The Routledge Handbook of Autonomy
by Ben Colburn
English | 2022 | ISBN: 036725820X | 489 pages | True PDF | 6.58 MB
The question of autonomy is fundamental to understanding some of the most important questions and debates in contemporary political and moral life, from freedom of the individual, free will and decision-making to controversies surrounding medical ethics, human rights and the justifications for state intervention. It is also a crucial concept for understanding the development of liberalism.

The Capacity of Local Governments in Europe: Autonomy, Responsibilities and Reforms by Sabine Kuhlmann, Benoît Paul Dumas, Moritz Heuberger
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 129 Pages | ISBN : 3031079612 | 7.3 MB
This book compares local self-government in Europe. It examines local institutional structures, autonomy, and capacities in six selected countries - France, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, and the United Kingdom - each of which represents a typical model of European local government. Within Europe, an overall trend towards more local government capacities and autonomy can be identified, but there are also some counter tendencies to this trend and major differences regarding local politico-administrative settings, functional responsibilities, and resources. The book demonstrates that a certain degree of local financial autonomy and fiscal discretion is necessary for effective service provision.

Jo Mynard, "Autonomy Support Beyond the Language Learning Classroom: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective "
English | ISBN: 1788929039 | 2022 | 548 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Through the application of self-determination theory (SDT) to research and practice, this book deepens our understanding of how autonomous language learning can be supported and understood within environments outside of the classroom. Theoretical, empirical and practice-focused chapters examine autonomy support in a range of contexts and settings, dealing with learning environments and open spaces, communities and relationships, and advising and self-access language learning. They reveal what occurs beyond the classroom, how socializing agents support autonomous motivation and wellness, and how SDT can enhance our understanding of supporting language learner autonomy. It will be of interest to language teachers, university lecturers and learning advisors who are providing support outside the classroom, as well as to graduate students and researchers who are working in the fields of applied linguistics and TESOL.

Melancholic Travelers: Autonomy, Hybridity, and the Maternal By Nowak, Katarzyna
2007 | 158 Pages | ISBN: 3631556276 | PDF | 28 MB
The book analyzes traveling post-colonial subjects in recent prose by women writers of South Asian origin, tracing the links between thetropes of femininity, silence, loss, and migration. Traveling is understood as an act of generating meaning out of movement, displacement andmigration, while the position of traveling subjects is seen as that of a paradoxical liminality, yet carrying the insurgent potential of finding newmodes of agency. The argument evolves from crossing boundaries of one's own body towards radical transgression of borders of identity.Before the traveler is able to transgress the limitations exhorted by forces beyond a single person's grasp, she has to establish the boundariesof her own identity - only in order to shed its steadiness and discover liberating instability.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 0197563899 | 217 pages | True PDF EPUB | 13.57 MB
Imagine for a moment the only way to confirm a yes-no question was by saying Yeah . How different would this make our communication? Relying on a large corpus of naturally occurring recordings of spontaneous social interaction, this book explores all of the ways that we confirm questions in our everyday social lives.
Tanya Stivers analyzes what these different ways of responding allow us to do that is unique to each answer type. When do we answer with Yeah rather than He is , for instance; or when do we use more complicated forms of confirming? This information provides us with the basic response possibility space. From that point we can examine what the range of responses, in particular answers, tells us about what is important to us in managing social relationships through social interaction. The book explains that we can conceptualize the response possibility space as having three dimensions: alignment, autonomy, and affiliation. Speakers rely on the details of their response to position themselves at a particular point in that three-dimensional space, sometimes accepting trade-offs among the dimensions to achieve a stance that is higher in alignment and autonomy and lower in affiliation or higher in affiliation and autonomy but lower in alignment.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1786308347 | 251 pages | True PDF | 11.28 MB
Energy autonomy is an emerging concept that is, as yet, poorly identified in France. It can mean taking ownership of certain issues related to energy, its production, or, indeed, becoming self-sufficient, and it can apply equally to individuals, communities and buildings.
While there are numerous new developments – renewable energies, smart grids and self-consumption – it is becoming difficult to know what this idea of "autonomy" covers, just as it is difficult to define "independence" and "self-sufficiency", which are often associated with it. However, these three concepts are key to thinking about the energy system and deciding its future. Covering distinct ideas, they are often reduced to economic and productive factors. This ambiguity in their meanings is responsible for the misunderstandings, delusions and obstacles that hamper the implementation of the energy transition.

