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Cultivating Professional Development Through Critical Friendship and Reflective Practice: Cases From Japan

10/28/2023

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It is our great pleasure to launch the latest long-awaited volume edited by Adrianne Verla Uchida and Jennie Roloff Rothman. Cultivating Professional Development through Critical Friendship and Reflective Practice: Cases from Japan,  shows us an innovative bottom-up approach to professional development for educators. A critical friendship is where “two teachers come together willingly to explore facets of their development as decided by the friends” (Farrell, Foreword). These individuals might be colleagues, close friends or acquaintances who are an “invaluable, integral aspect of your personal growth as a professional” (Verla Uchida & Roloff-Rothman, Introduction). This volume enhances our knowledge of reflective practice and makes a valuable contribution to the field. The editors and contributing authors show how reflective practice can foster critical friendships as a means of professional development for educators.

Contents

  • Foreword by Thomas S. C. Farrell
  • Introduction by Adrianne Verla Uchida and Jennie Roloff Rothman
Part 1: Intra-Institutional Friendships
  • Chapter 1: Bridging Teaching Beliefs and Visible Behaviors: Data-Led and Dialogic Reflection as an Anchor for Critical Friendship by Andrew Gill and Daniel Hooper 
  • Chapter 2: Embracing Our Contexts: Fostering a Critical Friendship through Conversations on Parenting and Career Trajectories in Tertiary Education by Winifred Lewis Shiraishi and Adrianne Verla Uchida
Part 2: Inter-Institutional Friendships
  • Chapter 3: From Chai Dates to Critical Friends: Reflective Practice as Professional Development by Adrianne Verla Uchida and Jennie Roloff Rothman
  • Chapter 4: Epiphanies in Practice: How Good Friends Can Become Critical Friends by Aviva Ueno and Amanda J. Yoshida
  • Chapter 5: The "Critical" in Our Critical Friendship: Honesty, Candor, and Respect by Jackson Koon Yat Lee and Emily Choong
  • Chapter 6: The Realist and the Idealist: Experiences of Co-running a Teachers’ Reflective Practice Group by Peter Brereton and Michael Ellis
  • Chapter 7: Navigating Changing Identities Through Critical Professional Friendship by Chhayankdhar Singh Rathore and Eucharia Donnery
Part 3: Extra-Institutional Friendships
  • Chapter 8: Cultivating Critical Friendships Through Reflective Practice: A Community of Teachers from Different Educational Institutions by Atsuko Watanabe, Chitose Asaoka, and Akiko Fujii
  • Chapter 9: Critical Co-Presenterships: Podcasting as Reflective Practice by Matthew Y. Schaefer and Robert J. Lowe
  • Chapter 10: Getting on Board: A Phenomenological Approach to a Critical Friendship Between Leaders by Dawn Lucovich and Wayne Malcolm
Conclusions
  • Chapter 11: Tying it All Together: A Roadmap for Cultivating Critical Friendships by Jennie Roloff Rothman and Adrianne Verla Uchida
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Making Space for Autonomy: New Title!

10/16/2023

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We are delighted to announce a new book in the Autonomous Language Learning Series!

Making Space for Autonomy in Language Learning. Edited by Klaus Schwienhorst and Joy Ramos-Gonzalez

This book is the result of the 14th Nordic Conference on Developing Learner Autonomy in Language Learning and Teaching. The event took place at Leibniz Universität Hannover in August 2019. As in the previous Nordic workshops, the aim was to bring together practitioners involved in developing learner autonomy, who took an active role in the procedures. The book showcases theoretical and practical applications to the development of learner autonomy in international contexts.

The book contains
  • Details of the event and its participants
  • Chapters based on two of the plenary talks, one by Leni Dam (Denmark) and the other by Jo Mynard (Japan)
  • Summaries of other talks and posters
  • A conference report written by first-time attendee Masako Wakisaka
  • Photos from the event
  • Personal action plans from several participants
  • An overview of previous and upcoming Nordic workshops

It is available in print and ebook formats. See details here:
https://www.candlinandmynard.com/nordic14.html

Congratulations to the editors and all the contributors!
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    I am the series editor for Candlin & Mynard's Autonomous Language Learning Series. I will occasionally blog about our books and C&M news.

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