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Nordic Childhoods in the Digital Age: Insights into Contemporary Research on Communication, Learning and Education (Perspectives on Education in the Digital Age)
by Ola Erstad Kirsten Drotner Åsa Mäkitalo Kristiina Kumpulainen Anu Kajamaa Sólveig JakobsdóttirThis book adds to the international research literature on contemporary Nordic childhoods in the context of fast evolving technologies. Bringing together researchers from Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland, it addresses pressing issues around children’s communication, learning and education in the digital age. The volume sheds light on cultural values, educational policies and conceptions of children and childhood, and child-media relationships inherent in Nordic societies. Chapters investigate both formal education and everyday informal spaces as research sites. The book argues for the importance of understanding local cultures, values and communication practices that make up contemporary digital childhoods and extends current discourses on children’s screen time to bring in new insights about the nature of children’s digital engagement. This book will appeal to researchers, scholars, post graduate students and policy makers in the fields of childhood education, educational technology and communication. It will also be of interest to those studying and teaching in communication studies, learning and educational sciences at a higher level.
The Future of Religious Studies in India
by Clemens Cavallin Åke Sander Sudha SitharamanThis book looks at how religious studies is framed and taught in India. It addresses the contradiction between the country’s vibrant religious life and the dearth of comparative and social scientific religious studies programs across Indian universities. The volume: • Studies the efforts by Rabindranath Tagore in Santiniketan and Mohan Malaviya in Varanasi, to introduce and institutionalize religious studies in India; • Discusses the notions of religion and spirituality and situates the failure of the ‘secularization thesis’ in the context of modern India; • Provides concrete suggestions on how to develop religious studies in relation to global citizenship and Indian cultural heritage with the hope of initiating a larger discussion. A unique contribution to the study of religion in society and education, the book will be indispensable to students and researchers of theology, history, philosophy, sociology, secularization, globalization, religious studies, education studies, and South Asian studies.
Engaging with Work in English Studies: An Issue-based Approach
by Alastair Henry Åke PerssonThis edited book focuses on practices of work in late modern society, taking an ‘issue-based’ and interdisciplinary approach to English Studies which acknowledges the impact of globalization on the position of English in the daily existence of millions of people around the world. Envisioning English as “a diverse yet unified subject” where the study of literature, language, and education can be pursued thematically, it constitutes part of an ongoing transformation and revitalization of English Studies. It will be of interest to readers with backgrounds in linguistics, literature and education, as well as fields normally seen as lying ‘beyond’ English Studies such as psychology, sociology, philosophy, urban studies, political science and childhood studies.
Planning and Analyzing Teaching: Using the Variation Theory of Learning (WALS-Routledge Lesson Study Series)
by Ference Marton Angelika Kullberg Åke IngermanUsing illustrative teaching case studies, this book demonstrates how teaching informed by a learning theory, specifically Variation theory, can equip teachers to facilitate possibilities for students’ learning in effective and powerful ways.For a long period of time teaching has been “black-boxed”, in favour of other explanations of why students learn or not, such as motivation and social interaction. A large amount of research on teaching and learning, not the least made using Variation theory, has shown that students often need to experience the same aspects of the focused content or capability in order to learn, indicating that relationships between teaching and learning are not unique or even qualitatively different for every individual and every situation. This perspective on the relationship between teaching and learning emphasizes content-specific aspects and in that sense structural components of teaching, while other aspects of schooling such as social interaction and general well-being recede into the background. The authors argue for the importance of this in the direct development of teachers' independent collective professional knowledge about teaching, and the leverage this gives for developing student learning. They introduce theoretical tools to help teachers to increase the probability that teaching focusing a specific content or capability is predictive of students learning of that specific content or capability, while decreasing contextual dependency without assuming that teaching and learning have a one-to-one relationship.Intended for teachers, graduate students in education, teacher educators, student teachers, and researchers, this book shows that while there is no simple equation between teaching and learning, there are general, though content specific, aspects of teaching that can be systematically planned and analyzed and used to improve the quality of student learning.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Practicable Learning Analytics (Advances in Analytics for Learning and Teaching)
by Olga Viberg Åke GrönlundThis book is about practicable learning analytics, that is able to become a successful part of practice, ultimately leading to improved learning and teaching. The aim of the book is to shift our perspective on learning analytics creation and implementation from that of “designing of” technology to that of “designing for” a system of practice. That is, any successful implementation of learning analytics requires a systematic approach, which the book explains through the lens of the Information Systems Artefact, constituting of the three interdependent artefacts: “technical”, “information” and “social”.The contributions of this book go beyond a consideration of particular humans such as teachers and students, and their individual activities to consider the larger systems of activity of which analytics become part of. The chapters included in this book present different cases of learning analytics implementation across countries, and the related opportunities and challenges related to generalizability of the results.The book is written for designers, students and educators of learning analytics who aim to improve learning and teaching through learning analytics.
