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In this paper we describe the process of updating a course syllabus designed to foster the development of language teacher autonomy for course planning and materials preparation. Three main factors were taken into accoun...

This paper discusses the historical development of the concept of teacher autonomy in foreign language education and its relationship to the idea of learner autonomy. Three major phases in the development of conceptions ...

Subjects / keywords: SCHMITTER, PHILIPPE C; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS; 382.91728 S377a

Subjects / keywords: Ciencias Políticas; Seguridad (Nacional e Internacional)

This article presents an innovative model for the enhancement of learner autonomy and shows some of its results and challenges. The model entails investigation of problematic areas of individual students' foreign languag...

This paper focuses on the pertinence of Action Research as a practical tool in the enhancement of language teachers' autonomy. We report on the results achieved after a year of collaborative action research undertaken by...

This paper addresses issues related to autonomy in the context of online distance learning in order to examine possible connections between autonomy and distance learning, examine different concepts of autonomy, and map ...

This paper presents a case study to illustrate how activity theory (Leontiev 1978; Engeström 1987, 1999) and the expansive learning framework (Engeström 1987, 1999) were used to evaluate the development of teacher auto...

Concepts on autonomy in language learning usually converge to the responsibility over one's own learning. This paper aims to emphasize that learner autonomy is also a matter of getting involved with the social environmen...

Drawing on Complexity Theory and on the literature of autonomy, the discussions herein presented will center around the language learner process of autonomy as a complex system. As empirical evidence to defend our assump...

Subjects / keywords: IZENBERG, GERALD N; PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS; 150.1952 I98e

The present book has been written for teachers and students of English as a second language (L2, henceforth) and considers the three educational levels, namely, school, college and university. They will find it as a usef...

The title of this book pays homage to Vittorio Gregotti’s The Territory of Architecture, but substituting the word territory for the word landscape, because the latter is a more personal concept and is related to the p...

We are pleased to present to the entire academic community and the general public the following work, which contains recent research results of a group of teachers from the Faculty of Educational Sciences in areas such a...

The Secret Sex of Money throws the spotlight on female forms of dependence such as Money, Sex, Power and Subordination. As has always been the case, economic independence is no guarantee of a woman's autonomy. This book ...

If development as human progress takes itself seriously, it has to reveal the deceitful publicity of development as capitalist freedom. Development as capitalist freedom is currently discussed under the heading globalisa...

The liberatory effect of democratic ethics, following the introduction of the institutions of an inclusive democracy, is the necessary condition for paedeia. In turn, Paedeia is the sufficient condition for the developme...

This study pioneered the construction or adaptation of a Spanish version of the Teacher as Social Context (TASC) Questionnaire. The current study included a sample of 410 secondary education teachers in Spain. A confirma...

This study aimed to investigate the impact of work values (i.e., autonomy, competence and growth, and job security) on employee effort from a needs-supplies fit perspective. Using data from 295 employees and their 57 sup...

Não obstante o processo de globalização, o Estado Nacional, para países dotados de satisfatória condição de autonomia, continua sendo o agente decisório. Integrações regionais, como as da União Européia e do ...

Title: "Institutional Autonomy of Educational Centers: Premises, Organization, Strategies" (Translation). "The proceedings of a conference dedicated to exploring institutional autonomy as it concerns Spanish educational ...

The aim of this text was to reflect on the production of a humanization policy for the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS) and its influences on healthcare management and production practices. For this, we have develop...

This work normatively theorizes legal pluralism and analyzes the interaction of the indigenous peoples of Canada and Australia with state law. Jeremy Webber develops in this work a normative theory of legal pluralism ana...