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Reflective Practice for Early Career Language Teachers
  • Thomas S. C. Farrell
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    November 2024
    Print publication:
    30 November 2024
  • Based on a range of detailed case studies, this innovative book presents a model for early career language teacher development. It showcases the lived experiences of English language teachers in their training years, as well as the reflections of two more experienced English language teachers, and uses these case studies to provide practical guidelines on early career needs and development. It outlines four essential and highly connected conditions that will enable teachers to survive and thrive in the profession: reflection, support, resilience, and well-being. Using an innovative, evidence-based, data-informed approach to reflective practice, the book covers teachers' philosophy, principles, theory, practice, and critical reflection beyond practice. Each chapter contains practical reflection activities, to encourage reflection throughout from the reader on what the research reveals. It is essential reading for graduate students who are training to become language teachers, as well as language teacher trainers and lecturers.
Reflective Practice in Language Teaching

Reflective Practice in Language Teaching
  • Thomas S. C. Farrell
  • Published online:
    22 April 2022
    Print publication:
    19 May 2022
  • This Element examines the concept of reflective practice in language teaching. It includes a brief description of what reflective practice is and how it is operationalized by two of its main protagonists, John Dewey and Donald Schön, as well as some of the limitations of their conceptions. This is used as an introduction to how the author further developed their conceptions when operationalizing reflective practice for language teachers through a five-stage framework for reflecting on practice for language teachers. The author then presents an in-depth case study of the reflections of an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher working in Costa Rica as he moved through the five stages of the framework for reflecting on practice. The author then goes on to outline and discuss how reflective practice may be moved forward and calls attention to the importance of emotions in the process of reflection for language teachers.

  • 20 - Public Health and Local Government in Wales: Every Policy A Health Policy – A Collaborative Agenda

  • Edited by Adrian Bonner, University of Stirling
  • Book:
    Local Authorities and the Social Determinants of Health
    Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    25 March 2021
    Print publication:
    14 October 2020, pp 385-400

  • Summary

    Introduction

    This chapter focuses on public health in Wales and the context within which it is delivered. As a devolved service, health policy and the wider public policy legislative framework are the responsibility of the devolved Welsh Government tasked under the Government of Wales Act 2006 with developing and implementing policy, exercising executive functions and making subordinate legislation. Focusing on public health, part two of the chapter outlines the organisations involved and the context of the policy in Wales. It also explores the political drive for more collaboration between different organisations as a mechanism for the delivery of better services. Part three examines a unique piece of legislation in Wales, the Well-Being of Future Generations Act 2015 (WFG Act), and identifies how this may influence the work of local authorities and other organisations in relation to health and its social determinants. In part four, we draw on the available evidence on how this is working so far and focus on two key policy areas jointly driven by the Cymru Well Wales partnership – ‘Adverse Childhood Experiences’ (ACEs) and ‘The first 1,000 days’. Finally, our conclusions indicate that regardless of where public health is located, the policy context in Wales is quite different, and the key issue is whether this will lead to improved public health outcomes for everyone in Wales.

    Public health in Wales

    The onset of devolution of health services across the United Kingdom (UK) has seen significant divergence through an asymmetric process where distinctive national characteristics of public services delivery have emerged (Bevan et al, 2014). Prior to this, as McClelland (2002, p 325) states, the National Health Service (NHS) in Wales was perceived as ‘forming an adjunct to the English health service’. Since 1999, legislative and policy frameworks have been viewed by the predominantly Welsh Labour-led devolved governments as a mechanism to assert political demarcation from Westminster. This was famously encapsulated in the term ‘clear red water’ set out in a speech delivered by the First Minister Rhodri Morgan in December 2002 (Morgan, 2017). While this philosophy was originally constructed in differentiating Welsh Labour from the marketisation strategies of New Labour in London, it grew in contextual importance.

Innovations in CBT for Childhood Anxiety, OCD, and PTSD
  • Improving Access and Outcomes
  • Edited by Lara J. Farrell, Thomas H. Ollendick, Peter Muris
  • Published online:
    12 April 2019
    Print publication:
    25 April 2019
  • Childhood anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) represent some of the most common mental health disorders affecting young people, often leading to major life impairments. This book brings together the world's leaders in treatment science to provide evidence-based psychosocial interventions for these disorders. It supplies practitioners and researchers with innovations in clinical science, highlighting advances in technology and neuroscientific discovery which have informed the development of these novel treatment advances. The authors tackle the two main challenges facing the field of childhood psychopathology: improving access to evidence-based cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) through innovations in treatment delivery, and increasing the positive outcomes for youth through unique therapies. Any reader who wants to be informed on the latest approaches to cognitive and behavioural interventions and how to apply them will benefit from this book.

  • Paying the forest for electricity: a modelling framework to market forest conservation as payment for ecosystem services benefiting hydropower generation

  • MAURICIO E. ARIAS, THOMAS A. COCHRANE, KEITH S. LAWRENCE, TIMOTHY J. KILLEEN, TRACY A. FARRELL
  • Journal:
    Environmental Conservation / Volume 38 / Issue 4 / December 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    09 September 2011, pp. 473-484

  • The operation and longevity of hydropower dams are often negatively impacted by sedimentation. Forest conservation can reduce soil erosion, and therefore efforts to maintain upstream forest cover within a watershed contribute to the economic life span of a hydropower facility. The cost of forest conservation can be viewed as an investment in hydropower and be financed via a payment for ecosystem services (PES) scheme. A novel modelling framework is used to estimate payments for forest conservation consisting of: (1) land-use change projection; (2) watershed erosion modelling; (3) reservoir sedimentation estimation; (4) power generation loss calculation; and (5) PES scheme design. The framework was applied to a proposed dam in Cambodia (Pursat 1). The estimated net present value of forest conservation was US$ 4.7 million when using average annual climate values over 100 years, or US$ 6.4 million when considering droughts every eight years. This can be remunerated with annual payments of US$ 4.26 ha−1 or US$ 5.78 ha−1, respectively, covering forest protection costs estimated at US$ 0.9 ha−1 yr−1. The application of this type of PES represents a rational option that allows for conservation and development of hydropower watersheds susceptible to erosion and sedimentation.

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