Intercultural Skills?
For all of you maybe but especially those with an intercultural focus, the National Occupational Standards for Intercultural Working may be of some interest.
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Intercultural Communication and Ideology
Some of you may be interested to hear that Adrian Holliday’s new book is imminent, and I, for one, am keen to see the finished product having had discussions with him at several points in its gestation including a final session which helped name the final product 🙂 Follow this link for more details.
Read moreEthnography and Education: Volume 5 Issue 2
Julian has alerted us to the following volume which may be of interest to some: Ethnography and Education: Volume 5 Issue 2 is now available online at informaworld Special Issue: ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN THE FIELD: THE COMPLEX NATURE OF DOING EDUCATION ETHNOGRAPHY Guest introduction; Ethical dilemmas in the field: the complex nature of doing education ethnography, Pages 123 – 127, […]
Read moreA Developing Bibliography on Reflection & Reflexivity
This is what I have so far – any suggested additions: Bolton, G. (2005). Reflective practice: Writing and professional development (2nd edn.). London, Sage. Borg, S. (2001). The research journal: A tool for promoting and understanding researcher development, Language Teaching Research, 5, (2), 156-177. Boud, D., Keogh, R. and Walker, D. (1985). Reflection: Turning experiences into learning. London, Kogan […]
Read moreEljee's good funding news ….
I have been awarded a GTRA studentship!!! This award will cover my international student fees and gives me the opportunity to teach on undergraduate and/or post graduate courses. Below is a link for more info: http://www.education.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/funding A long and ardourous journey but well worth all the effort!!!
Read morePonderings on ‘Reflexivity’
This new Discussion Topic of Reflexivity picks up on quite a bit of activity by LTE staff and doctoral participants in recent months, some of which has spilled onto these blog pages (e.g. see comments on Magdalena De Stefani’s page). Some of this activity is directly related to: Doctoral study (as I think Magdalena’s ideas are, and Eljee also dwelt on […]
Read moreSocial Science Update (University of Surrey)
Have any of you explored this site at the University of Surrey? Social Science Update This is published quarterly by the Department of Sociology in order “to improve methodological awareness within the research community”. I have added it to our General Links in this blog.
Read moreDoing Research Multilingually: the Durham seminar
This two-day, exploratory seminar finally took place on 7th and 8th July in the School of Education at the University of Durham. It was, in keeping with the ‘exploratory’ character of the discussions, a small event. Here is a list of participants and their contact emails. In some ways, the topic of this seminar can be understood to be a subset of the following, somewhat broader […]
Read moreGraduation – Congratulations
WooJoo and Tzu-Hsuan (Carol) as PhD graduates Monday 5th July is Graduation day for the School of Education and, amongst others, LTE’s Carol (Tzu-Hsuan Liu) and Christine (WooJoo Lee) will be being ‘doctorised’. Congratulations to them – where they stand may others soon follow!
Read moreA new CALL journal
Gary (Motteram) is involved – as the editor for a special issue of the journal developing the coverage in the recent IATEFL Pre-Conference Event he co-ordinated -with this new journal which may be of interest to the more tech-oriented amongst you: International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT) The mission of the International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and […]
Read morePreparing for the viva
A doctoral student – Fenia – from the Counselling area in our School whose work and thinking about doing research multilingually and whose crosscultural topic have brought her into my space to some extent – will have her viva on the 14th July. Does anyone have advice and /or links to sites of viva Qs/advice etc that Fenia might find […]
Read moreEthnographies of Academic Writing in a Global Context
Paul Smith is involved in this event at the OU next month. Maybe we’ll hear some of his insights in due course …. but here is the programme to keep you going 🙂 STOP PRESS : Virtual discussions “Ethnographies of Academic writing in a global context: the politics of style” involves a face to face day seminar on July 16th at the […]
Read moreSeas of adversity?
Paul, Made, Achilleas …. did I hear right that you have a joint chapter coming out? Any more detail for us?
Read moreJuup Stelma and researcher competence
…. a recent researcher competence article by our LTE colleague Juup Stelma in which he presents an ecological model of developing researcher competence, with a particular focus on doctoral students’ use of research software: “An ecological model of developing researcher competence: the case of software technology in doctoral research”, Instructional Science More information here on the article. The term researcher competence is […]
Read moreEthics approval experiences
This is a discussion thread about this increasingly visible and robust part of the doctoral experience, i.e. ethics approval. Being ethical has always been important as a researcher but now the approval process is becoming more evident. So, perhaps it is time to start sharing our ethical approval experiences? To start the ball rolling, here (no longer active) is what a former Counselling […]
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