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Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is a state-of-the art overview of advances in theories and practices relevant to the assessment of academic English skills for higher education admissions purposes.

This volume provides a concise overview of research and key terms on linguistic description in English for Academic Purposes, charting its evolution over the last thirty years. This book is key reading for graduate students and established researchers looking to expand their knowledge base in EAP.

College teachers all too often still play Sage on the Stage - lecturing to rooms full of passive and supposedly absorbed students. The cutting-edge opposite is still supposed to be the Guide on the Side - facilitating wherever students themselves are already going, mentoring and coaching them along the way. But who says that these are the only - or the best - alternatives? This book advances another and sharply different model: the Impresario with a Scenario, a teacher who serves as class mobilizer, improviser, and energizer, staging dramatic, often unexpected and self-unfolding learning challenges and adventures with students.In this book, the author argues that to pose a single alternative to lecturing is profoundly limiting. In fact, he says there is no reason to have to choose between "e;student-centered"e; and "e;teacher-centered"e; pedagogies. The best ways to teach and learn are both. The same applies to the false choice between "e;active"e; students and "e;active"e; teachers - there can be more than enough activity for everyone. In particular, the author argues that we need a model in which the teacher is notably pro-active - a kind of activity for which certain theatrical metaphors seem especially appropriate.Picture a college teacher who regularly sets up classroom scenarios - challenging problems, unscripted dramas, role-plays, simulations, and the like - such that the scenario itself frames and drives most of the action and learning that follows. For teaching as staging, the primary work of the teacher is staging such scenarios. The basic goal is to put students into an urgently engaging and self-unfolding scenario, trusting them to carry it forward, while being prepared to join in as needed.This book offers a conceptual and practical framework for Teaching as Staging, grounding the approach with illustrative and sometimes provocative narrative from the literature as well as the author's own practice.Teaching as the Art of Staging offers a visionary challenge to the prevailing models of pedagogy. The book presents a thoroughly practical model that opens up new possibilities for anyone interested in dramatic new directions in teaching and learning.

Addresses the looming issue of retirement in higher education as the cohort of boomer generation faculty come to the close of their careers. The book offers clear messages about the need for greater transparency in addressing retirement and transitions, for better communication, and for close coordination between HR and academic administrators.

Presenting new empirical evidence and employing fresh theoretical perspectives, this book sheds new light on the challenges that Black Students face from the time they apply to college through their lives on campus.

The book discusses the history and philosophy of MSS units; describes their operation; asserts the need for integration and coherence across the multiple facets of their work and how their role is influenced by the character and type of their institutions; and considers the challenges and opportunities ahead. .

Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions is a state-of-the art overview of advances in theories and practices relevant to the assessment of academic English skills for higher education admissions purposes.

Constituting one in twelve of adult Americans, GED certificate holders comprise a major pool of underdeveloped human capital. This is the first book to remedy the dearth of data on this forgotten population, to present original research on these students, and to provide models for identifying and graduating this underestimated cohort.

Examines the trajectory of Black males through the educational pipeline from pre-school through college. In doing so the book not only contributes to the scholarship on the experiences of this population, but bridges the gap between theory and practice to provide models that will improve these young men's educational outcomes.

Are your violence prevention and mental health efforts on campus coordinated? Recent campus crises have highlighted that campus administrators will be judged by three things: What the campus was doing before the crisis, its immediate response during the crisis, and the follow-up after the crisis.

The experiences of first-generation college students are not monolithic. The nexus of identities matter, and this book is intended to challenge the reader to explore what it means to be a first-generation college student in higher education.

The experiences of first-generation college students are not monolithic. The nexus of identities matter, and this book is intended to challenge the reader to explore what it means to be a first-generation college student in higher education.

This book examines the evolution of appeals, media, and tactics in right-wing media and political communication, tracking trends from the early days of contemporary conservatism in the 1950s to the Trump administration. It will interest scholars and upper-level students of political communication, media and politics, and political science.

This highly readable book provides a comprehensive examination of the use of Open Dialogue as a treatment for psychosis. It presents the basic principles and practice of Open Dialogue, explains the training needed to implement it and explores how it is being offered internationally.

From phonological processing to brain research to orthographic mapping to self-teaching hypothesis, Shifting the Balance cuts through the rhetoric (and the sciencey science) to offer readers a practical guide to decision-making about beginning reading instruction.

This volume defends the notion of humankind in the face of artificial intelligence. Responding to anti-humanist challenges to traditional arguments establishing human worth in nature, it defends humanity with the argument that technological 'advances' introduced artificially into some humans do not annul their fundamental human qualities.

In 1797 Robert Southey published a richly detailed account of his journey in Spain and Portugal between December 1795 and May 1796, from his arrival in Coruna in the northwest of the Spanish coast to the heart of Castile and into Madrid, before making his way to Lisbon. Structured as a series of letters written as he travelled across the Iberian Peninsula, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal engages with the tradition of English travelogues, while borrowing traits from other genres such as the journal, translation, literary criticism, history, and the picturesque guidebook. On his way, Southey comments on every aspect of Spanish and Portuguese society, from local food and wine, bizarre customs, literature and theatregoing, to Iberian politics and religion. In his letters Southey, who would grow to become one of the leading Hispanists in late Georgian England, contrasts the political, religious, cultural and social systems of Britain and two of the oldest nations in the European continent in a way that raises important questions about cultural contact and transmission during the Romantic period. This edition critically reassesses Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal by looking at SoutheyΓÇÖs deeply ambiguous cultural cosmopolitanism and his life-long investment in all things Spanish and Portuguese.

Teaching Science offers major leaps forward in understanding knowledge, language and pedagogy that will shape the research agenda far beyond science education.

This book traces the development of diverse British cultures of outer space, utilizing key geographical concepts such as landscape, place, and national identity.

Based on a totally different way of thinking about, understanding, and acting to increase transfer student success, this book introduces a stimulating array of new perspectives, resources, options, models, and recommendations for addressing the many needs of this huge cohort.

A book about student success and how to support and improve it. It takes as its point of departure that we reflect together in a purposeful and informed way about how our teaching, curricula, the co-curriculum, and assessment work in concert to support and improve student learning and success.

Based on a totally different way of thinking about, understanding, and acting to increase transfer student success, this book introduces a stimulating array of new perspectives, resources, options, models, and recommendations for addressing the many needs of this huge cohort.

Offers higher education professionals a way to measure the degree of equality taking place in work environments across institutional settings. It frames the relevant issues and nationwide surveys that reveal the current professional landscape. The goal is to offer a standardized way to identify both unjust and equitable labour practices that impact adjunct faculty on campus.