Drama in Education: Exploring Key Research Concepts and Effective Strategies
by Ása Helga Ragnarsdóttir Hákon Sæberg BjörnssonAs schools have become more aware of their role in addressing personal and social issues, the importance of ‘values and attitudes’ have begun shaping education and curricula worldwide. Drama in Education explores the six fundamental pillars of the national curriculum guide of Iceland in relation to these changing values and attitudes. Focusing on the importance of human relations, this book explores literacy, sustainability, health and welfare, democracy and human rights, equality and creativity. It demonstrates the capability of drama as a teaching strategy for effectively working towards these fundamental pillars and reflects on how drama in education can be used to empower children to become healthy, creative individuals and active members in a democratic society. Offering research-based examples of using drama successfully in different educational contexts and considering practical challenges within the classroom, Drama in Education: Exploring Key Research Concepts and Effective Strategies is an essential guide for any modern drama teacher.
Mehrsprachigkeit im sprachbildenden Mathematikunterricht: Gelingensbedingungen und didaktische Potenziale in sprachlich heterogenen Klassen (Dortmunder Beiträge zur Entwicklung und Erforschung des Mathematikunterrichts #53)
by Ángela UribeIn einem verstehensorientierten sprachbildenden Mathematikunterricht wird Sprache als Denkwerkzeug und somit als Schlüssel zum konzeptuellen Verständnis verstanden. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich die Frage nach der Rolle anderer Sprachen neben der Unterrichtssprache im Lehr-Lern-Prozess. Insbesondere in einer mehrsprachigen Gesellschaft – wie Deutschland – treffen im Unterricht diverse Sprachen aufeinander und die Lernenden bringen eine Vielzahl von Ressourcen als Teil ihrer sprachlichen Repertoires mit, die über die Unterrichtssprache hinausgehen. Diese mehrsprachigen Repertoires der Lernenden können gerade für die Bedeutungskonstruktion beim Aufbau von konzeptuellem Verständnis eine wertvolle Ressource darstellen. Das vorliegende Buch trägt dazu bei, den Einbezug dieser vielfältigen Repertoires im Mathematikunterricht in sprachlich heterogenen Regelklassen zu konkretisieren. Es bietet dabei sowohl unmittelbare Ansatzpunkte für die Praxis als auch eine solide Grundlage für zukünftige Untersuchungen, die darauf abzielen, den Mathematikunterricht in einer zunehmend mehrsprachigen Welt weiter zu verstehen und zu verbessern. Das Buch markiert einen bedeutenden Schritt vorwärts im Einbezug von Mehrsprachigkeit als Ressource im Mathematikunterricht und setzt damit ein starkes Signal für eine inklusive und weltoffene Didaktik.
Heducación se escribe sin hache: La educación en España (Libros para entender la crisis #Volumen)
by Ángel SantamaríaUn repaso ameno e ilustrativo de uno de los grandes problemas de España.La educación, clave para la economía del siglo XXI, es siempre un tema de actualidad. Se habla y se opina de educación más que de otras cuestiones, y además todos tenemos nuestra propia opinión del paso por la escuela: todos lo vivimos en persona y muchos también a través de nuestros hijos e hijas. En España todos opinamos sobre la educación y eso configura una realidad que no escapa al apasionamiento. Sucesivas reformas, nunca consensuadas, prometen arreglarlo todo, para quedar al albur de los cambios políticos. En esta obra, amena y didáctica, Angel Santamaría, experto en temas educativos, desgrana las cuestiones de la educación en nuestro país en relación con las grandes tendencias internacionales, y presenta un texto imprescindible para la reflexión y la opinión informada.
Graphic Horizons: Volume 2 - Graphics for Education and Production (Springer Series in Design and Innovation #43)
by João Pedro Xavier Luis Hermida González Antonio Amado Lorenzo Ángel J. Fernández-ÁlvarezThis book reports on several advances in architectural graphics, with a special emphasis on education, training, and architectural production. It gathers a selection of contributions to the 20th International Congress of Architectural Graphic Expression, EGA 2024, held on May 27-29, 2024, in Porto, Portugal, with the motto: "Graphic Horizons". This is the second of a 3-volume set.