Learner and Teacher Autonomy in Higher Education: Perspectives from Modern Language Teaching (Foreign Language Teaching in Europe) By Manuel Jiménez Raya (editor), José Javier Martos Ramos (editor), Maria Giovanna Tassinari (editor)
2017 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 3631659849 | PDF | 2 MB
This volume seeks to foster the development of teacher and learner autonomy in language learning in higher education. It pools the insights and experiences of a group of international researchers who present their reflections and research on different aspects of autonomy and related issues. Although autonomy is acknowledged as one of the main goals of education, in higher education the need for accountability and standardisation of learning outcomes may constitute external limitations to its development. In order to overcome teaching traditions and mainstream academic culture, teachers may need to reorient themselves and face the challenge of a substantial change involving their own and their learners' beliefs, their practice and their role in the institution.

Learner Autonomy in the English Classroom: Empirical Studies and Ideas for Teachers By Paul Lennon (editor)
2012 | 409 Pages | ISBN: 3631624123 | PDF | 3 MB
The volume consists of twelve classroom studies concerned with the implementation of learner autonomy in English classes. The individual studies range from primary school level to university level. They include studies on multi-media dictionary work, reading logs, peer correction, communication strategies, vocabulary learning strategies, oral proficiency, as well as work with literary texts and authentic news texts. Two studies focus specifically on the teaching of other subjects in English (Content and Language Integrated Learning). The authors describe their own empirical studies, record their classroom observations and make practical suggestions for teachers to take up in their own classrooms. All the studies are firmly grounded in second language acquisition theory and established didactic principles. They are prefaced by an introduction and a background chapter on the theory and practice of learner autonomy in language teaching.

Geoffrey Brahm Levey, "Authenticity, Autonomy and Multiculturalism "
English | ISBN: 1138845213 | 2015 | 212 pages | EPUB | 487 KB
The concept of "authenticity" enters multicultural politics in three distinct but interrelated senses: as an ideal of individual and group identity that commands recognition by others; as a condition of individuals' autonomy that bestows legitimacy on their values, beliefs and preferences as being their own; and as a form of cultural pedigree that bestows legitimacy on particular beliefs and practices (commonly called "cultural authenticity"). In each case, the authenticity idea is called on to anchor or legitimate claims to some kind of public recognition. The considerable work asked of this concept raises a number of vital questions: Should "authenticity" be accorded the importance it holds in multicultural politics? Do its pitfalls outweigh its utility? Is the notion of "authenticity" avoidable in making sense of and evaluating cultural claims? Or does it, perhaps, need to be rethought or recalibrated?

John Coakley, "Non-territorial Autonomy in Divided Societies "
English | ISBN: 0367595419 | 2020 | 190 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Non-territorial autonomy is an unusual method of government based on the notion of the devolution of power to entities within the state which exercise jurisdiction over a population defined by personal features (such as opting for a particular ethnic nationality) rather than by geographical location (such as the region in which they live). Developed theoretically by Karl Renner in the early twentieth century as a mechanism for responding to demands for self-government from dispersed minorities within the Austro-Hungarian empire, it had earlier roots in the Ottoman empire, and later formed the basis for constitutional experiments in Estonia, in Belgium, and in states with sizeable but dispersed minorities. More recently, efforts have been made to apply it in respect of indigenous communities. This approach to the management of ethnic conflict has attracted a small literature, but there is no comprehensive overview of its application. The intention of this volume is to fill this gap, for the first time offering a comparative assessment of the significance of this political institutional device. Authors of case studies follow a common framework.