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A Case for Teaching Literature in the Secondary School

Why Reading Fiction Matters in an Age of Scientific Objectivity and Standardization

By: Janet Alsup

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A Case for Teaching Literature in the Secondary School

Why Reading Fiction Matters in an Age of Scientific Objectivity and Standardization

By: Janet Alsup

Taking a close look at the forces that affect English education in schools—at the ways literature, cognitive science, the privileging of the STEM disciplines, and current educational policies are connected—this timely book counters with a strong argument for the importance of continuing to teach literature in middle and secondary classrooms. The case is made through critical examination of the ongoing "culture wars" between the humanities and the sciences, recent research in cognitive literary studies demonstrating the power of narrative reading, and an analysis of educational trends that have marginalized literature teaching in the U.S., including standards-based and scripted curricula. The book is distinctive in presenting both a synthesis of arguments for literary study in the middle and high school and sample lesson plans from practicing teachers exemplifying how literature can positively influence adolescents’ intellectual, emotional, and social selves.

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1317585046

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Millennial Teacher Identity Discourses

Balancing Self and Other

By: Janet Alsup

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Millennial Teacher Identity Discourses

Balancing Self and Other

By: Janet Alsup

Over ten years after the original edition of Teacher Identity Discourses, Janet Alsup revisits her work with a new research study examining the characteristics of the millennial teachers now beginning to populate K-12 classrooms. Building off the first edition, this text is based on a qualitative, interview-based research study, and provides a contemporary look at how millennial teachers experience professional identity growth through language use. This innovative research investigates how formation of a professional identity is central in the process of becoming an effective teacher. Updated with new analyses of teacher identity discourses, the second edition covers themes that still resonate today and provides practical suggestions and sample assignments for teacher educators to use or adapt in methods courses.

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1351036521

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Teacher Identity Discourses

Negotiating Personal and Professional Spaces

By: Janet Alsup

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Teacher Identity Discourses

Negotiating Personal and Professional Spaces

By: Janet Alsup

Addresses the various types of discourse within the process of professional identity development. This work emphasizes that the intersection of the personal and professional in teacher identity formation is more complex, and accents the need for teacher educators to take steps to facilitate such integration.

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1135600139

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9781135600136

Millennial Teacher Identity Discourses

Balancing Self and Other

By: Janet Alsup

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Balancing Self and Other

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Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience

A socio-cultural and critical guide to action

By: Bruce Johnson,Barry Down,Rosie Le Cornu,Judy Peters,Anna Sullivan,Jane Pearce,Janet Hunter

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Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience

A socio-cultural and critical guide to action

By: Bruce Johnson,Barry Down,Rosie Le Cornu,Judy Peters,Anna Sullivan,Jane Pearce,Janet Hunter

Offers a rich set of narratives, largely from an ‘insiders’ point of view, to help us create an alternative conception and practice of critical teacher resilience based on the principles and values of teacher empowerment, participatory democracy and social justice. Provides an alternative socio-cultural and critical approach to teacher resilience, challenging the implicit assumption that resilience primarily resides within individuals. Seeks to empower graduate teachers by helping them to comprehend the ways in which individual ‘personal troubles’ are neither unique nor isolated but are ‘public issues’ shaped by wider historic and structural patterns and movements in the social world. Written by a team of authors who are experts in the field of teacher resilience.

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1317595831

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Early Career Teachers

Stories of Resilience

By: Bruce Johnson,Barry Down,Rosie Le Cornu,Judy Peters,Anna Sullivan,Jane Pearce,Janet Hunter

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Early Career Teachers

Stories of Resilience

By: Bruce Johnson,Barry Down,Rosie Le Cornu,Judy Peters,Anna Sullivan,Jane Pearce,Janet Hunter

This book addresses one of the most persistent issues confronting governments, educations systems and schools today: the attraction, preparation, and retention of early career teachers. It draws on the stories of sixty graduate teachers from Australia to identify the key barriers, interferences and obstacles to teacher resilience and what might be done about it. Based on these stories, five interrelated themes - policies and practices, school culture, teacher identity, teachers’ work, and relationships – provide a framework for dialogue around what kinds of conditions need to be created and sustained in order to promote early career teacher resilience. The book provides a set of resources – stories, discussion, comments, reflective questions and insights from the literature – to promote conversations among stakeholders rather than providing yet another ‘how to do’ list for improving the daily lives of early career teachers. Teaching is a complex, fragile and uncertain profession. It operates in an environment of unprecedented educational reforms designed to control, manage and manipulate pedagogical judgements. Teacher resilience must take account of both the context and circumstances of individual schools (especially those in economically disadvantaged communities) and the diversity of backgrounds and talents of early career teachers themselves. The book acknowledges that the substantial level of change required– cultural, structural, pedagogical and relational – to improve early career teacher resilience demands a great deal of cooperation and support from governments, education systems, schools, universities and communities: teachers cannot do it alone. This book is written to generate conversations amongst early career teachers, teacher colleagues, school leaders, education administrators, academics and community leaders about the kinds of pedagogical and relational conditions required to promote early career teacher resilience and wellbeing.

