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Subject Knowledge and Teacher Education

The Development of Beginning Teachers' Thinking

By: Viv Ellis

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Subject Knowledge and Teacher Education

The Development of Beginning Teachers' Thinking

By: Viv Ellis

Teachers' knowledge of the subjects they teach has been of enduring interest to governments, the profession and the wider society. In this book, Viv Ellis traces the development of three beginning teachers thinking about their subject knowledge in the context of Standards-based teacher education and the practice of auditing student teachers' subject knowledge. Ellis puts forward a theory of subject knowledge development that moves on from the objectivist and individualistic epistemologies associated with Standards and the practices of auditing to more a contextualist and sociocultural understanding of teachers' cognition and learning. An important implication of this study is that if teacher education wishes to have greater impact on the development of beginning teachers, teacher educators need to pay greater attention to the schools and subject department settings in which these beginning teachers learn.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441119019

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Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World

Pedigree of Nations

By: Viv Edwards

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Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World

Pedigree of Nations

By: Viv Edwards

Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World is the winner of the BAAL Book Prize 2005. Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World: Pedigree of Nations explores the consequences of English as a global language and multilingualism as a social phenomenon. Written accessibly, it explores the extent of diversity in ‘inner circle’ English speaking countries (the UK, the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand) and examines language in the home, school, and the wider community. Considers the perspectives of English as a global language as well as multilingualism as a social phenomenon. Written in an accessible style that draws on contemporary real life examples. Examines the everyday realities of people living in 'inner circle' English-speaking countries, such as the UK, USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Discusses the theoretical issues that underpin current debates, drawing on research literature on societal multilingualism, language maintenance and shift, language policy, language and power, and language and identity.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470754761

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9780470754764

The New Political Economy of Teacher Education

The Enterprise Narrative and the Shadow State

By: Viv Ellis,Lauren Gatti,Warwick Mansell

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The New Political Economy of Teacher Education

The Enterprise Narrative and the Shadow State

By: Viv Ellis,Lauren Gatti,Warwick Mansell

Viv Ellis, Lauren Gatti and Warwick Mansell present a unique and international analysis of teacher education policy. Adopting a political economy perspective, this distinctive text provides a comparative analysis of three contrasting welfare state models – the US, England and Norway – following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Arguing that a new political economy of teacher education began to emerge in the decade following the GFC, the authors explore key concepts in education privatisation and examine the increasingly important role of shadow state enterprises in some jurisdictions. This topical text demonstrates the potential of a political economy approach when analysing education policies regarding pre-service teacher education and continuing professional development.

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Policy Press

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1447359097

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9781447359098

PSHE in the Primary School

Principles and Practice

By: Gillian Goddard,Viv Smith,Carol Boycott

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PSHE in the Primary School

Principles and Practice

By: Gillian Goddard,Viv Smith,Carol Boycott

PSHE in the Primary School: Principles and Practice is an exciting new textbook to support, inform and inspire trainees, teachers and support staff at primary level. This unique text bonds essential subject knowledge with practical teaching skills, and covers topical issues such as bullying, resilience, behaviour for learning, and sex and relationships education. The book is divided into four distinct parts: Social Development and Education, including conflict resolution and celebrating diversity; Personal Development and Education, tackling topics such as emotional literacy and coping with life transitions; Coordinating PSHE offers guidance for new and aspiring PSHE coordinators in all aspects of their role, including curriculum design and assessment; and the final part looks to The Future of PSHE.

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Routledge

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1317860985

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9781317860983

Keeping Quiet: Paul Nixon

The Autobiography

By: Jon Colman,Paul Nixon,Steve Waugh,Viv Richards

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Keeping Quiet: Paul Nixon

The Autobiography

By: Jon Colman,Paul Nixon,Steve Waugh,Viv Richards

From Gower to Flintoff, Waugh to Vaughan, Cronje to Pietersen, Paul Nixon has shared a dressing room with some of the most evocative names in international and domestic cricket – and often enraged them on the field of play. The wicketkeeper, known as his sport’s most prolific ‘sledger’, has amassed more than 20 years of stories from his career at the heart of the game and now reveals them in typically outspoken style.From ‘Fredalo’ to match-fixing, Nixon has experienced some of the most notorious episodes in cricket history, possesses strident opinions on the game and has a track record of success in the English first-class game and the Twenty20 revolution. With an accent on off-the-field anecdotes, Nixon also lays bare the personality that led the Australian legend Steve Waugh to compare him to: ‘a mosquito buzzing around in the night, that needs to be swatted but always escapes.’

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The History Press

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075248253X

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9780752482538

Transforming Teacher Education

Reconfiguring the Academic Work

By: Viv Ellis,Jane McNicholl

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Transforming Teacher Education

Reconfiguring the Academic Work

By: Viv Ellis,Jane McNicholl

Teacher education has a central role in the improvement of educational systems around the world but what do the teacher educators in universities and colleges actually do? Day-to-day, how do they support the learning and development of the thousands of new teachers we need every year? And why does this matter? Drawing on recent research by the authors, situated in the growing international literature, Transforming Teacher Education puts these questions in cultural and historical context and offers a practical answer in the form of an original agenda for the transformation of current conditions in teacher education with future designs for practice. Viv Ellis and Jane McNicholl argue that the academic work of teacher education needs to be reconfigured in order to stimulate the renewal of the profession of teaching and to develop new modes of educational research that will have impact on practice as well as building the discipline of Education within the universities. They offer suggestions for future designs for teacher education, drawing not only on the latest research in teacher learning and development but from across the social sciences.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472511840

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9781472511843

The Anna Karenina Fix

Life Lessons from Russian Literature

By: Viv Groskop

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The Anna Karenina Fix

Life Lessons from Russian Literature

By: Viv Groskop

“In this hilarious, candid, and thought-provoking memoir, [Groskop] explains how she used lessons from Russian classics to understand herself better.” —Gretchen Rubin, #1 New York Times–bestselling author As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian classics: from not being sure what to do with your life (Anna Karenina), to being hopelessly in love with someone who doesn’t love you back (Turgenev’s A Month in the Country), or being socially anxious about your appearance (all of Chekhov’s work). In The Anna Karenina Fix, a sort of literary self-help memoir, Groskop mines these and other works, as well as the lives of their celebrated creators, and her own experiences as a student of Russian, to answer the question “How should you live your life?” This is a charming and fiercely intelligent book, a love letter to Russian literature and an exploration of the answers these writers found to life’s questions. “[Groskop is] a delight, a reader’s reader whose professional and personal experiences have allowed her to write the kind of book that not only is complete unto itself, but makes you want to head to the library and revisit or discover the great works she loves.” —The Washington Post “Learn how to hack life nineteenth-century Russian style! You’ll totally be like Anna Karenina without getting (spoiler alert) run over by a train!” —Gary Shteyngart, New York Times-bestselling author “For anyone intimidated by Russia’s daunting literary heritage, this humorous yet thoughtful introduction will serve as the perfect entrée.” —Publishers Weekly

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Abrams

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1683353447

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Developing a Narrative Approach to Healthcare Research

By: Viv Martin

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Developing a Narrative Approach to Healthcare Research

By: Viv Martin

Patients' perspectives on their experiences of illness and treatment are increasingly valued by the medical profession as a source of information to enhance professional development, peer support and the quality of care provided. This book explores the development of an in-depth, relational and reflexive approach to narrative inquiry, drawing on counselling and arts-based approaches to researching accounts of illness. The significance of patient stories is explored through narrative research conversations with people whose personal accounts of a range of conditions provide powerful insights into the impact of illness on identity, life stories and the experience of patienthood. It offers suggestions for using narrative methods in medical education and practice to help professionals to both attend to patients' narratives and reflect on their own stories. Developing a Narrative Approach to Healthcare Research will be of interest to educators, practitioners, students and researchers in healthcare and the social sciences. 'I will recommend this book to my students; I hope other healthcare professionals will do the same and that some, like me, will go on to explore how narrative and story can be harnessed to both explore experience and to teach within healthcare.' - from the Foreword by Karen Forbes 'I would recommend this book to everybody who is involved in caring for people who suffer serious illness - whether they are professionals, family or friends. I also recommend it to social scientists and health professionals who want to conduct research in ways that capture the richness of peoples' lived experience.' - Kim Etherington, Professor of Narrative and Life Story Research, University of Bristol, UK.

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CRC Press

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1315357348

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Learning at the Museum Frontiers

Identity, Race and Power

By: Viv Golding

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Learning at the Museum Frontiers

Identity, Race and Power

By: Viv Golding

In Learning at the Museum Frontiers, Viv Golding argues that the museum has the potential to function as a frontier - a zone where learning is created, new identities are forged and new connections made between disparate groups and their own histories. She draws on a range of theoretical perspectives including Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, Foucauldian discourse on space and power, and postcolonial and Black feminist theory, as well as her own professional experience in museum education over a ten-year period, applying these ideas to a wide range of museum contexts. The book offers an important theoretical and empirical contribution to the debate on the value of museums and what they can contribute to society. The author reveals the radical potential for museums to tackle injustice and social exclusion, challenge racism, enhance knowledge and promote truth.

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Routledge

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1317106660

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Policing South Wales Docks

An Illustrated History

By: Viv Head

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Policing South Wales Docks

An Illustrated History

By: Viv Head

A fascinating illustrated history of South Wales' world famous docks and the police that guard them.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445673673

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To Throw Away Unopened

By: Viv Albertine

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To Throw Away Unopened

By: Viv Albertine

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2018 What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic. Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to Clothes, Music, Boys, Viv Albertine has reinvented the genre with her unflinching honesty. To Throw Away Unopened is a fearless dissection of one woman's obsession with the truth - the truth about family, power, and her identity as a rebel and outsider. It is a gaping wound of a book, both an exercise in blood-letting and psychological archaeology, excavating what lies beneath: the fear, the loneliness, the anger. It is a brutal expose of human dysfunctionality, the impossibility of true intimacy, and the damage wrought upon us by secrets and revelations, siblings and parents. Yet it is also a testament to how we can rebuild ourselves and come to face the world again. It is a portrait of the love stories that constitute a life, often bringing as much pain as joy. With the inimitable blend of humour, vulnerability, and intelligence that makes Viv Albertine one of our finest authors working today, To Throw Away Unopened smashes through layers of propriety and leads us into a new place of savage self-discovery.

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Faber & Faber

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0571326234

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9780571326235

The World in a Classroom

Language in Education in Britain and Canada

By: Edwards, Viv,Angela Redfern

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The World in a Classroom

Language in Education in Britain and Canada

By: Edwards, Viv,Angela Redfern

A comparative study of how British and Canadian schools have responded in recent decades to the needs of multilingual populations. In particular, it examines language policies, the teaching of English, classroom responses to linguistic and cultural diversity, and community/heritage language teaching.

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Multilingual Matters

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1853591580

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9781853591587

Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children

By: Peter Thomson,Viv Gardner

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Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children

By: Peter Thomson,Viv Gardner

This is the first comprehensive study of Brecht's Mother Courage. Peter Thomson locates the sources of the play in Brecht's own experience and heritage, and provides a detailed account of Brecht's own production with the newly formed Berliner Ensemble in 1949. Thomson then explores how the play has been transmitted in the English-speaking theatre from Joan Littlewood's production with the Theatre Workshop Company in 1956 to the Royal National Theatre, with Diana Rigg as Mother Courage, in 1995. The book also examines such influential interpretations as those by William Gaskill, Judi Dench, and Glenda Jackson in the English theatre, and by Herbert Balu and Richard Schechner in America. Seminal productions in France and the Germanies are also discussed. A final chapter highlights the new urgency of the text in light of the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and closes with an account of a triumphant staging in Uganda.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521597749

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9780521597746

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.

A Memoir

By: Viv Albertine

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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.

A Memoir

By: Viv Albertine

First published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Ltd"--Title page verso.

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Macmillan

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1250065992

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9781250065995

Developing Professional Practice 7-14

By: Viv Wilson,Sue Kendall-Seatter

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Developing Professional Practice 7-14

By: Viv Wilson,Sue Kendall-Seatter

Developing Professional Practice 7-14 provides a thoroughly comprehensive and cutting edge guide to developing the necessary knowledge, skills and understanding for teaching within the 7-14 age range. This book is designed to guide you through your initial teacher training programme, and on into the early stages of your career, with the aim of stimulating and supporting you in the process of developing your practice. A range of pedagogical features are provided in each chapter to encourage reflection, interaction and debate. Over to you features pose questions that will encourage you to examine your own knowledge, understanding and practical skills. Working in the Classroom features will help you to envisage how the material covered might impact on your classroom practice Case studies offer extended examples that help illustrate core concepts and theories in action. Controversy features provide in-depth discussion of issues that are ongoing causes for debate Research briefing boxes explore recent research studies, and explain their bearing on day to day practice Additional resources and support are provided via the Developing Professional Practice companion website, www.pearsoned.co.uk/7-14, where you can access additional self-study questions, case studies, interactive chapter-by-chapter tutorials, interviews with practitioners and students, and a glossary of key terms. Developing Professional Practice 7-14 is essential reading for anyone training to teach in primary or secondary schools, as well as those specialising in the middle years specifically. It will also prove an invaluable resource for all those already in the early stages of their careers.

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Routledge

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1317864867

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9781317864868

At a Glance 2nd Edition

A Practical Guide to Children's Special Needs

By: Viv East,Linda Evans

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A Practical Guide to Children's Special Needs

By: Viv East,Linda Evans

Everyone working with children should be aware of different special needs and how they can impact on learning. There is no shortage of information out there but there is a shortage of time in which to research and read up on what teachers need to know! This concise guide provides a wealth of information and advice in an easy-to-read, quick-to-dip-into format.

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A&C Black

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0826491510

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9780826491510

Viv Moon’s OUTDOOR & TRAVELLERS’ COOKBOOK

Your complete, all-inclusive guide expanded and now with 513 fabulous recipes

By: Viv Moon

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Viv Moon’s OUTDOOR & TRAVELLERS’ COOKBOOK

Your complete, all-inclusive guide expanded and now with 513 fabulous recipes

By: Viv Moon

VIV & RON MOON have spent much of their lives exploring and writing about Australia’s wild and remote areas. In their travels they combine many interests such as 4wd touring, camping, canoeing, photography and camp fire cooking. Since 2007 they have spent over 8 years Overlanding around the world. Their adventures both within Australia and overseas continue today. Viv commenced writing her Camp Fire Cooking column in 4x4 Australia magazine well over 35 years ago, and her column appeared in the magazine for 30 years and was one of the magazine's most popular features. Over the last 35 years or more Viv has been called upon to cater and cook on a number of large 4WD expeditions and for TV documentary shoots in remote areas. Planning and preparation were essential, with no supermarket or roadhouse nearby to replenish supplies, and many skills, not only cooking, were honed during those trips. Her meals and cooking prowess are highly regarded by many far and wide. Viv put all that expertise and knowledge into two cookbooks - Viv Moon's OUTDOOR Cookbook and TRAVELLERS' Cookbook. Both cookbooks have been hugely popular with many editions. Now it's time to combine both of these amazing cookbooks, along with many more recipes, so that all the fabulous recipes, hints and ideas are combined into one extraordinary 533 page cookbook. Viv Moon's OUTDOOR & TRAVELLERS' Cookbook is written specifically to help you get the most out of cooking during your travels, whether you are 4WD touring, camping, caravanning or simply holidaying; or even at home. The recipes throughout the book are easy, simple and delicious, using ingredients that are readily available wherever you may be travelling and have been carefully selected and adapted to suit cooking in a wide range of circumstances. Discover how simple it is to use a camp oven to make great bread, fluffy scones, succulent roasts and more. Learn the skills needed to cook well over an open fire, or simply enjoy the recipes that can be cooked on top of your gas stove, on the BBQ or in your caravan’s kitchen. This book will enable you to cook confidently and successfully as well as expand your cooking skills and help you serve up simple yet interesting and satisfying meals to your family, while on your travels, or at home. Viv & Ron’s knowledge of all things to do with touring Australia, including cooking in the great outdoors, is vast and extensive. Together they have also written 18 guidebooks, produced a variety of videos and write for a wide range of magazines. Now with Viv's two cookbooks combined into one - Viv Moon's OUTDOOR & TRAVELLERS' Cookbook, you have at your fingertips 516 recipes in one outstanding cookbook which is a culmination of many years of outdoor cooking experience and expertise, now passed onto you. It's an ideal travelling companion to have at your fingertips.

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BookPOD

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1922270563

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9781922270566

The Christmas Owl

By: Viv Drewa

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The Christmas Owl

By: Viv Drewa

Visit World War II Germany, but this won’t be a pleasant holiday when two brave soldiers face dire circumstances against heavy odds – can a mystical owl lead them to safety before it’s too late?

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