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Authenticity across languages and cultures
This volume centres around concepts of personal and cultural authenticity in foreign language teaching and learning. The chapters cover a wide range of contexts and disciplines, offering diverse perspectives regarding the role language plays in processes of personal growth, learning, development,...
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Bellies, bowels and entrails in the eighteenth century
This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and perceptions of the self.
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Beyond the metrics
This interdisciplinary book explores how fitness technology affects self-image, anxiety, and social identity, connecting sports science, psychology, and digital culture.
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Charm
The utilization—and weaponization—of charm in contemporary global politicsPolitics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person—perhaps someone we would like to have a beer with. They win elections not because of the elevated rhetorical perform...
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Cultural identities in transition
This book explores the social, educational and linguistic acculturation of a group of Saudi wives and mothers sojourning in New Zealand while their husbands undertook full time study. The book explores their background, the challenges they faced and the changes they made during their sojourn, and...
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Cultural psychology in clinical research and practices
Cultural Psychology in Clinical Research and Practices brings together international scholars and practitioners to examine why cultural psychology is essential for contemporary clinical practice.
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Exploring australian national identity
This book examines the influence of historical and popular figures on the way Australians see themselves in the 21st century. Investigating whether colonial figures such as convicts and bushrangers still influence contemporary Australian identity, and how the influence of sports figures, politici...
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How to overcome your childhood
A guide to breaking free from the enduring, and sometimes damaging, behavioral patterns we learned in childhood. As we try to navigate the complexities and anxieties of adulthood, considering our childhoods can feel like a daunting task. They happened so long ago; we can probably barely remember,...
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International tesol teachers in a multi-englishes community
This book embarks on an ever-expanding array of language, academic mobility, neoliberalism, and accompanying rich scholarly debates, with a focus on the day-to-day work experiences of international English language teachers in Saudi Arabia’s higher education.
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Language teacher emotion regulation
This book is the first comprehensive work on language teacher emotion regulation, filling a salient gap in the literature on teacher emotions and wellbeing. It explores the strategies language teachers use to regulate their emotions, their motives for doing so and the contextual factors influenci...
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Language teacher identity and wellbeing
This book explores how language teacher identity influences and is influenced by wellbeing. It develops our understanding of this interaction through a combination of Indigenous, psychological, critical and postmodern frameworks and the personal perspectives of teachers and researchers.
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Language teacher recognition
This book presents the career narratives of an under-researched group of teachers: immigrant Filipino teachers of English working mainly with young and very young learners in Japan. It provides a nuanced and revealing critique of poststructuralist views of identity and proposes recognition theori...
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Language teacher wellbeing across the career span
This book explores language teacher wellbeing across the lifespan, casting light on the professional trajectory of language teachers. It reveals the personal and professional challenges and resources of teachers at different phases of their careers, and how they can preserve and nurture their wel...
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Language teachers studying abroad
This book focuses on the study abroad experiences of pre-service and in-service language teachers and language teacher educators, discussing their psychological experiences in cognitive, affective and social terms.
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Lessons from exceptional language learners who have achieved nativelike proficiency
This book opens a narrative window into the experiences of learners who achieve nativelike proficiency and offers insights into their pathways to success. Tying together themes of motivation, cognition and identity, the authors explore how these learners became so successful and whether their suc...
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Making of distinctions
This volume explores 'inclusive oppositions' in social sciences, challenging artificial dichotomies and standardization. It focuses on cultural dynamics and identity formation in Kerala, India, highlighting the intersection of gender, identity, religion, ethnicity, caste, and global market forces.
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Max weber's theory of personality
Widely considered the founding-father of Sociology, Sarah Farris's excellently argued book shows that Max Weber was also deeply orientalist.
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Mindsets in language education
This book is devoted to the interdisciplinary investigation of language learner and teacher motivation, competencies, emotions and wellbeing, based on the theories behind mindsets. It includes a range of theoretical and empirical studies and is an invaluable resource for improving the quality of ...
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Motivation, autonomy and emotions in foreign language learning
This book highlights the roles of individual difference variables on the language learning process, exploring them from both the students’ and the teachers’ perspectives. The comparative analysis of these two datasets yields interactional results that have the potential to shape classroom learnin...
