Teaching English - Humanistic approaches an empirical view
As part of its 75th anniversary celebrations, we (The British Council) are re-launching a selection of those publications online. Many of the messages and ideas are just as relevant today as they were when first published. We believe they are also useful historical sources through which colleagues can see how our profession has developed over the years.
Here is a concise and accessible exposition of a wide range of topics in geometric approaches to differential equations. The authors present an overview of this developing subject and introduce a number of related topics, including twistor theory, vortex filament dynamics, calculus of variations, exterior differential systems and Bäcklund transformations. The book is an ideal starting point for graduate students embarking on research.
Learn a range of effective behaviour management techniques for your classroom!
Successful teaching and learning requires a thorough understanding of how to implement a range of effective behaviour management approaches, strategies and philosophies. It is not only essential to put be able to put these approaches into practice, but also have an understanding of the reasoning behind the behaviour and the underlying theoretical perspectives to maintain an effective working environment.
Contemporary Leadership Theories: Enhancing the Understanding of the Complexity, Subjectivity and Dynamic of LeadershipThis book provides a comprehensive overview of basic theoretical approaches of today’s leadership research. These approaches conceive leadership as an interactive and complex process. They stress the significance of the individual perception for developing and forming leadership relations.
Phrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in Tagalog
Kroeger examines the history of the subjecthood debate and uses data from Tagalog to test the theories that have been put forth. His conclusions entail consequences for certain linguistic concepts and theories, and lead Kroeger to assert that grammatical relations are not defined in terms od surface phrase structure configurations, contrary to the assumptions of many approaches to syntax including the Government-Binding theory.
