Christina Davidson

Anna Filipi

Nikolay Veresov

This book explores the distinct approaches of conversation analysis (CA) and cultural-historical theory to investigations of childhood storytelling with children aged 15 months to nine years. The authors draw on a rich set of data that depict children’s interactions with parents, teachers and peers as they talk together after having read stories, as they recount their experiences, as they enact stories through play, and as they participate in school activities in science and in literacy tasks. The book demonstrates the matters that concern CA and cultural-historical theory and explore in what ways comparisons can work to inform research design to understand how far the boundaries of approaches can be stretched, and the challenges in attempting to do so. In this process the authors focus on adding to knowledge about children’s rich interactional competencies and development as they tell stories, and on providing research-based evidence for parent, teacher and teacher educator practices.

Comparing Research Perspectives on Children’s Storytellings

Conversation Analysis and a Cultural-Historical Approach

Patrick Morgan

21st Century Collective

Cathy Davidson

Cristiane Sommer Damasceno

Omar Daouk

Jade Davis

Barry Peddycord

Elizabeth Pitts

Jennifer Stratton

Field Notes for 21st Century Literacies: A Guide to New Theories, Methods, and Practices for Open Peer Teaching and Learning is intended to assist anyone embarking on open teaching. It offers foundational methods, examples, and explanatory theories for how to set up the practices of a class, how to determine guiding principles, how to theorize what you are doing in the classroom, how to design the class, how to include multimedia elements and approaches such as games, and how to ensure that you have designed a class for inclusion, not exclusion. Finally, the openness of the learning should continue even after the book is published/goes public, and the chapters in the "Invitations" section offer advice on how to extend your open practices to the world beyond the classroom. This is by no means the only way to set up peer-to-peer teaching, but it is an account of the way we have done it, with as much detail as possible to encourage others to try, in whatever way suits their community and purposes.

A Guide to New Theories, Methods, and Practices for Open Peer Teaching and Learning

Field Notes #21st Century Literacies

Enjoy your trip to Portugal with the Silver Coast Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun. The Quick Trips to Portugal Series provides key information about the best sights and experiences if you have just a few days to spend in the exciting destination of Silver Coast. So don't waste time! We give you sharp facts and opinions that are accessible to you quickly when in Silver Coast. Like the best and most famous sightseeing attractions & fun activities (including Coimbra University & Joanina Library, Museu de Machado de Castro, Coimbra Old Cathedral, Monastery of Santa Cruz, Portugal dos Pequenitos, Figueira da Foz, Shrine of our Lady of Fatima, Convent of Christ, Tomar, Batalha Monastery, Alcobaca Monastery, Nazaré, Óbidos), where to experience the local culture, great local restaurant choices and accommodation for the budget-minded. Where to shop until you drop, party the night away and then relax and recover! Also included is information about the typical weather conditions in Silver Coast, Entry Requirements, Health Insurance, Travelling with Pets, Airports & Airlines in Portugal, Currency, Banking & ATMs, Credit Cards, Reclaiming VAT, Tipping Policy, Mobile Phones, Dialling Code, Emergency numbers, Public Holidays in Portugal, Time Zone, Daylight Savings Time, School Holidays, Trading Hours, Driving Laws, Smoking Laws, Drinking Laws, Electricity, Tourist Information (TI), Food & Drink Trends, and a list of useful travel websites. The Silver Coast Travel Guide: Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping & Fun - don't visit Portugal without it! Available in print and in ebook formats.

Sights, Culture, Food, Shopping and Fun

Silver Coast Travel Guide (Quick Trips Series)

Marilyn Fleer

Susan J. Danby

Maria Hatzigianni

This book highlights the multiple ways that digital technologies are being used in everyday contexts at home and school, in communities, and across diverse activities, from play to web searching, to talking to family members who are far away. The book helps readers understand the diverse practices employed as children make connections with digital technologies in their everyday experiences. In addition, the book employs a framework that helps readers easily access major themes at a glance, and also showcases the diversity of ideas and theorisations that underpin the respective chapters. In this way, each chapter stands alone in making a specific contribution and, at the same time, makes explicit its connections to the broader themes of digital technologies in children’s everyday lives. The concept of digital childhood presented here goes beyond a sociological reading of the everyday lives of children and their families, and reflects the various contexts in which children engage, such as preschools and childcare centres.

Technologies and Children’s Everyday Lives

Digital Childhoods

Eva Cassidy

A songbook that collects some of Eva Cassidy's famous and best-loved arrangements for guitar and voice. It contains tablture, standard notation, chords and lyrics.

The Eva Cassidy Songbook for Guitar

Christina Davidson

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