Innovation and Technologies for the Digital Transformation of Education: European and Latin American Perspectives (Lecture Notes in Educational Technology)
by Francisco José García-Peñalvo María Luisa Sein-Echaluce Ángel Fidalgo-BlancoThis book provides a critical overview of the current use of learning technologies for educational innovation and examines global trends in educational innovation. It also shares experiences in educational innovation with learning technologies in Europe and Latin America. Despite increasing concerns about the use of technology in education, this book discusses how these can be addressed by focusing on fundamental principles such as personalization, collaboration, engagement, accessibility, and professional development.
Trends on Active Learning Methods and Emerging Learning Technologies (Lecture Notes in Educational Technology)
by Francisco José García-Peñalvo María Luisa Sein-Echaluce Ángel Fidalgo-BlancoThis book uncovers the crucial issues in learning technologies in this digital transformation moment, specifically within the COVID-19 umbrella effects. Remote learning, educational technologies, or distance learning are usually used topics by teachers, students, and researchers because the educational context should be transformed and even reinvented itself drastically. Technologies have been used more intensively in the last year than during the last decade. However, what is the effect of these "new" technologies on the teaching and learning methodologies? Are teachers and students fully digital competent to integrate these technologies in their teaching and learning activities? In this book, the authors claim to go forward that the online teaching conception to replicate the face-to-face teaching through a camera. They propose adapting the active methodologies to the online or hybrid context, which is a challenge that must be corroborated with rigorous educational research.
Crossing Digital Fronteras: Rehumanizing Latinx Education and Digital Humanities
by Isabel Martinez Irma Victoria Montelongo Nicholas Daniel Natividad Ángel David NievesCrossing Digital Fronteras is about liberatory possibilities and digital technologies in the classroom. The book centers critical Latinx Digital Humanities to illustrate the ways college faculty and Latinx students harness digital tools to engage in "messy" yet essential active learning and knowledge production in Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and Latinx Studies courses. With increasing Latinx student enrollment and a growing need for the humanities in our complex world, it is essential that HSIs and instructors integrate twenty-first-century tools into their teaching practices to truly "serve" Latinx students and communities. This book definitively inserts Latinx Digital Humanities into broader conversations about best practices at HSIs, on the one hand, and digital humanities and social justice, on the other. Most importantly, it provides practical examples of innovative, rehumanizing digital pedagogies that give students the liberatory learning they deserve.
Explainable AI for Education: Recent Trends and Challenges (Information Systems Engineering and Management #19)
by Álvaro Rocha Soumi Dutta Sonali Vyas Tanu Singh“Explainable AI for Education: Recent Trends and Challenges” is a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and education. In this book, we delve into the critical need for transparency and interpretability in AI systems deployed within educational contexts. Key Themes Understanding AI in Education: We provide a concise overview of AI techniques commonly used in educational settings, including recommendation systems, personalized learning, and assessment tools. Readers will gain insights into the potential benefits and risks associated with AI adoption in education. The Black-Box Problem: AI models often operate as “black boxes,” making it challenging to understand their decision-making processes. We discuss the implications of this opacity and emphasize the importance of explainability. Explainable AI (XAI) Techniques: From rule-based approaches to neural network interpretability, we explore various methods for making AI models more transparent. Examples and case studies illustrate how XAI can enhance educational outcomes. Ethical Considerations: As AI becomes more integrated into education, ethical dilemmas arise. We address issues related to bias, fairness, and accountability, emphasizing responsible AI practices. Future Directions: Our book looks ahead, considering the evolving landscape of AI and its impact on education. We propose research directions and practical steps to promote XAI adoption in educational institutions.
Enhancing Resilience in Youth: Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Positive Environments
by Christoph Steinebach Álvaro I. LangerThis book shows how to plan, refine, and implement peer-supported mindfulness-based interventions to prevent mental disorders in children and youths. It focuses on interventions designed to maintain psychosocial health and prevent emotional and behavioral problems in children and youths around the globe. By combining a range of research perspectives, the book connects mindfulness to pro-social behavior, and to positive social and physical environments, in order to enhance resilience. In addition, it presents theoretical aspects and practical recommendations on how to promote mental health and healthy lifestyles in adolescents, such as school-based interventions. Gathering contributions by an international network of researchers and practitioners, the book offers not only state-of-the-art theoretical descriptions of key concepts and interventions, but also best practices for implementing them to strengthen resilience.