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Multilingual selves and motivations for learning languages other than english in asian contexts
This book focuses on individuals learning languages other than English in a range of under-researched Asian contexts. The chapters explore learners’ motivational trajectories, multilingual identities and conceptualisations of the 'ideal multilingual self'.
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On confidence
Confidence is a skill that anyone can learn. Despite the confidence we build over time in our field of work, we tend to overlook the primordial need for a more free ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us in the course of our everyday lives: speaking to strangers at parties, asking ...
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On task
A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this shapes our everyday livesWhy is it hard to text and drive at the same time? How do you resist eating that extra piece of cake? Why does staring at a tax form feel mentally exhausting? Why can your child expertly f...
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Reimagining dialogue on identity, language and power
This book reimagines dialogue as a tool to drive inquiries, encourage reflection and develop meaningful collaborations. It aims to foster public conversations surrounding identity, language and power that inspire criticality, innovation and multimodal engagement.
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Self-knowledge
A practical guide to knowing yourself.Socrates summed up all philosophical commandments with one directive: "Know yourself." Self-knowledge informs not only our identity, but how we make decisions in life, work, and love. Society has no shortage of people and organizations offering to guide us to...
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So lonely
“Inspiring and original.”—Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen FocusA deeply personal, philosophical meditation on the global phenomenon of loneliness.Loneliness increases your chance of early death by 26 percent, places your body under extreme physical st...
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Teacher dialogical self
This book offers a profound and intimate exploration of teacher identity, delving into the intricate interplay between personal and professional dimensions.
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Teacher reflection
This book examines teacher reflection in three main areas: policies, practices and the impact of teacher reflection on teachers’ practices and professional development. The chapters shed light on concerns and challenges experienced by teachers in diverse international contexts and institutions.
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Teachers of multiple languages
This book presents narrative research on individual teachers of multiple languages (TMLs). It uncovers what makes TMLs unique and reveals the complex identities, beliefs and emotions involved in being a TML. The author offers new, globally-relevant insights for language teaching research at indiv...
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The beliefs and experiences of world language teachers in the us
This book tells the stories of 15 world language (WL) teachers in the US through rich descriptions of their lived worlds and experiences. It illustrates in detail how teacher beliefs relate to their practices and are mediated and moderated by their learners, institutional demands, equity and acce...
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The emotionally intelligent office
An exploration of the twenty core emotional skills we need to flourish at work.Work-related stress currently costs the United States economy $300 billion a year. Modern businesses prioritize technical training, yet the true success of a business has little to do with the hard skills taught at bus...
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The interaction order
This volume brings together leading scholars in the area of symbolic interactionism to offer a broad discussion of issues including identity, dialogue and legitimacy.
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The mirror and the mind
How the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awarenessSince the late eighteenth century, scientists have placed subjects—humans, infants, animals, and robots—in front of mirrors in order to look for signs of self-recognition. Mirrors served as the pos...
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The self in context
The Self in Context: Pathways to Flourishing, Learning, and Well-Being explores the dynamic and multifaceted nature of self-related processes—such as self-concept, self-esteem, self-efficacy, self-control, self-identity, self-regulation, and self-determination—and their exponential growth in rese...
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Transnational research in english language teaching
The edited volume contributes to the comprehensive and inclusive understanding of the global ELT landscape in instructional settings within and across countries. It brings together language teachers, educators and researchers who use their experiences of shuttling across borders to reflect on the...
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Who am i?
An interactive guide to our complex and elusive inner selves.One of the most difficult tasks we face as humans is figuring out who we are. "Describe yourself" can be a surprisingly difficult task. Sometimes, we need prompts and suggestions to engage and energize us.With unusual, entertaining, and...
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Who fights for reputation
How psychology explains why a leader is willing to use military force to protect or salvage reputationIn Who Fights for Reputation, Keren Yarhi-Milo provides an original framework, based on insights from psychology, to explain why some political leaders are more willing to use military force to d...
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Why everyone (else) is a hypocrite
The evolutionary psychology behind human inconsistencyWe're all hypocrites. Why? Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind.Robert Kurzban shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the mind's design. The human mind consists of many specializ...
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Willingness to communicate, multilingualism and interactions in community contexts
This book examines the communication behaviours of individuals in multilingual community contexts. Using a complexity lens and the presentation of a revised 3D pyramid model, the authors demonstrate the dynamic nature of willingness to communicate over time and shed new light on processes that af...
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