1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778906403321

Autore

Nagatomo Diane Hawley

Titolo

Exploring Japanese University English Teachers' Professional Identity / / Diane Hawley Nagatomo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-280-12092-4

9786613524782

1-84769-648-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

New Perspectives on Language and Education

Disciplina

428.0071/152

Soggetti

English language -- Study and teaching -- Japan

English language -- Study and teaching -- Japanese speakers

English teachers -- In-service training -- Japan

English teachers -- Japan

English teachers -- Training of -- Japan

English language - Study and teaching - Japan

English language - Study and teaching - Japanese speakers - Japan

English teachers - In-service training - Japan

English teachers - Training of - Japan

English teachers

English

Languages & Literatures

English Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Japanese Context -- 3. Knowledge, Beliefs and Identity -- 4. The Participants and the Data Collection -- 5. Developing Professional Identity -- 6. It’s a Man’s World -- 7. Teaching is What I ‘Do’, Not Who I Am -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index



Sommario/riassunto

This book contributes to the growing field of EFL teacher identity, which is now recognized to influence numerous aspects of classroom teaching and of student learning. It focuses on an under-researched, and yet highly influential group of teachers that shape English language education in Japan: Japanese university English teachers. In three interrelated narrative studies, it examines how four relatively new teachers develop professional identity as they become members of the community of practice of university English teachers; how gender impacts the professional identity of seven female professors ranging in age from their early 30s to their 60s; and how one teacher’s teaching practices and beliefs reflect her personal and professional identity.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784644603321

Autore

Cameron David W

Titolo

Bones, stones, and molecules [[electronic resource] ] : "out of Africa" and human origins / / David W. Cameron and Colin P. Groves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, MA, : Elsevier Academic Press, c2004

ISBN

1-281-05328-7

9786611053284

0-08-048841-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (415 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GrovesColin P

Disciplina

569.9 22

599.938

Soggetti

Paleoanthropology

Human evolution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-394) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Evolution of the Miocene great apes -- Later Miocene and Pliocene hominids -- Our kind of hominins -- A systematic scheme for the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene hominids -- The first African exodus : the emergence of early homo in Europe and Asia -- Human evolution in the Middle Pleistocene -- "The grisly folk" : the emergence of the Neanderthals -- The second African exodus : the



emergence of modern humans -- The emergence of modern humans in Asia and in Australia -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

Bones, Stones and Molecules provides some of the best evidence for resolving the debate between the two hypotheses of human origins.  The debate between the 'Out of Africa' model and the 'Multiregional' hypothesis is examined through the functional and developmental processes associated with the evolution of the human skull and face and focuses on the significance of the Australian record.  The book analyzes important new discoveries that have occurred recently and examines evidence that is not available elsewhere.  Cameron and Groves argue that the existing evidence supports a recent origin f