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Teacher Educator International Professional Development as Ren

By: Laura Blythe Liu

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Teacher Educator International Professional Development as Ren

By: Laura Blythe Liu

Teacher-educator international professional development involves personal and professional, research- and practice-oriented, and pragmatic and aesthetic growth. This text encourages teacher educators to explore this work as Ren, or benevolent human beings, in cultivating global professional communities. As faculties engage in Ren as a vital 21st century form of development, new insights may emerge for how to revive and apply this concept in our changing global society. This text begins by discussing evolving concepts of achievement in an era of globalization, contrasting comparative conquest with global notions of relational integrity. Evolving aspects of achievement in 21st century China are also included. The text goes on to explore aspects of 21st century teacher quality and professional development, before presenting a theoretical framework for the international professional development of teacher education faculties as a process of becoming professional individuals, research-based practitioners, and aesthetic engineers. Narrative inquiry, including the aesthetic approach employed in this text, is described as the research method used to explore the development of 15 faculty participants in this text’s case study of one teacher education research center at a Chinese university. Findings from the author’s two-year immersion at the research site involve three overarching “complementary contrasts,” or “tensions held in balance,” across the 15 faculties in this study. These tensions included harmonizing (1) community and individuality, (2) adaptability and expression, and (3) authority and compassion. The findings are discussed in light of the original theoretical framework for teacher-educator international professional development by integrating participant interviews, research publications, and further observations into current academic discourse. The text concludes by offering implications for teacher-education practice, research, and policy for China, and other countries including the U.S., and suggests how the findings connect to global academic discourses on teacher-educator professional development across international settings.

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3662469715

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Turtle's Turn

A Story of Discovery, Hope, and Social Responsibility Gleaned Upon Studying Creation’S Wonders

By: Laura Blythe Liu EdD

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Turtle's Turn

A Story of Discovery, Hope, and Social Responsibility Gleaned Upon Studying Creation’S Wonders

By: Laura Blythe Liu EdD

Join Owl, Turtle, and the Ladybugs in a lesson on how the macro mysteries of our solar system may be found in the micro plant cell wonders of photosynthesis. Turtles Turn is a curricular resource for all ages and may complement best second-grade through graduate levels. The author currently explores integration of this text in teacher education courses and research.

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1490884807

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Teacher Educator International Professional Development as Ren

By: Laura Blythe Liu

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Turtle’S Triumph

Building Hybrid Spaces

By: Laura Blythe Liu Ed.D.

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Turtle’S Triumph

Building Hybrid Spaces

By: Laura Blythe Liu Ed.D.

Turtles Triumph explores the complex, hybrid space of ecological preservation and economic development often intertwined with medical industries. The trial in the story begins as one of choosing sides, while the solution is discovered in paving a new path involving shared perspectives and approaches to sustainable living. Turtles journey appreciates chemistry, explains pollution, and values creative solutions.

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Turtle's Treasure

By: Laura Blythe Liu, Ed.D.

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Turtle's Treasure

By: Laura Blythe Liu, Ed.D.

Turtle’s Treasure is a story of hope, and reflects a spirit needed today to face shared global challenges related to the environment and social responsibility. Join Turtle as she ventures with Owl into their “global” forest community to learn to see these challenges with new eyes and respond to them with a new heart. Turtle’s journey is one that speaks to all ages, and particularly complements home learning and classroom contexts from grade one through graduate levels across fields, such as education, sociology, and global environmental studies. This book is dedicated to the many unrecognized individuals around the world who remind us to live simply.

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Turtle's Tug

A Discovery of Hopeful Kindness as Life’S “More”

By: Laura Blythe Liu EdD

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Turtle's Tug

A Discovery of Hopeful Kindness as Life’S “More”

By: Laura Blythe Liu EdD

Turtles Tug is a journey in learning to understand and empathize with the lives of others. Turtle follows Owl to new reaches of the forest to discover treasured lessons and new friends. Acts of hopeful kindness emerge as one of lifes greatest teachers. This book may be read in home or classroom contexts and intends to complement curricula from the third grade through undergraduate/graduate instruction in teacher education, globalization and sustainability studies, and ethics and morality studies. The author currently explores integrating Turtles Tug and other childrens stories into the field of education, particularly international teacher education and research.

