacy and Culture

    Edited by Marcia Farr, Lisya Seloni, Juyoung Song ...
    In recent decades, the linguistic and cultural diversity of school populations in the United States and other industrialized countries has rapidly increased along with globalization processes. At the same time, schooling as it is currently constituted continues to be ineffective for large numbers of students. Exploring crucial issues that emerge at the intersection of linguistic diversity and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching

    Portraits of EFL Teachers as Legitimate Speakers

    by Peter Sayer ...
    Series series ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
    The central theme of this book is the ambiguities and tensions teachers face as they attempt to position themselves in ways that legitimize them as language teachers, and as English speakers. Focusing on three EFL teachers and their schools in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, it documents how ordinary practices of language educators are shaped by their social context, and examines the roles, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility

    From Blind to Transformative Optimism

    by César Augusto Rossatto ...
    Engaging Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility is a cross-cultural case study of how people experience schooling in relation to their sense of time and optimism. César Augusto Rossatto examines how real-life situations and social structures influence people's construction of notions of possibilities. Positionality, or perceptions about life and projections of the future, has great impact on ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Psychology of the Mexican

    Culture and Personality

    by R. Díaz-Guerrero ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    In his quest to understand and describe the behavior of the Mexican, the distinguished Mexican psychologist R. Díaz-Guerrero combines a strong theoretical interest in the relationship of culture to personality with a pragmatic concern for methodology. This collection of essays is rooted both in studies of Mexican psychology as an independent phenomenon and in cross-cultural comparisons of Mexicans ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Salsa Dancing in Gym Shoes

    Developing Cultural Competence to Foster Latino Student Success

    by Tammy Oberg De La Garza, Alyson Leah Lavigne ...
    Cultural competence is a critical skill teachers must posses if they are going to connect with racially diverse students. Misunderstanding or ignorance of the Latino value system, history, and culture create barriers between teachers and students that significantly deteriorate their potential for learning. Consider how you would typically greet a friend or a relative. Perhaps you would shake hands ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paulo Freire and Multilingual Education

    Theoretical Approaches, Methodologies, and Empirical Analyses in Language and Literacy

    Edited by Sandro R. Barros, Luciana C. de Oliveira ...
    This collection celebrates the work of Paulo Freire by assembling transnational perspectives on Freirean-based educational models that reconsider and reimagine language and literacy instruction, especially for multilingual learners. Offering an international and comparative overview of Freire’s theories and critical pedagogies in relation to multilingualism, this volume presents innovative ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Bilingual Revolution

    The Future of Education is in Two Languages

    by Fabrice Jaumont ...
    Series Book 1 - The Bilingual Revolution Series
    Conceived as a practical, accessible "how to" guide, The Bilingual Revolution is the story of a movement to bring dual language education to public schools told through the eyes of founding parents and educators. These pioneering mothers, fathers, teachers, and principals share the belief that bilingual education can positively transform a child, a school, a community, and even a country.Although ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus