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Understanding the Professional Agency of Female Language Teachers in a Chinese University

Rhetoric and Reality

By: Xiaolei Ruan

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Understanding the Professional Agency of Female Language Teachers in a Chinese University

Rhetoric and Reality

By: Xiaolei Ruan

Centering on a qualitative study of three female English teachers in Shanghai, China, the book explores female language teachers' perceived discrepancies and agency exercised in their teaching, research and teacher learning practices. By adopting multiple research methods, such as narrative questionnaire, metaphor, timeline, interview and classroom observation, this study reveals that female language teachers’ agency is a dynamic entity manifested in the ongoing negotiation of agency belief, agency practice, and agency inclination, as well as the interaction of individual and the environment. Though there are certain limitations concerning representativeness and generalizability, the author provides a thick description of how female language teachers in China are exercising agency to fulfill their career development, which offers insightful suggestions to language education in both China and broader areas globally. The book will appeal to researchers studying teacher education and foreign (English) language teaching, university teachers, especially female foreign language teachers, PhD students and graduate students, as well as career women.

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Routledge

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1000523675

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9781000523676

Introduction to Heterostructured Materials

By: Yuntian Zhu,Xiaolei Wu

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Introduction to Heterostructured Materials

By: Yuntian Zhu,Xiaolei Wu

Introduction to Heterostructured Materials provides updates on the historical perspective of the development of these materials, which is followed by a review of the basic background on mechanical behaviors and properties of metals and alloys. Next, both the definition and the fundamental principles and deformation behavior of heterostructured materials are covered, as well as their processing and properties and various design principles. The book supports graduate students and researchers entering this field, senior scientists who are already working in this field, engineers in the manufacturing industry, and professors who are teaching advanced materials and technologies. Heterostructured materials not only possess superior mechanical and/or physical properties that are not accessible to their conventional homogeneous counterparts, but they are also conducive to large-scale industrial production at low cost. - Written in a systematic and easy to read style - Discusses the mechanical behaviors of coarse-grained metals and nanostructured metals - Focuses on the uniqueness of microstructures, behaviors and their fundamental scientific issues - Includes the design and potential applications for various heterostructured materials

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Elsevier

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0323993273

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9780323993272

Understanding the Professional Agency of Female Language Teachers in a Chinese University

Rhetoric and Reality

By: Xiaolei Ruan

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Understanding the Professional Agency of Female Language Teachers in a Chinese University

Rhetoric and Reality

By: Xiaolei Ruan

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Understanding the Professional Agency of Female Language Teachers in a Chinese University

Understanding the Professional Agency of Female Language Teachers in a Chinese University

Introduction to Heterostructured Materials

Introduction to Heterostructured Materials

Understanding the Professional Agency of Female Language Teachers in a Chinese University

Understanding the Professional Agency of Female Language Teachers in a Chinese University

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