Positive Pedagogical Praxis Series

Titles in the series

  1. Learner-Controlled Tasks for the Autonomy Classroom: A Teacher's Resource Book by Christian Ludwig and Lawrie Moore-Walter. Read more... ​
  2. Voicing Learning by Tim Murphey Read more...
  3. Conversation Strategies and Communicative Competence by Christian Jones Read more...
  4. The Big Beasts of English Grammar: An Exploration of Form and Function in Conversations by Christian Jones and Graham Burton Read more...​
  5. Students’ Narrative Journeys in Learning Communities: Mapping Landscapes of Practice by Daniel Hooper Read more...​
​Forthcoming titles
  • The Personalized Learning Module: A Collection of Learning Advising Tools by Stephanie Lea Howard, Gamze Guven Yalcin and Tarik Uzun
  • A Dynamic Guide to Empowering Language Learners (tentative title) by Hatice Karaaslan
  • Cultivating Confidence in Writing edited by Ashton E. Dawes and Kathryn Jurns
  • Screen Media in Language Education edited by Adrian Leis and Matthew Wilson

About the Series

Overview
This series contains 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. 

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
 
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.
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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.
Books and other works: Voicing Learning (Candlin & Mynard), 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.