International Joint Conferences: 17th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (CISIS 2024) and 15th International Conference on European Transnational Education (ICEUTE 2024) (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #957)
by Héctor Quintián Emilio Corchado Francisco Javier Martínez de Pisón Hilde Pérez García Francisco Martínez Álvarez Alicia Troncoso Lora Pablo García Bringas Esteban Jove José Luis Calvo Rolle Paolo Fosci Álvaro Herrero CosíoThis volume of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems contains accepted papers presented at the 17th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (CISIS 2024) and the 15th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Education (ICEUTE 2024), which were held in the beautiful city of Salamanca, Spain, in October 2024. The aim of the CISIS 2024 conference is to offer a meeting opportunity for academic and industry-related researchers belonging to the various vast communities of Computational Intelligence, Information Security, and Data Mining. The need for intelligent, flexible behavior by large, complex systems, especially in mission-critical domains, is intended to be the catalyst and the aggregation stimulus for the overall event. After peer review, the CISIS 2024 International Program Committee selected 24 papers for publication in these conference proceedings. In this edition, one special session was organized: Artificial Intelligence for Protecting the Internet of Things. The aim of ICEUTE 2024 conference is to offer a stimulating and fruitful meeting point for people working on transnational education within Europe. It provides an exciting forum for presenting and discussing the latest works and advances in transnational education within European countries. In the case of ICEUTE 2024, the International Program Committee selected nine papers, which are also published in these conference proceedings. The selection of papers was extremely rigorous to maintain the high quality of the conferences. We deeply appreciate the hard work and dedication of the members of the Program Committees during the reviewing process. Their contributions are integral to the creation of a high-standard conference; the CISIS and ICEUTE conferences would not exist without their help.
International Joint Conference 15th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #532)
by Álvaro Herrero Héctor Quintián Emilio Corchado Francisco Javier Martínez de Pisón Hilde Pérez García Enrique A. de la Cal Francisco Martínez Álvarez Alicia Troncoso Lora Pablo García Bringas José Ramón Villar Flecha Giuseppe PsailaThis book of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems contains accepted papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (CISIS 2022) and the 13th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Education (ICEUTE 2022). These conferences were held in the beautiful city of Salamanca, Spain, in September 2022. The aim of the CISIS 2022 conference is to offer a meeting opportunity for academic and industry-related researchers belonging to the various, vast communities of computational intelligence, information security, and data mining. The need for intelligent, flexible behaviour by large, complex systems, especially in mission-critical domains, is intended to be the catalyst and the aggregation stimulus for the overall event. After a thorough peer review process, the CISIS 2022 International Program Committee selected 20 papers, which are published in this conference proceedings. In this edition, three special sessions were organized: Cybersecurity in Future Connected Societies, Cybersecurity and Trusted Supply Chains of ICT, and Intelligent Solutions for Cybersecurity Systems. The aim of ICEUTE 2022 is to offer a meeting point for people working on transnational education within Europe. It provides a stimulating and fruitful forum for presenting and discussing the latest works and advances on transnational education within European countries. In the case of ICEUTE 2022, the International Program Committee selected 5 papers, which are also published in this conference proceedings. The selection of papers was extremely rigorous to maintain the high quality of the conferences. We want to thank the members of the Program Committees for their hard work during the reviewing process. This is a crucial process for creating a high-standard conference; the CISIS and ICEUTE would not exist without their help.
International Joint Conference 16th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #748)
by Álvaro Herrero Héctor Quintián Emilio Corchado Francisco Javier Martínez de Pisón Hilde Pérez García Francisco Martínez Álvarez Alicia Troncoso Lora Pablo García Bringas José Luis Calvo RolleThis book of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems contains accepted papers presented at the 16th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems (CISIS 2023) and the 14th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Education (ICEUTE 2023). These conferences were held in the beautiful city of Salamanca, Spain, in September 2023.The aim of the CISIS 2023 conference is to offer a meeting opportunity for academic and industry-related researchers belonging to the various, vast communities of computational intelligence, information security, and data mining. The need for intelligent, flexible behavior by large, complex systems, especially in mission-critical domains, is intended to be the catalyst and the aggregation stimulus for the overall event. The aim of ICEUTE 2023 conference is to offer a meeting point for people working on transnational education within Europe. It provides a stimulating and fruitful forum for presenting and discussing the latest works and advances on transnational education within European countries.
