This essential and aspirational text is aimed at all beginning teachers whatever your training route, age phase and setting. It explicitly adopts and builds on a new metaphor for teachers' professional learning as interplay between the body of public knowledge and the practical wisdom of teachers within a particular school setting. It also accepts that 'telling' you how to teach is ineffective; you need to 'become a teacher' because it involves identity and practice. Inquiry-based critical...

This book provides a one-stop research-informed professional learning guide for teacher educators to support their work-based development of values, pedagogy and scholarship.Drawing on international research and professional development initiatives, it provides a scholarly but action-orientated text. This practical guide supports the professional learning and career development of teacher educators, showing how to learn in and through the workplace. Key areas of focus include pedag...

Canadian Reptile Hobbyist features articles from Canadian experts plus guest authors from around the world. Each issue covers topics related to the captive care and breeding of reptiles and amphibians that will appeal to herpetoculturists everywhere. News & events, articles on conservation, and advertising focus mainly on Canadian content. As the world’s second-largest country geographically, we may not be able to meet together, but we can connect via the magazine. You might t...

The New Carbon Economy provides a critical understanding of the carbon economy. It offers key insights into the constitution, governance and effects of the carbon economy, across a variety of geographical settings.Examines different dimensions of the carbon economy from a range of disciplinary angles in a diversity of settingsProvides ways for researchers to subject claims of newness and uniqueness to critical scrutinyHistoricize...

A minor seismic disturbance in a remote section of the Pacific causes barely a ripple of concern for Kai Tanaka, acting director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu. But when an airliner en route from L.A. to Sydney vanishes in the same location, Kai is the first to realize that a mysterious explosion has unleashed a series of massive waves destined to obliterate Hawaii. In just one hour, Kai will lose all he has ever known—including his wife and daughter—unless he can save t...