Me-Search and Re-Search A Guide for Writing Scholarly Personal Narrative Manuscripts Robert Nash, The University of Vermont DeMethra LaSha Bradley, University of Vermont Published 2011 From the Foreword: Robert and DeMethra’s book, Me-Searching and Re-Search, has caught my fancy in a number of ways. The book title cleverly captures what SPN is all about—it is about self narratives (the […]
Read moreAndrea and I were both taking our first steps into the world of ELT, she as a nine-year old pupil and I as a teacher freshly out of what passes as ITE in Greece. I’d noticed her on occasion, waiting alone at the lobby, generally keeping to herself, sometimes reading a list of irregular verbs or, just as often, looking […]
Read more…. at the risk of us becoming overblogged / blogged out, I am copying here Eljee’s recent message to all PGR students about the PGR blog which has similar but also different functions from this our LTE Doctoral Community Blog. (RF) I’d like to invite you to take a look at the new PGR Blog! http://pgrschoolofeducation.wordpress.com/ This is an online […]
Read moreJuup and I have been teaching and researching together in the area of Developing Researcher Competece (DRC) for some years now – for example see the earlier ‘In the Raw’ posting about the work – on which Juup had led – regarding DRC and intentionality as set in an ecological psychological perspective. The DRC course we co-tutor makes substatial use of reflection as […]
Read moreHow does this sound to you Mariam and Viv? http://chronicle.com/article/Replacing-the-Transience-of/45530/
Read moreHi folks, At the conference, I mentioned a distinction that I thought could be useful to us between usable and useful knowledge. I said I would pass on the reference. Well, I had come across it in Wikely & Muschamp (2004) and I have since followed up their acknowledgement of Baker (2003). In so doing, however, I have discovered that […]
Read moreThere 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- […]
Read moreWe gave the following paper this week: Leah Davcheva and Richard Fay —– “Linguistic Identity-Play Amongst Sephardic Jews in Bulgaria: A Narrative Study”. Paper presented at the Language, Identity, and Intercultural Communication joint conference of the British Association for Applied Linguistics Intercultural Communication Special Interest Group and The Annual Bloomsbury Round Table, 9th -10th June, 2011, Birkbeck College, University of […]
Read moreFamilies, relationships and societies Journal: Call for papers Families, Relationships and Societies An international journal of research and debate Joint Managing Editors: Tess Ridge, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath and Brid Featherstone, National University of Ireland, Galway Publisher: The Policy Press Aims and scope Starting in 2012, with 3 issues per annum, Families, Relationships and Societies […]
Read moreLou Harvey writes: Half a day back from Finland, exhausted but happy, and readjusting to dark nights, rainy days and a vegetarian diet, I post a link to my blog with a reflection on my first conference experience: http://louharvey-phd.blogspot.com/2011/06/finland-finland-finland.html
Read moreDear Narrative Matters 2010 Participant, We are delighted to announce the publication of Volume 1, Issue 1, of Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations, & Interventions, the new online, peer-reviewed journal published by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. We invite you to visit the Narrative Works website to view the articles included […]
Read moreAs the first poster, I would like to thank Richard and Eljee for making this conference happen, and express my appreciation of Mariam and Peter’s technological wizardry which enabled Magdalena to join us remotely from Uruguay! It was great too, to finally meet Achilleas and Magda, having read so much of their writing here on this blog… I very much enjoyed all […]
Read moresociopedia.isa ‘Living Social Science’ – a new concept — An online database for “state-of-the-art” entries in Sociology sociopedia.isa is a new concept in the production and dissemination of knowledge. It combines the best of two worlds: the opportunities the internet offers for rapid publication and the scientific quality guaranteed by thorough and imaginative editing and peer review. While experienced editors […]
Read more…and after my third outing, I feel no less excited, engaged and exhilarated by the ideas expressed, the connections made in conversation and the potent sense of purpose that pervades everything at the Congress. Here is a body of scholars actively striving for a better world, for social justice in all its forms and for an education that is both […]
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