Candlin & Mynard ePublishing: encouraging, exploring, enabling

Positive Pedagogical Praxis Series

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Series editor
Tim Murphey, PhD Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland researches Vygotskian sociocultural theory (SCT) with transdisciplinary emphasis on community, play, and music at Kanda University, Japan. His most recent books are Teaching in Pursuit of Wow! (Abax 2012) and Meaningful Action – Earl Stevick’s Influence on Language Teaching (CUP 2013), co-edited with Jane Arnold. He also has a critical novel on the Japanese entrance exam system in Italian, Japanese, and English, The Tale that Wags, along with 40 book chapters. 

Titles in the series

  • Voicing Learning by Tim Murphey Read more...
  • Learner-Controlled Tasks for the Autonomy Classroom: A Teacher's Resource Book by Christian Ludwig and Lawrie Moore-Walter. Read more... ​
  • Conversation Strategies and Communicative Competence by Christian Jones Read more...​
  • The Personalized Learning Module: A Collection of Learning Advising Tools by Stephanie Lea Howard, Tarik Uzun, and Gamze Guven Yalcin, (forthcoming) 
  • Action Logging: Student Action Logging Teaches Teachers What They Need to Know for Better Classes by Daniel Hooper and Tim Murphey (forthcoming) 
  • Imagining Ideal Classmates: For Accelerating Mutual Empathy and Positive Group Dynamics by Tetsuya Fukuda, Joseph Falout, Yoshifumi Fukada, and Tim Murphey (forthcoming) ​

About the Series

Overview
This series will contain practical, exciting, and useful books for educators seeking to enhance their ways of teaching. Books in the Positive Pedagogical Praxis Series focus on practical activities, procedures, and principles that can create more profound learning in a variety of ways. 
The books are written in a teacher-friendly style. The titles in this series seek to provide teachers with ways to implement profound ideas into their classrooms. The books could be used for in-service training, workshops, and teacher-development sessions at conferences. 

​Call for book proposals

Target audiences:
  • Teachers who are looking for practical classroom ideas grounded in theory
  • Graduate students of education who need a starting point for exploration
  • Language teachers, communication trainers, and course developers seeking authoritative resource materials
 
Key features:
Each book will
  • be written by experts in the field
  • link theory to practice and back again
  • contain links to further resources
  • point the reader towards potential areas for research and practice
  • contain between 20,000 and 50,000 words
  
All of the books in this imaginative series provide concise, yet expert overviews of a particular area of the field. Like all the Candlin & Mynard books they are there to help readers explore, encourage and enable their thinking and practice.

Prospective authors should contact the series editor giving a brief overview of their focus area. Depending on the scope, we will then provide a proposal form and solicit further details and sample material.

​Call for book proposals