Candlin & Mynard ePublishing: encouraging, exploring, enabling

Positive Pedagogical Praxis: The Quickstart Series

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. 

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About the Series

Overview
This series will contain short, practical, exciting, and useful books for educators seeking to help teachers enhance their ways of teaching. Books in the Positive Pedagogical Praxis: The Quickstart Series focus on practical activities, procedures, and principles that can create more profound learning in a variety of ways. The books can be described in the following ways:

• The books are easy to read and the procedures and activities easy to implement.
• The books are written in a teacher-friendly, down to earth, non-abstract style.
• The books are focused on activities; theory is given briefly and with ample references for further reading if teachers desire more.

 
The titles in this series seek to provide teachers with quick ways to implement profound ideas little by little into their classrooms. The books could also be used for in-service training, workshops, and teacher-development sessions at conferences. 

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.
 
Titles under consideration include:

• Ideal Classmates: What Students Want from Others and Themselves
• Action Logging: Getting Student Feedback that Reveals Student Needs and Guides Responsible Teaching
• Stimulating Learning Communities: In and Out of Classes 
• Class Publications: Why When and How?
• Tapping Into Near Peer Role Modeling and Diversity Modeling

 
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.