The Call for Papers for the three 2-day seminars (March in Durham, April in Bristol, and May in Manchester) in this AHRC project was well responded to and we have now made the selections to have upto 12 papers in each 2-day event. Former and current SoE doctoral researchers will be involved (eg Mariam, Viv, Fenia, Achilleas, and Olga who is not […]
Read moreWith Dr Ayesha Bashiruddin – an MA AppLing alumnus of Julian’s when he was teaching at Durham, and also a doctoral alumnus of OISE in Toronto where she studied with Michael Connelly of Narrative Inquiry fame – of the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan – I have just submitted a funding bid to the British Academy as follows: Developing narrative […]
Read moreCambridge Scholars Press are publishing a new book series, edited by Prof. Fred Dervin (University of Helsinki), titled Post-Intercultural Communication and Education. According to their announcement: This book series, eclectic in scope, seeks to extend and revitalize scholarship on intercultural communication and education by publishing innovative, interdisciplinary and critical analyses of intercultural encounters. “Post-intercultural” refers to a recent paradigm shift in the […]
Read moreYoung reviewers are certainly sought after. “The best referees are postdocs,” says Leslie Sage, a senior physical-sciences editor at Nature in Washington DC. “They are at the top of their game, well versed in the literature and politically naive enough to tell the truth.” For this and more interesting insights into the peer-review process, you may want to have a look into […]
Read moreEljee, Lou and I are about to author our own Canterbury Tales as we have all had our abstracts accepted for this interdisciplinary conference to be held on 12 May 2012 in the beautiful, historical and vibrant city immortalised by Chaucer….who of course thoroughly approved of personal narrative and life history: Experiens, though noon auctorite were in this world, it were […]
Read moreAbout a year ago I submitted a chapter proposal, based on my MA dissertation, for a book idea by Damian Rivers and Stephanie Houghton. After various wranglings with publishers and reworkings on the part of the contributors, their proposal has been accepted by Continuum and will hopefully go to press at the end of 2012. The full reference will be […]
Read moreCould be of interest to some? http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/10/esl-video-feedback?newsfeed=true
Read moreI am just starting to read a book edited by Lucy Green entitled “Learning, teaching and musical identity: voices across cultures” (2011) and was intrigued by how Green positions the chapters by the different researchers vis-a-vis expectations of the research report genre: “The researchers followed standard ethical procedures, including giving participants the right to withdraw and to remain anonymous, seeking […]
Read moreHello everyone, I am writing to update you on our progress with the ‘Researching Multilingually’ research endeavor we have spoken about previously. You may remember that we organized an initial Exploratory Seminar on this theme at Durham university in July 2011, and then followed this up with a Colloquium at the BAAL Annual Meeting in September 2011. Led by Prue […]
Read moreI am delighted to be returning to the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in Champaign-Urbana this year, where I shall be participating in a panel reflecting on the process of ‘becoming’ a scholar. The idea for the panel came from a special issue of the Emotion, Space and Society journal being edited by the panel chair (Sophie Tamas), and all the contributions […]
Read moreHi All The end of November came and went without my finding time or inclination to finish this 3rd Newsletter. Now, it is the year’s end that approaches and, with it, here in Manchester, despite the mild weather, the wintry dark afternoons still encroach although at least the days are beginning to lengthen (albeit hardly perceptibly as yet). It’s a time to be […]
Read moreI have submitted a proposal for a paper at the next Qatar TESOL conference to take place in Doha, Qatar, 13-14 April 2012. Here are more details: Title Are we teaching / are they learning? Academic writing blues. Abstract This paper will focus on the trials and tribulations of teaching academic composition to pre-university students, with reflections on student motivation and teacher […]
Read moreI am pleased to have two book chapters out in quick succession: Davcheva, L, Fay, R. and Byram M. (Dec 2011). Zones of interculturality in postgraduate doctorate supervision. In F. Derwin, A. Gajardo A. and Lavanchy, F. (eds.), Politics of interculturality,(pp.127-149). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press. Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3365-3 / Isbn: 1-4438-3365-7 http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Politics-of-Interculturality1-4438-3365-7.htm This volume also contains chapters by: Fred Dervin, Catherine Doherty, […]
Read moreFirst, in alphabetical author order, the full set of our nine Paper submissions, then the details of the Panel (with six potential contributions): PAPER SUBMISSIONS Mira Bekar – Co-constructing the social and interactive self in online text-based chats [abstract] Magdalena De Stefani — Reflexivity in action research: exploring the role of narratives [abstract] Richard Fay and Leah Davcheva – Being Jewish in Bulgaria: […]
Read moreIn an article titled ‘Empowerment as a Pedagogy of Possibility‘ (Language Arts 64 4), Roger Simon makes the following observation: As an introduction to, preparation for, and legitimation of particular forms of social life, education always presupposes a vision of the future. In this respect, a curriculum and its supporting pedagogy are a vision of our own dreams of ourselves, […]
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