Bücher von Weijia Yang

This book inquires narratively into the practice of scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and teachers¿ personal practical knowing process in a self-initiated community of university teachers in China. Following a conception by Boyer (1990) that research should be incorporated into teaching as the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), Huber & Hutchings (2005) theorize SoTL in a four-core-practice framework of a linear process of individual expression for research and publication. However, not much attention has been given to the important dynamics of collaborative learning. Adopting a social theory of learning and Wenger¿s ¿communities of practice¿ (1998, 2002), this book extends the framework by Huber & Hutchings to investigate the integrated form of individual and collaborative SoTL practice. ¿Personal practical knowledge¿ by Connelly, Clandinin & He (1997) is considered in the light of Palmer¿s ¿community of truth¿ (1998), which is aimed at developing an integrated perspective for understanding teachers¿ evolving personal practical knowledge in the SoTL community.

This book reports on a comprehensive study addressing the dynamic responses of hydropower plants under diverse conditions and disturbances, and analyzes their stability and oscillations.