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1490893911

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Sustainable Management of Transnational Megaprojects

By: Dario Cottafava,Daniel Torchia,Stefania Camoletto,Laura Corazza

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Sustainable Management of Transnational Megaprojects

By: Dario Cottafava,Daniel Torchia,Stefania Camoletto,Laura Corazza

This book analyses the seminal role of megaprojects for sustainable development, and the related, complex challenges they bring. It provides insights into the growing social responsibilities that megaprojects have, not only to be environmentally sustainable, but also towards the multitude of stakeholders involved, whether directly or indirectly. After an historical overview of the increasingly necessary links between sustainable infrastructure and megaprojects, the book builds on and applies stakeholder theory to stakeholder engagement and management in megaprojects. It also emphasizes the importance of building impact assessment frameworks that consider the unheard voices that are often passively sitting at the receiving end of a megaproject, as well as the local context where the megaproject is embedded. The book then proceeds to analyse the case of a very contested transnational railway megaproject between Italy and France, the Turin-Lyon high-speed railway, which has been suffering from stakeholder and communication issues for over thirty years, as well as from notable managerial and legal differences in the two countries. In this way, the book informs both theory and practice and encourages scholarly interventions into wicked problems. It contains a comprehensive review of the academic literature on the sustainability, sustainability challenges, and sustainability reporting of megaprojects. Conceptual models, frameworks and future research opportunities are provided to clarify the empirical challenges and highlight the gaps and opportunities to be explored by researchers and practitioners in future. The audience for the book is both academic researchers and practitioners in the field of megaprojects and more specifically, those dealing with managing transnational megaprojects. It also includes several topics that will be of interest to policy and decision-makers.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040045111

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Turtle's Tug

A Discovery of Hopeful Kindness as Life’S “More”

By: Laura Blythe Liu EdD

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Turtle's Turn

A Story of Discovery, Hope, and Social Responsibility Gleaned Upon Studying Creation’S Wonders

By: Laura Blythe Liu EdD

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A Story of Discovery, Hope, and Social Responsibility Gleaned Upon Studying Creation’S Wonders

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Turtle's Tug: A Discovery of Hopeful Kindness as Life's More

By: Edd Laura Blythe Liu

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Turtle's Tug: A Discovery of Hopeful Kindness as Life's More

By: Edd Laura Blythe Liu

Turtle's Tug is a journey in learning to understand and empathize with the lives of others. Turtle follows Owl to new reaches of the forest to discover treasured lessons and new friends. Acts of hopeful kindness emerge as one of life's greatest teachers. This book may be read in home or classroom contexts and intends to complement curricula from the third grade through undergraduate/graduate instruction in teacher education, globalization and sustainability studies, and ethics and morality studies. The author currently explores integrating Turtle's Tug and other children's stories into the field of education, particularly international teacher education and research.

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Turtle's Treasure

By: Laura Blythe Liu, Ed.D.

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Turtle's Turn

A Story of Discovery, Hope, and Social Responsibility Gleaned Upon Studying Creation's Wonders

By: Laura Blythe Liu Edd

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A Story of Discovery, Hope, and Social Responsibility Gleaned Upon Studying Creation's Wonders

By: Laura Blythe Liu Edd

Join Owl, Turtle, and the Ladybugs in a lesson on how the macro mysteries of our solar system may be found in the micro plant cell wonders of photosynthesis. Turtle's Turn is a curricular resource for all ages and may complement best second-grade through graduate levels. The author currently explores integration of this text in teacher education courses and research.

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Turtle’S Triumph

Building Hybrid Spaces

By: Laura Blythe Liu Ed.D.

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Building Hybrid Spaces

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Turtle's Triumph

Building Hybrid Spaces

By: Ed. D. Laura Blythe Liu

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Building Hybrid Spaces

By: Ed. D. Laura Blythe Liu

Turtle's Triumph explores the complex, hybrid space of ecological preservation and economic development often intertwined with medical industries. The trial in the story begins as one of choosing sides, while the solution is discovered in paving a new path involving shared perspectives and approaches to sustainable living. Turtle's journey appreciates chemistry, explains pollution, and values creative solutions.

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Teacher Educator International Professional Development as Ren

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