Conducting fieldwork is in itself a rite of passage for me. It symbolises another milestone in my PhD journey. Through these reflections, I wish to highlight the procedures and the learning process that took place while preparing for my fieldwork in the UK and during my fieldwork in Malaysia, my home country. Before I started my fieldwork, like other PhD […]
Read moreIn this post, I will share my experience of giving an intercultural-related workshop by using creative visual methods at the University of Central Lancashire. (Fun facts: the two flowers are Lancashire roses.) Following the IALIC conference in Beijing, UCLan invited Kelly and me to give a 3 hours workshop for their students. The main purpose of the workshop was to provoke students’ […]
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LANTERN Lunchtime Talks Ellen Wilkinson C3.30 Using visual-creative-arts to explore intercultural personhood and maths identities Zhuomin Huang and Kelly Pickard-Smith Friday 26th February 12.00-13.00 Zhuomin and Kelly share some of the visual-creative-arts methods they are using in their doctoral research projects, focussing on the kinds of insights these methods might enable and how they allow them to explore the key concepts […]
Read moreIntroducing and Exploring Intercultural Relations in Everyday Life August 9-19, 2016 in Turku, Finland http://www.tuas.fi/en/study-tuas/exchange-students/international-summer-school/ We keep hearing that we are living in an intercultural world and that we need to prepare for it. What does this really mean? How do we meet ‘other’ people? What are intercultural relations made of? This introductory course will tell you everything about the […]
Read moreWe am pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue issue of the International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities in Education 1(1). http://www.igi-global.com/journals/abstract-announcement/132256 A call for papers is included below. The next issue 1(2) will be a special issue dedicated to intercultural competences. Please also submit your proposals for special issues to the editors. Please contact us with […]
Read morePlease see the invitation below from the organisers: On Friday 24th June 2016 from 10am to 5.30pm we are holding a one-day conference for up to 50 PhD students who are researching any aspect of Global Englishes. The event will be held in the luxurious Markus Liebherr Lounge of Southampton Football Club, which is close to Southampton Central station, and also offers free parking […]
Read moreThis is the first talk in the seminar series Research Methods in Intercultural Communication, hosted by the Languages Group at Edinburgh Napier. ‘Rethinking Concepts and Goals in Intercultural Communication: Insights from Global Englishes Research’ Will Baker (Centre for Global Englishes, University of Southampton) http://www.southampton.ac.uk/ml/about/staff/wmlb.page Date: Wednesday 2nd March, 3pm (Coffee and refreshments will be served at 2.45pm) Venue: Room 2/05, Edinburgh Napier Business School, Craiglockhart Campus, 219 Colinton Rd, Edinburgh EH14 1DJ – […]
Read moreThe Ireland International Conference on Education (IICE-2016) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The IICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education. The aim of IICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote […]
Read moreI’m happy to say that I’ve had a book chapter published in Learning Across Borders: Perspectives On International And Transnational Higher Education. Leslie Seawright and Amy Hodges (eds). 1st ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. The chapter’s title is “A Cultural Other In Transnational Education: Impact Of Globalization On Student And Teacher Identities” (pp. 193-215). I was asked to contribute […]
Read moreAbstract Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development DOI:10.1080/01434632.2015.1134554 Interviews with a small group of doctoral students at a British university indicate that the students feel that the programme provides an environment within which they develop interculturality through reflexive engagement with the PhD community and in some cases with the participants in their research. Significant here is that they are interpretivist, […]
Read more.. and I am pleased to let you know that the following chapter has now been published: Edge, J. & Attia, M. (2016). Communication, technology, and collaboration for innovation. In A. Tajino, T. Stewart & D. Dalsky (Eds.), Team teaching and team learning in the language classroom: Collaboration for innovation in ELT (pp. 115-126). London: Routledge. ABSTRACT The demands of ICT in education […]
Read moreI’m delighted that – as a consolidation of the first AHRC project I was involved in (the network grant Researching Multilingually), and as a stepping stone towards the current one (Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, the Body, Law and the State) – we have just issued (initially to the researchers in this first RM-ly network) a Call for […]
Read moreThe following abstract has been accepted for the 44th annual meeting for the National Association for Ethnic Studies (Arizona, USA) Teacher Education as Form of Resistance: Insights from Gaza, Palestine Nazmi Al-Masri, Mariam Attia, Katja Frimberger, Grazia Imperiale, and Giovanna Fassetta This presentation draws on an educational project by the title Researching Multilingually at the Borders of Language, […]
Read moreAbstracts recently accepted for the 2nd BIBAC (Building Interdisciplinary Bridges Across Cultures) International Conference (hosted by Cambridge University, UK, 31st July-01st August, 2016): Al-Masri, N., Frimberger, K. and Attia, M. (2016). ‘Hope is our bread and butter’: towards a human ecological language pedagogy in the context of siege. Fay, R., Hawley, R. and Sherwood, E. (2016, July). ‘Klezmer returns to college’ – intercultural experience and social engagement through […]
Read moreAbstracts recently accepted for The Twelfth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (hosted by University of Illinois, USA, 18th-21st May, 2016): Halldorsdottir, T. (2016, May). Warring wor(l)ds: stories as soft weapons and resources of hope. Fay, R., Andrews, J., Frimberger, K. and Tordzro, G. (2016, May). Creative interthinking: interthinking creatively. Huang, Z. (2016, May). Through the eye of visual-creative-arts: exploring intercultural personhood.
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