{CONCEPTUALISING} Intercultural Musicking … appropriate versus appropriative methodology

As many of you will know, for the last decade I have been teaching World Music Ensemble Performance (klezmer) – WMEP-klezmer for short – in our Music Department. I have a musical self (website) in addition to my TESOL and Intercultural Communication/Education academic roles. WMEP-klezmer is an area of my professional practice that has its conceptual underpinnings and its research […]

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Paradigm humility and appropriate methodology in Global Mental Health

White, R. and Fay, R. (2016, April). Paradigm humility and appropriate methodology in Global Mental Health. Paper (to be) presented at The Emergence of Global Mental Health workshop, hosted by Kings College, London, April 28th, 2016. Discussion Topics: How is ‘mental health’ as an object of knowledge and global intervention construed, operationalized, and governed? What new networks of actors are emerging in […]

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TESOL Podcast site

One of the MA TESOL students, Paul Jones, has alerted us to a site that hosts podcasts of various TESOL related issues. Here is one that Paul recommended … An interview with Adrian Holliday on Appropriate Methodology … and here are a few more interviews that might be of interest to our community: Tom Farrell on Reflective Practice Richard Smith on […]

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IALIC Conference in November in Beijing

I am a long-standing member of IALIC and contributor at its conferences but this time, for the Beijing conference, I decided to go for something a bit different: Ethnomusicological bridges and social engagement through klezmer: interdisciplinary dialogues and intercultural performances Richard Fay, Ros Hawley and Elinor Sherwood (Music Department, The University of Manchester) ABSTRACT Whilst the concept of ‘culture’ has […]

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RM-ly encouragement to branch out towards (appropriate methodology considerations in/for) Global Mental Health

As led by Ross White (Glasgow), and together with colleagues from Uganda (Rosco Kasujja and Ponsiano Okalo), our following conference paper has been accepted. In it, we use our experiences (for the AHRC project, Case Study 1) in Lira in northern Uganda (see the researching-multilingually-at-borders.com website for more on this case study) as a stimulus to think more about appropriate […]

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Adrian Holliday – Revisiting appropriate methodology, BANA, TESEP and ‘contexts’

Adrian Holliday gave a guest lecture at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, Warwick University last week in which he revisited  his ‘original thinking about appropriate methodology and social context, and re-examine[d] the concepts of BANA, TESEP and context’ arguing for a need to look at the wider picture. Click here for the video of his talk and here for the […]

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Narrative Inquiry (NI) and Appropriate Methodology (AppM) by Richard Fay

Richard writes: As many of you know, as prompted by a seminar by Adrian Holliday (based on his 1992 article) and sessions by former colleague Mike Beaumont, the major revelation from my own MA studies (back in the day) concerned appropriate methodology for TESOL, a very current issue then (before Holliday’s seminal publication on this theme was published in 1994) […]

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