Linda C. Jones - Böcker

Game-Based Approaches to CALL features contributions that explore approaches to teaching world languages and cultures that are both computer-assisted and game-based. As the intersection of games and learning constitutes a pedagogical subgenre unto itself, this volume focuses on four key elements of game design and game studies that will shape the future of not only the games industry, but of computer-assisted practices of all kinds, especially CALL. The elements include: player/student agency, which is the theory defining the future of player/student-centred design; serious games, the genre expanding the pedagogical potential of game design; eXtended Realities (XR) and AI storytelling, wielding the technologies shaping the future of the game-based classroom; and multimedia theories of learning and empirical game-based research – case studies at the intersection of CALL and game studies.Maximizing the learning potential of constantly evolving modern technologies, the contributors to this volume offer a transformative perspective for students, professors, researchers, and practitioners of linguistics.

Public Health: Building Innovative Practice examines the main challenges facing public health today and fosters an informed and creative response by practitioners. It explores effectiveness in team working, communication, managing change and inter-agency working, ethics and reflective practice. It addresses the key areas of public health practice including:

" analysis and use of information to improve health and wellbeing

" collaborative working to plan and implement programmes and interventions

" assessing evidence of effectiveness

" managing risk and reducing health inequalities

" reviewing and influencing public health policy.

Public Health: Building Innovative Practice provides students with knowledge and skills from which to build innovative practice. It is an ideal text for courses on public health and health promotion.

The second edition of A Reader in Promoting Public Health brings together a selection of readings that explore and challenge current thinking in the field of multidisciplinary public health. This thoroughly updated and revised new edition addresses contemporary issues that are high on the agenda of public health, and enables the reader to understand and negotiate this broad and dynamic field of study.

The book is organised into five sections, each with an accessible and student-friendly introduction that pulls together the key themes and issues:

-Back to the future? Reflections on multidisciplinary public health takes stock of the scope and ambition of contemporary public health;

-Research for evidence-based practice explores research methods, tools and techniques for developing effective public health practice;

-Promoting health through public policy examines policy challenges, responses and key debates at national, international and global level :

-Promoting public health at a local level explores public health and health promotion in a participatory and community context;

-Public health for the 21st century: whose voices? whose values? examines debates which expose alternative futures, priorities and boundaries for public health work.

This second edition includes new material on health inequalities, health protection, social marketing and health promotion, as well as highlighting the practical requirements of public health work through 'grass roots' accounts of practice. It will be essential reading for all students of public health and health promotion, as well as for health and social care professionals.