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Using Shakespeare's Plays to Explore Education Policy Today: Neoliberalism through the lens of Renaissance humanism (2016)
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Ward, S. (2016). Using Shakespeare's Plays to Explore Education Policy Today: Neoliberalism through the lens of Renaissance humanism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315696850

Shakespeare is revered as the greatest writer in the English language, yet education reform in the English-speaking world is informed primarily by the ‘market order’, rather than the kind of humanism we might associate with Shakespeare. By considerin... Read More about Using Shakespeare's Plays to Explore Education Policy Today: Neoliberalism through the lens of Renaissance humanism.

The most effective approaches to teaching in primary schools: Rigorous evidence on effective teaching (2016)
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Gorard, S., See, B., & Morris, R. (2016). The most effective approaches to teaching in primary schools: Rigorous evidence on effective teaching. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing

This is a wide-ranging review of the evidence on effective teaching approaches for primary age children. It evaluates the evidence carefully, leading to summaries of what is known to work, what is not known to work, and what is known to be harmful. T... Read More about The most effective approaches to teaching in primary schools: Rigorous evidence on effective teaching.

New Perspectives on Intercultural Language Research and Teaching: Exploring Learners’ Understandings of Texts from Other Cultures (2016)
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Porto, M., & Byram, M. (2017). New Perspectives on Intercultural Language Research and Teaching: Exploring Learners’ Understandings of Texts from Other Cultures. Routledge

Illustrated by an empirical study of English as a Foreign Language reading in Argentina, this book argues for a different approach to the theoretical rationales and methodological designs typically used to investigate cultural understanding in readin... Read More about New Perspectives on Intercultural Language Research and Teaching: Exploring Learners’ Understandings of Texts from Other Cultures.

In Two Minds: The interaction of moods, emotions and purposeful thought in formal education (2016)
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Newton, D. (2016). In Two Minds: The interaction of moods, emotions and purposeful thought in formal education. International Centre for Innovation in Education

An aim of this account is to show that, in teaching and learning, the intellectual system is not everything. Through some kinds of purposeful thought, commonly seen as worthy of development in the classroom and familiar to teachers, the account offer... Read More about In Two Minds: The interaction of moods, emotions and purposeful thought in formal education.

The cultural and intercultural dimensions of English as a lingua franca (2016)
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Holmes, P., & Dervin, F. (Eds.). (2016). The cultural and intercultural dimensions of English as a lingua franca. Multilingual Matters

This book investigates the cultural and intercultural aspects of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). The chapters consider the communication and pedagogical implications of these dimensions and offer suggestions for new directions in ELF research, peda... Read More about The cultural and intercultural dimensions of English as a lingua franca.