Last Thursday we were very privileged to have Prof. Nazmi Al-Mari from the Islamic University Gaza (IUG) with us for an hour or so. Nazmi, an alumnus of the University of Manchester, had managed to leave Gaza for a few days in a seemingly rare opening of the borders. We are very grateful that he managed to make Manchester a part of […]
Read moreThis call for papers is from Association for Language Awareness for their 13th International Conference which will take place in Vienna from July 19-22, 2016. The submission deadline for both is 15 November 2015. below are the conference themes and plenary speakers and note that there is also the possibility of scholarships for PhD students and early career researchers. For more details […]
Read moreExciting opportunity to hear Professor Nazmi Al-Masri from the Islamic University Gaza. Nazmi is an alumnus of the University of Manchester and is working ‘under siege’ in Gaza, developing amongst other things an online teacher education programme for Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL). The event will take the form of a conversation on ‘Developing education in challenging contexts’, […]
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World Refugee Day was on June 20th, a few days ago now, but the stories and statistics don’t disappear once the day is over. This year the focus was on the 10 million or so displaced children and their urgent need for education. Find out more here. Here is a link to the UN Refugee Agency
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This new issue is available at Wiley Online library. See below for content and links to individual articles. President’s Messages Intercultural Engagement (pages 163–164) Jacque Van Houten Article first published online: 22 JUN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/flan.12142 Editor’s Message (pages 165–167) Anne Nerenz Article first published online: 22 JUN 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/flan.12141 Teaching Language Learners to Elaborate on Their Responses: […]
Read moreA very interesting looking book to be published on July 29th, 2015. Carefully curated to highlight research from more than twenty countries, the International Critical Pedagogy Reader introduces the ways the educational phenomenon that is critical pedagogy are being reinvented and reframed around the world. A collection of essays from both historical and contemporary thinkers coupled with original essays, introduce […]
Read moreA novel conference taking place from Friday 15th January – Sunday 17th January 2016, London, United Kingdom hashtag n. (on social media web sites and applications) a word or phrase preceded by a hash and used to identify messages relating to a specific topic; (also) the hash symbol itself, when used in this way. Hashtags originated on, and are chiefly associated […]
Read moreThe UNICollaboration team organises a biannual international conference on telecollaboration in university education. The next conference will be held at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland on 21-23 April 2016. This is a great opportunity to share your experiences of online intercultural exchange projects and to learn about the most up to date research and practice in this area. Here is the […]
Read moreSomething light(er)-weight for the weekend – an entertaining, but also thought-provoking article from The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/all-possible-humanities-dissertations-considered-as-single-tweets It condenses into tweets all possible angles taken on research by academic theses. I find these two particularly amusing: A problem you thought you could solve defines your field; you can’t imagine the field without the problem. The name we’ve been using for […]
Read moreAs we get your permission, we’ll be posting all the presentations from Bring it Back Home 2015 here. Gary Motteram Paul Breen Magda Rostron Lada Smirnova Sutraphorn Tantiniranat (Khwan) Siti Fitriyah (Fitri) Eljee Javier
Read moreMothertongue -is a culturally sensitive, professional counselling and listening service where people are heard with respect in their chosen language. The charity offers holistic support to people and professional development to staff and volunteers from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities. It has just launched the anthology of interpreters’ writing: In Other Words, which was a great success. Details: If […]
Read moreI realise that this is only one aspect of what we heard yesterday, but FutureLearn are offering a MOOC on Mindfulness from September. There are quite a lot of MOOCs from all the providers on aspects of Developing Researcher Competence. Sarah Twiby, one of our current MAs working on her dissertation, is using this YouTube channel to support her understanding […]
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Here is the link to Magdalena’s article that she was referring to yesterday. Congratulations Made on getting published too! http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjet.12302/epdf
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