Internationally leading experts from four continents provide new views and pathways to teacher education and training. How can teachers be effectively and efficiently trained to master the complexity and the process conditions of teaching-learning situations? The chapters as a whole demonstrate that subtle knowledge of the conditions and variables of instructional processes is necessary. They provide new insight into the classroom.
The chapters as a whole demonstrate that subtle knowledge of the conditions and variables of instructional processes is necessary. They provide new insight into the classroom.
Studies in Middle Eastern Society, Economy and Law in Honor of A.L. Udovitch
Dedicated to their teacher, Abraham L. Udovitch, his students offer in this volume a chronologically, geographically and thematically wide range of papers united by an emphasis on a close reading of primary sources and the juxtaposition of different genres of narratives.
Dedicated to their teacher, Abraham L. Udovitch, his students offer in this volume a chronologically, geographically and thematically wide range of papers united by an emphasis on a close reading of primary sources and the juxtaposition of ...
This volume explores a number of key dimensions of EFL teacher education. The sixteen chapters discuss a wide variety of issues related to second language pedagogy and SLTE (Second Language Teacher Education). It will be of interest to teachers-in-training, teachers, teacher educators and to those educational researchers interested in how L2 teaching is actually learned in professional preparation programmes.
This volume explores a number of key dimensions of EFL teacher education. The sixteen chapters discuss a wide variety of issues related to second language pedagogy and SLTE.
Using autobiographical accounts acquired from her extensive career in education, the author has explored the multi-faceted influences on teacher career motivation and professional development in special and inclusive education in China. The social realities faced by teachers in their professional lives in a city in China have been highlighted through comparison and contrast with those of their international peers. This is achieved through a comprehensive review of recent literature and an empirical study to encourage teacher voices with this regard.
In particular, since the mid 1990s, teacher professional development in special and inclusive education has been influenced by the government's priorities. The challenges of inclusive education imply that there is an urgent need to ...
In Studies in Legal Hadith Hiroyuki Yanagihashi seeks to clarify the processes by which hadiths on a given legal topic were formed and developed and to propose a methodology to estimate their acceptability for traditionists.
Gil, Moshe, “The Constitution of Medina: A Reconsideration,” Israel Oriental Studies 4 (1974), 44-65. The Glorious Koran, with English translation, introduction, and notes by Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, London: George Allen & Unwin, ...
Since its inception, the study of ad th conducted by scholars trained in the Western academic tradition has been marked by sharp methodological debates. A focal issue is the origin and development of traditions on the advent of Islam. Scholars' verdicts on these traditions have ranged from late fabrications without any historical value for the time concerning which the narrations purport to give information to early, accurately transmitted texts that allow one to reconstruct Islamic origins . Starting from previous contributions to the debate, the studies collected in this volume show that, by careful analysis of their texts and chains of transmission, the history of Muslim traditions can be reconstructed with a high degree of probability and their historicity assessed afresh.
Starting from previous contributions to the debate, the studies collected in this volume show that, by careful analysis of their texts and chains of transmission, the history of Muslim traditions can be reconstructed with a high degree of ...
This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of Sh?fi 's "Ris?la" and shows how Sh?fi sought to formulate an all-embracing hermeneutic that portrays the law as a tightly interlocking structure organized around defined interactions of the Qur n and the Sunna.
The relationship between JÊiØ's discussion of the bayÊn and that of ShÊÀ{Ò remains puzzling, however, since ShÊÀ{Ò focuses on revealed texts, and JÊiØ on communication. JÊiØ reports the opinion of a certain litterateur (ba{Ó jahÊbidhat ...
Higher Education Policy in the Philippines and ASEAN Integration: Demands and Challenges examines and analyses the status of education policy in the Philippines and, more particularly, focuses on the issue of the integration of higher education in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
This struggle is related in some way to an operational notion of quality, which in turn requires a clear ... 1960 to 1980 quality assurance/total quality control (the quality department); 1980 to 1990, Total Quality Management (TQM), ...
Challenges and Opportunities in Internal and External Quality Assurance
The Global Trends in Higher Education Quality Assurance: Challenges and Opportunities in Internal and External Quality Assurance provides a comprehensive coverage of the trends and developments in higher education quality assurance as they refer to legitimacy/trust, efficiency and relevance.
Large scale institutional quality management (IQM) – institutionally governed quality assurance – was first introduced in US higher education in the mid1980s in the version known as 'Total Quality Management' (TQM) (Birnbaum, 2000; ...
The Yearbook brings together a collection of studies that discuss legal problems raised by cultural differences between people and the law to which they are subject.
The Yearbook brings together a collection of studies that discuss legal problems raised by cultural differences between people and the law to which they are subject.