The 11th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Educational (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing #1266)
by Álvaro Herrero Javier Sedano Héctor Quintián Emilio Corchado Daniel Urda Carlos CambraThis book contains accepted papers presented at ICEUTE 2020 held in the beautiful and historic city of Burgos (Spain), in September 2020.The 11th International Conference on EUropean Transnational Education (ICEUTE 2020) has been a meeting point for people working on transnational education within Europe. It has provided a stimulating and fruitful forum for presenting and discussing the latest works and advances on transnational education within European countries.After a thorough peer-review process, the ICEUTE 2020 International Program Committee selected 44 papers which are published in these conference proceedings achieving an acceptance rate of 41%. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the ICEUTE 2020 edition was blended, combining on-site and on-line participation. In this relevant edition, a special emphasis was put on the organization of five special sessions related to relevant topics as Role of English in Transnational Education and Teacher Training, Personalization and ICT: a Path to Educational Inclusion, Innovation and Research Findings in Engineering Higher Education, Practical Implementations of Novel Initiatives, and Innovation in Computer Science Higher Education.The selection of papers was extremely rigorous in order to maintain the high quality of the conference, and we would like to thank the members of the Program Committees for their hard work in the reviewing process. This is a crucial process to the creation of a high standard conference, and the ICEUTE conference would not exist without their help.
El método Porte: Imagen física en 5 sencillos pasos
by Álvaro Gordoa¡ESTE NO ES UN LIBRO DE MODA! Es un libro sobre la decisión más importante que tomas todos los días frente al espejo… la decisión de responder a la pregunta: ¿Qué me pongo? Y cómo de esta decisión dependerá que se te abran las puertas de todo lo que deseas. En este libro encontrarás un camino sencillo para tomarla con certeza: recomendaciones muy poderosas para relacionarte con tu ropa y así comunicarte a través de tus prendas, mientras gozas de los beneficios de sacarle provecho a lo que la naturaleza te dio. Con tips que podrás implementar de inmediato y útiles recomendaciones que le darán a tu guardarropa un enfoque psicológico y estético, El método P.O.R.T.E. te permitirá capacitarte directamente con el rector del Colegio de Imagen Pública®, la institución académica que más consultores en imagen pública y asesores en imagen física egresa a nivel mundial. Con este libro aprenderás a: - Moldear tu mente y la de los demás seleccionando las prendas adecuadas. - Organizar tu guardarropa y ser tu propio personal shopper. - Portar lo que más te conviene por tu tipo de cara, cuerpo y color. - Jugar con trucos ópticos para lograr el cuerpo ideal. - Explotar y desarrollar tu propio estilo. Y muchos más temas que te ayudarán a conseguir lo que deseas teniendo en tu clóset las prendas que necesitas. Empieza a leer y disfruta con cada página del poder de la imagen física, con el que dejarás de preguntarte “¿cómo me veo?” para empezar a responderte “¡qué mensajes estoy enviando!”. ¡Deja de vestirte para la ocasión y empieza a vestirte para la impresión!
Creative Readings of Multilingual Picturebooks: International and Transdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge Research in Literacy Education)
by Áine McGillicuddy Esa Christine HartmannThis edited volume offers fresh perspectives on linguistic and cultural diversity in multilingual picturebooks, examining their potential to support multilingual learning in different educational contexts. Drawing on international, transdisciplinary perspectives from over fifteen countries, the book provides a comprehensive view of this unique literary genre.The collection showcases a wide range of languages featured in multilingual picturebooks, including Chinese, Farsi, Georgian, Irish, Korean, Malagasy, Mexican Indigenous languages, Mirandese, Northern Sámi, Portuguese, Spanish, Te Reo Māori, Ukrainian, and Welsh. Various chapters examine how multilingual picturebooks foster language and literacy development for emergent bilinguals in multilingual and multicultural environments, highlighting benefits such as linguistic and semiotic code-switching, as well as their ability to stimulate intercultural awareness in readers. The book also considers the creation, translation, and complex publishing processes of multilingual picturebooks, while exploring modern technologies such as eye tracking to analyse the reading processes of these books.Reflecting current insights and innovations in picturebook research, this volume will appeal to scholars, academics, and researchers in language and literacy education, multilingual education, and early childhood education. Those involved in children’s literature studies, multimodality, and bilingualism more broadly will also find this collection valuable.
