"Besides, isn't this what we always wanted?"

In an article titled ‘Empowerment as a Pedagogy of Possibility‘ (Language Arts 64 4), Roger Simon makes the following observation: As an introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular forms of social life, education always presupposes a vision of the future. In this respect, a curriculum and its supporting pedagogy are a vision of our own dreams of ourselves, […]

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New webpage, comments welcome

After lots and lots of procrastination, I finally have a workable version of my webpage online: https://sites.google.com/site/achkostoulas/. I expect that I will eventually populate it with abstracts, papers and presentations that are already scattered across the web, and I may be creating versions in other languages as well. But I am reasonably happy with it for the time being. For the […]

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New Dynamics of Language Learning (Complexity papers)

There is, I think, very little point on trying to complete or complete with Lou’s comprehensive and engaging narrative on the Jyväskylä conference, so I will confine myself to reporting on a few papers that were of particular interest to me. The theme which links these papers is that they are all informed by complexity thinking, which involves -in brief- […]

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Stasis and change…

The paper I am presenting at the LTE event in early June is (tentatively) titled Stasis and Change: conceptualising ELT as a complex dynamical system. The paper was originally written for the New Dynamics conference in Finland, where it will be presented as ‘Places for Pedagogy, Spaces for Innovation: the emergence of eclectic pedagogy in ELT settings‘. The paper reports on […]

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Arts and Education: Creative Ways into Languages

On Saturday (7th May) I am presenting a paper at a conference Arts and Education: Creative Ways into Languages in Athens. This international conference is organised by the University of Athens (Department of Primary Education) and the Greek Association of Primary Music Education, a professional body which represents music education specialists that teach Art in the primary education system. To provide […]

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On review…

Some of you know that I am in the editorial team of the Journal of English as an International Language. Despite the fancy title of ‘Editor’ (a gross case of ‘title inflation’), all I really do is forward papers to people from a pool of reviewers, or occassionally review them myself if the topic is within my sphere of expertise. […]

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Suresh Canagarajah's blog

Some of you might be interested in the blog that Suresh Canagarajah kept during his tenure as chief editor of TESOL Quarterly. There are a lot of useful insights there on topics such as democratising the exchange of scholarly information, successful and less-successful publication strategies (make sure you don’t cc private emails to the editor), dealing with rejection letters (apparently […]

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Between Paradigms…

Apparently, the paper I presented last May in Alexandroupolis, Greece has been included in the conference proceedings. My contribution begins on page 401. The full reference is: Kostoulas, A. (2010). Between paradigms: a case study of a language school in Greece. Paper presented at the 13th International Conference on “Intercultural Education, Immigration, Conflict Management and Pedagogy for Democracy”. Alexandroupolis, Greece: […]

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