This book provides a significant contribution to conversations about teacher quality and graduate readiness for teaching. It presents empirical insights into how a multidisciplinary team of researchers, teacher educators, and policy personnel mobilized for collective change in a standards-driven reform initiative. The insights are research-informed and critically relevant for anyone interested in teacher preparation and credentialing. It gives an account of a bold move to install a collaborative culture of evidence-informed inquiry to professionalize teacher education. The centerpiece of the book is the use of standards and evidence to show the quality of graduates entering the teaching workforce. The book presents, for the first time, a model of online cross-institutional moderation as benchmarking to generate large-scale evidence of the quality of teacher education. The book also introduces a new conceptualization of a feedback loop using summative data for accountability and formative data to inform curriculum review and program renewal. This book offers the insider story of the conceptualization, design, and implementation of the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA). It involves going to scale with a large group of Australian universities, government agencies, and schools, and using participatory approaches to advance new thinking about evidence-informed inquiry, cross-institutional moderation, and innovative digital infrastructure. The discussion of competence assessment, standards, and change processes presented in the book has relevance beyond teacher education to other professions.
Deleuze and Guattari never identified as anarchists, nor do they seem to know much about its historical development or continued praxis. Yet their individual and collective work belies this apparent and wilful oversight through a steady consideration of revolutionary subjectivity and active political experimentation. Chantelle Gray argues that while we cannot - and should not - attempt to call them anarchists, their work resonates with core anarchist principles such as prefiguration, careful experimentation and emergent strategies aimed at creating a feeling that life is worth living. This involves paying attention to both joyous affects and sad passions, which necessitates the affirmation of all of chance and, from that, fabulating new modes of existence. By bringing together the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari with the theory and practices of anarchism, this book demonstrates that fabulating the future is nothing short of a noetic act, making reasonable something which initially was senseless.
This book proposes to expand multiliteracies frameworks in second language education, by recognizing that learning a new language and culture involves both designs and desires, the affects and emotions that feed our responses to particular ways of making meaning. Over the past two decades, multiliteracies approaches to second language education have brought attention to the diversity of modes, media, language varieties, and discourses involved in what we often shorthand as language learning. A core concept in these discussions is the idea of meaning design, the idea that languages are dynamic, culturally-shaped systems of resources for engaging with and making sense of the world. Building on these discussions and drawing inspiration and practical examples from a variety of modern language classes in higher education in the USA, the book demonstrates how poetic and playful language can be embedded in multiliteracies pedagogy in ways that foster learners' and teachers' awareness of designs, while also making space for desires that are harder to script or plan for. In addition to building a conceptual map around poetics and play for researchers and teachers in language education, the book offers concrete examples of what a multiliteracies approach emphasizing designs and desires can look like in classrooms and curricula.
Say “I do” to three prince heroes in this collection of classic royal wedding romances. Crowned for the Prince’s Heir — Sharon Kendrick Dress designer Lisa Bailey reluctantly broke off her relationship with Luc, knowing an affair with the prince had no future. But one last stolen encounter left her quaking with passion, drenched in desire and unexpectedly pregnant! Months later, Prince Luciano Leonides of Mardovia is on the brink of the perfect political marriage when a news article shows Lisa with an obvious bump! Now he must claim his heir at any cost. She may be an unsuitable bride but she will become his queen! A Night in the Prince’s Bed — Chantelle Shaw Beautiful Mina Hart has overcome her hearing challenge to become a leading theater actress. Then, one stolen night with a gorgeous stranger turns into headline news when it’s revealed he is the prince of Storvhal. Devastated when he accuses her of using him for publicity, Mina travels to his icy Scandinavian country to proclaim her innocence. A heavy snowfall traps them inside Prince Aksel’s private retreat, and now she must rely on her senses to read this haunted and intensely private prince! Becoming the Prince’s Wife — Rebecca Winters Attorney Carolena Baretti keeps her cards close to her chest. Except a chance encounter with the handsome prince ignites a fiery attraction, and Carolena finds that he may just be the one man she can trust…. Crown prince Valentino is increasingly distracted from his duty by commoner Carolena. But Valentino is playing with fire. To be with Carolena he would have to sacrifice everything—including his right to the throne….
Beautiful Mina Hart has overcome her hearing impairment to become a leading theater actress. But one stolen night with a gorgeous stranger turns into headline news when it's revealed he is the prinec of Storvhal."--Page 4 of cover.
Because This Land Is Who We Are is an exploration of environmental repossession, told through a collaborative case study approach, and engaging with Indigenous communities in Canada (Anishinaabe), Hawai'i (Kanaka Maoli) and Aotearoa (Maori). The co-authors are all Indigenous scholars, community leaders and activists who are actively engaged in the movements underway in these locations, and able to describe the unique and common strategies of repossession practices taking place in each community. This book celebrates Indigenous ways of knowing, relating to and honouring the land, and the authors' contributions emphasize the efforts taking place in their own Indigenous land. Through engagement with these varying cultural imperatives, the wider goal of Because This Land Is Who We Are is to broaden both theoretical and applied concepts of environmental repossession, and to empower any Indigenous community around the world which is struggling to assert its rights to land.
Motherhood doesn't come with an instruction manual, but this book gets incredibly close to serving as the guidebook for mothers who want to not only survive, but THRIVE, in both their family and personal lives. Written by more than 60 mothers from a variety of situations and backgrounds, Deliberate Motherhood presents inspiring ideas, poignant stories, and practical applications to help mothers find great success and personal growth in the beautiful and challenging work of raising the next generation.
Proof Of Their Forbidden Night - Chantelle Shaw Greek CEO Andreas knows seducing innocent Isla would be a huge mistake. She’s completely off-limits! But thrown together on an Aegean island paradise, neither can resist indulging in their illicit temptation... Her Boss’s One-Night Baby - Jennie Lucas Billionaire Antonio decided early in life he’d never become a father. So, Hana’s baby bombshell, delivered amongst the cherry blossoms, seems impossible. But the undeniable proof awakens in Antonio a ruthless need to secure what’s his... Demanding His Billion-Dollar Heir - Pippa Roscoe Maria was the only woman to see the man behind incredibly wealthy Matthieu’s scars. Yet, to protect her, he pushed her away. Now, Maria is back, with an announcement that leads the tycoon to question everything: ‘I’m pregnant.’ The Scandal Behind The Italian’s Wedding - Millie Adams Min will do anything to protect the baby in her arms, including asking billionaire Dante to make her his bride. And if their scandalous wedding wasn’t enough, once they get to paradise Min has another revelation... Mills & Boon Modern — Seduction, glamour and sinfully seductive heroes await you in luxurious international locations.
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