New Book: International Critical Pedagogy Reader, edited by Antonia Darder, Peter Mayo and João Paraskeva

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A 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 […]

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Call for participation – #hashtag: A Global Conference

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A 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 […]

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International conference on telecollaboration in university education

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The 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 […]

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Dissertations as tweets

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Something 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 […]

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Mother-tongue – a multi-ethnic counselling service with publication

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Mothertongue -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 […]

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Bringing it back home, Mindfulness and sources of information about research methods

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I 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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Reversed bike, confused mind

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On the heels of our “Bring It Back Home 2015” conference (a great event!), here comes an interesting link sent to me by a former student, one clever Qatari man, who is studying Aerospace Engineering in the United States. This short video illustrates difficulties involved in “re-educating” the brain to think differently, outside its usual fixed paradigms. Yes, that’s hard […]

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New materials developed by MA Alumnus, Tyson Seburn: Academic Reading Circles

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Tyson Seburn has published an ebook aimed at teachers who teach Academic English, focussing particularly on academic reading skills. It seems to me that it would be useful for developing critical thinking too. Here is what Tyson says about his new materials:  ARC is an intensive reading approach whose components work on the basis that deep textual comprehension for language learners is developed better through initial collaboration […]

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Ethnography controversy

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What are the academic, methodological and ethical boundaries of ethnography? An interesting discussion has developed in regard to ethnographic research by Alice Goffman, an American scholar and daughter of Erving Goffman.   Alice Goffman. (2014). On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City.   Article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Conflict-Over-Sociologists/230883/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en   Author’s accuracy, reliability and ethical stance […]

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Living intercultural lives ….

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Building on our earlier work (on Ladino and intercultural identity and ‘competence’), am pleased to say that the following contribution by Leah Davcheva and myself has now been accepted for the ‘Identities, Relationships and Languages in Migration’ conference taking place 25th – 27th September, 2015 in Cagliari, Sardinia. “Living Intercultural Lives: Identity Performance and Zones of Interculturality” The Sephardim in […]

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Bring it back home 2015

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It is now less than a week before the 2015 ‘Bring it back home’ event. Last year, eight of our community (2 staff, 5 current students and one postdoc) presented a conference paper they had given in some location around the world during that year. Achilleas was one of those students, and joined us via Skype. This year we are going bigger and […]

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