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1. Learning in School-University Partnership

   Sociocultural Perspectives

   By Amy B.M. Tsui, Gwyn Edwards, Fran Lopez-Real, Tammy Kwan, Doris Law, Philip Stimpson, Rosina Tang, Albert Wong

   This volume looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. Its two major themes – school-university partnership and sociocultural and social theories of learning – have both...

   Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
2. Language Policy, Culture, and Identity in Asian Contexts

   Edited by Amy B.M. Tsui, James W. Tollefson

   Bringing together scholarship on issues relating to language, culture, and identity, with a special focus on Asian countries, this volume makes an important contribution in terms of analyzing and demonstrating how language is closely linked with crucial social, political, and economic forces,...

   Published October 10th 2006 by Routledge
3. Classroom Discourse and the Space of Learning

   By Ference Marton, Amy B.M. Tsui, Pakey P.M. Chik, Po Yuk Ko, Mun Ling Lo

   Classroom Discourse and the Space of Learning is about learning in schools and the central role of language in learning. The investigations of learning it reports are based on two premises: First, whatever you are trying to learn, there are certain necessary conditions for succeeding--although you...

   Published January 4th 2004 by Routledge
4. Medium of Instruction Policies

   Which Agenda? Whose Agenda?

   Edited by James W. Tollefson, Amy B.M. Tsui

   Medium of instruction policies in education have considerable impact not only on the school performance of students and the daily work of teachers, but also on various forms of social and economic (in)equality. In many multiethnic and multilingual countries, the choice of a language for the...

   Published August 31st 2003 by Routledge