The Promise of the University: Reclaiming Humanity, Humility, and Hope (Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives #10)
by Áine MahonThis book offers philosophical readings of the contemporary university and is motivated by a series of pressing challenges in the global context of Higher Education. It argues that the university is a place for community, for refuge, for enlightenment and the careful questioning of knowledge, but it is also a place for visceral ambition and for intellectual cowardice, for blinkered individualism and professional competitiveness. In the context of a highly competitive post-crash global economy, contemporary students are placed under increasing pressure to distinguish themselves from their peers via a portfolio of learning excellence and extracurricular achievement. Growing numbers undertake part or full-time employment in order to cover registration fees and the basic costs of living. University staff take on very different forms of pressure that operate across the life-course of an academic career – from early-career anxieties to the worries of more privileged and permanent faculty who fear they do not meet ever-changing structures, assumptions and demands of the university itself. This book argues that these interlinked agendas demand consideration from philosophers of education in Ireland, Europe and further afield. It proposes that we must embody a very careful balancing act: one where we remember the romantic ideals and promises of the university while still acknowledging the very real and pressing challenges faced by our staff and students. The book will be of interest to academics, graduate students, and advanced-level undergraduates in Philosophy, Education, Mental Health, and Organizational Psychology in both North America and Europe.
Educational Leadership in Policy: Challenges And Implementation Within Europe
by Nikša Alfirević Jurica Pavičić Ágúst Hjörtur Ingþórsson Dijana VicanThis book analyzes the challenges of developing and implementing effective policies for educational leadership in South-East Europe (SEE) and the Nordic-Baltic region. While individual countries from the Nordic-Baltic region are praised for their educational achievements, the SEE region could be considered as a (post)transitional landscape: these two educational contexts present their own unique challenges, notably international benchmarking and the ‘Europeization’ of educational policy. Seamlessly integrating theoretical framework with the goals and experiences of actors and practitioners, the editors and contributors build an accessible overview of existing policy research and its conflicting theoretical perspectives. Often disregarded by the mainstream literature, the countries and regions chosen provide a snapshot into the challenges of developing policies for educational leadership. This thoughtful yet practical volume will be of interest and value not only to students and scholars of educational leadership in these regions, but to practitioners and policy makers more widely.
Investigating the Role of Affective Factors in Second Language Learning Tasks (Second Language Learning and Teaching)
by Ágnes AlbertThis book provides an overview of affective individual variables that are considered relevant for second language learning and outlines a novel approach to researching them. In the first part of the book, the most prominent concepts and theories in connection with affective individual variables and tasks are discussed, followed by a literature review of the most significant empirical studies conducted on the reviewed individual variables with the help of tasks. The second part of the monograph reports the findings of a research project which investigated the relationships of motivation, emotions, flow experiences, and self-efficacy beliefs of secondary school students studying English in Hungary. These constructs are examined at two levels: in connection with learners’ English classes in general and in connection with a particular language task, thus linking task performance measures to specific affective states experienced while performing a task and their general trait versions reported in connection with the language classes. Teacher interviews provide further insights into the language tasks used by the teachers of the students taking part in the study and their affective correlates. The book offers multi-level interpretations of the results, puts forward pedagogical implications, and delineates further research directions.
Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences
by Gemma Bel-Enguix Àngels Massip-Bonet Albert Bastardas-BoadaThis book offers insights on the study of natural language as a complex adaptive system. It discusses a new way to tackle the problem of language modeling, and provides clues on how the close relation between natural language and some biological structures can be very fruitful for science. The book examines the theoretical framework and then applies its main principles to various areas of linguistics. It discusses applications in language contact, language change, diachronic linguistics, and the potential enhancement of classical approaches to historical linguistics by means of new methodologies used in physics, biology, and agent systems theory. It shows how studying language evolution and change using computational simulations enables to integrate social structures in the evolution of language, and how this can give rise to a new way to approach sociolinguistics. Finally, it explores applications for discourse analysis, semantics and cognition.
Supporting Toddlers’ Wellbeing in Early Years Settings: Strategies and Tools for Practitioners and Teachers
by Helen Sutherland Yasmin Mukadam Anne Rawlings Yngve Rosell Monika Röthle Cristina Corcoll Carme Flores Àngels GeisOffering an in-depth exploration of the distinctive features of the play development and learning of toddlers, this book provides useful materials, strategies and tools that can be used by practitioners supporting toddlers at this significant age. The book explores the context and concepts of wellbeing and is ideal for early years practitioners, teachers and students working with toddlers. It sets out practical guidance on the following key factors: home, family, health, development and learning, voice and expressions, early language, meal times and early years settings. These factors are supported with case studies and examples of good practice from Norway, Spain and the UK and expanded upon with reflective thinking exercises and suggested strategies to implement.