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Springer

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981287173X

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9789812871732

Every Landlord's Legal Guide

By: Marcia Stewart,Janet Portman,Ann O’Connell

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Every Landlord's Legal Guide

By: Marcia Stewart,Janet Portman,Ann O’Connell

The legal forms and state rules every landlord and property manager needs To keep up with the law and make money as a residential landlord, you need a guide you can trust: Every Landlord's Legal Guide. From move-in to move-out, here’s help with legal, financial, and day-to-day issues. You’ll avoid hassles and headaches―not to mention legal fees and lawsuits. Use this top-selling book to: screen and choose tenants prepare leases and rental agreements avoid discrimination, invasion of privacy, personal injury, and other lawsuits hire a property manager keep up with repairs and maintenance make security deposit deductions handle broken leases learn how to terminate a tenancy for nonpayment of rent or other lease violations restrict tenants from renting their place on Airbnb, and deal with bedbugs, mold, and lead hazards. The 16th edition is completely revised to provide your state’s current laws, covering deposits, rent, entry, termination, late rent notices, and more. Comes With Access to Free Downloadable Forms: includes access to more than 30 essential legal forms including a lease and rental agreement, rental application, notice of entry, tenant repair request, security deposit itemization, property manager agreement, and more. IMPORTANT NOTE: You DO NOT have to pay more to use the downloadable forms—please see Appendix B in the book for the link to and instructions for using the downloadable forms that come with the book.

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545

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Nolo

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1413329764

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9781413329766

Every Tenant's Legal Guide

By: Janet Portman,Ann O'Connell

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Every Tenant's Legal Guide

By: Janet Portman,Ann O'Connell

Renters have many legal rights— learn yours and how to protect them! The only book of its kind, Every Tenant’s Legal Guide gives you the legal and practical information you need (plus dozens of sample letters and forms) to find a great rental and landlord. Learn your rights regarding pets, guests, deposits, and privacy, and find out how to: • notify your landlord about needed repairs and use rent withholding or repair-and-deduct if you have to • avoid disputes with roommates over rent, deposits, guests, and noise • fight illegal discrimination, retaliation, or sexual harassment • navigate state and local rent control laws • deal with hazards like lead paint, mold, and bed bugs • break a lease with minimum liability, and • get your security deposit returned on time. The 11th edition of Every Tenant’s Legal Guide includes charts detailing every state’s landlord-tenant laws. This edition also includes information on how to deal with large, impersonal corporate landlords and the competitive rental markets found in nearly every state.

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Nolo

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1413331734

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Renters' Rights

By: Janet Portman,Ann O’Connell

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Renters' Rights

By: Janet Portman,Ann O’Connell

This book on renter and tenant rights is packed with critical legal and practical information on topics such as negotiating a lease or rental agreement, breaking a lease and leaving early, handling unwelcome landlord intrusions, getting a landlord to make repairs, collecting a full security deposit after moving out, fighting discrimination or retaliation, and more"--

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1413331432

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Teacher Identity Discourses

Negotiating Personal and Professional Spaces

By: Janet Alsup

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Teacher Identity Discourses

Negotiating Personal and Professional Spaces

By: Janet Alsup

In this book, Janet Alsup reports and theorizes a multi-layered study of teacher identity development. The study, which followed six pre-service English education students, was designed to investigate her hypothesis that forming (or failing to form) a professional identity is central in the process of becoming an effective teacher. This work addresses the intersection of various types of discourse within the process of professional identity development, emphasizes that the intersection of the personal and professional in teacher identity formation is more complex than is acknowledged in typical methods classes, and accents the need for teacher educators to take steps to facilitate such integration. Specific suggestions for methods courses are presented that teacher educators can use as is or adapt to their own contexts. Teacher Identity Discourses: Negotiating Personal and Professional Spaces speaks eloquently to faculty, researchers, and graduate students across the field of teacher education.

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Routledge

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1135600120

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9781135600129

Janet Laurence

After Eden

By: Janet Laurence

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Janet Laurence

After Eden

By: Janet Laurence

A new commission, In After Eden, Janet continues her exploration of the destruction of the environment with particular emphasis on the plight of animals, whilst simultaneously attempting to address notions of healing and caring.

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Power Publications at the University of Illinois Press

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0980776333

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9780980776331

The Fourth Generation: Reminiscences by Janet Ross

By: Janet Ross

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The Fourth Generation: Reminiscences by Janet Ross

By: Janet Ross

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Sagwan Press

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1340505673

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9781340505677

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A Case for Teaching Literature in the Secondary School

A Case for Teaching Literature in the Secondary School

Millennial Teacher Identity Discourses

Millennial Teacher Identity Discourses

Teacher Identity Discourses

Teacher Identity Discourses

Millennial Teacher Identity Discourses

Millennial Teacher Identity Discourses

Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience

Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience

Early Career Teachers

Early Career Teachers

Every Landlord's Legal Guide

Every Landlord's Legal Guide

Every Tenant's Legal Guide

Every Tenant's Legal Guide

Renters' Rights

Renters' Rights

Teacher Identity Discourses

Teacher Identity Discourses

Janet Laurence

Janet Laurence

The Fourth Generation: Reminiscences by Janet Ross

The Fourth Generation: Reminiscences by Janet Ross

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