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Acknowledgements A number o f people have, both wittingly an d unwittingly, helped us in our thinking for thi s handbook. Above all , we extend ou r sinceres t thanks to the student teacher s and universit y supervisors who gave up their valuable time to be interviewed an d to review our materials. They so freely gav e their views and time. For obvious reasons, we have not identified anyon e whom w e hav e interviewed . I t woul d b e iniquitou s t o d o so . Nonetheless, withou t thei r transcripts, this would be a very different handbook. We hope all the participants felt that they got something ou t of those often-lengthy discussions . We certainly found the m enlightenin g and heartening. The authors would like, in particular, to thank the University Grants Committee in Hong Kong which supporte d th e project wit h fundin g throug h th e Teaching Development Grant . The Hong Kong Baptist University and the University of Hong Kong provided infrastructura l and financial support . Special thanks are due to our long-suffering Senio r Research Assistant, Maggie Ma, who, tirelessly an d wit h continue d humour, searche d fo r hidden papers , interviewed, transcribe d and translated to sometimes impossible deadlines and, not the least, kept us in order. She was ably helped by her team of typists. Carmel Wong efficiently kep t our finances in order. Thanks are also due to the staff of Hong Kong University Press for their painstaking work. In particular, we wish to acknowledge the great debt that the project owes to our Project Consultant, Professor Michael Williams formerly of the University of Wales in Swansea, UK. With humour and verve, he played a key role in the interviewing, and in providing us with someone off whom we could bounce our ideas. He was crucial in honing our thinking about supervisory conferences, an d this handbook is, in many ways, a direct result of our good fortune in being able to work with xviii฀Bette r฀Supervision,฀Better฀Teaching:฀A฀Handbook฀for฀Teaching฀Practice฀Supervisors฀ him. Thanks Michael for your ideas and your stimulating company. We also extend ou r appreciatio n t o the Centre for Translation a t the Hong Kong Baptist University for their service in translating this handbook into the Chinese version. We wish t o acknowledg e th e followin g publisher s wh o hav e kindl y grante d u s th e permission to include their materials in this handbook: AACTE Publications, Ablex Publishing Corporation, American Psychological Association, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Brow n & Benchmark, Huma n Kinetics , INSTE P (Hon g Kong) , Kogan Page , McGraw-Hill Inc. , National Institut e o f Educatio n (Singapore) , Praege r Publishers , Stanle y Thornes Publishers, and Teaching Education. ...

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