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    Language Practices in Philippine Education and Other Public Spaces

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book investigates how translanguaging is employed for pedagogical purposes and describes how speakers use translanguaging in specific multilingual contexts. It examines the beliefs and perceptions that shape translanguaging in different public spaces and interrogates the notion of translanguaging through the lens of various Philippine public spaces. This book also focuses on the breakthroughs ... Read more

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  • The Best for Our Children

    Critical Perspectives on Literacy for Latino Students

    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    This watershed volume brings together the foremost leading authorities and scholars lending their individual voices to a single, urgent issue: literacy for Latino students. In a departure from traditional paradigms, Latinos examine their own lived experiences in U.S. schools and offer sound theories born from positions of expertise and first-hand knowledge as researchers and educators. Their ... Read more

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  • Accelerated Cosmic Expansion

    Proceedings of the Fourth International Meeting on Gravitation and Cosmology

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Proceedings from the 2012 Fourth International Meeting on Gravitation and Cosmology, focusing on accelerated cosmic expansionThis volume provides both an update and a review of the state of alternative theories of gravity in connection with the accelerated expansion of the universe issue. Different theoretical proposals exist to explain the acceleration in the cosmic expansion, generating the dark ... Read more

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  • The Deception Within

    One of the eight siblings is as 'saintly' as can be... or so they thought. They could not believed what they had discovered. How was the family broken into a million pieces? Will they be able to return to a life that was once peaceful, loving and harmonious? This is a heartbreaking true family saga. ... Read more

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  • The Deception Within

    An idyllic family, loving parents and eight contented siblings.One of the eight siblings is as 'saintly' as can be… or so they thought. They could not believe what they had discovered. How was the family broken into a million pieces? Will they be able to return to a life that was once peaceful, loving, and harmonious? This is a heartbreaking, true family saga."What shall it profit a man if he ... Read more

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  • Chicago Latina Trailblazers

    Testimonios of Political Activism

    Series series Latinos in Chicago and Midwest
    Mexican American and Puerto Rican women have long taken up the challenge to improve the lives of Chicagoans in the city’s Latino/a/x communities. Rita D. Hernández, Leticia Villarreal Sosa, and Elena R. Gutiérrez present testimonies by Latina leaders who blazed new trails and shaped Latina Chicago history from the 1960s through today.Taking a do-it-all attitude, these women advanced agendas, built ... Read more

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  • Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies

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  • Favela

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  • Translanguaging with Multilingual Students

    Learning from Classroom Moments

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