Richard sent me this link: http://www.vitae.ac.uk/CMS/files/upload/Vitae-Researcher-Development-Framework.pdf Looking around, this seems like a huge initiative. 15 million pounds of funding from 2007 to 2012. They are funded by the research councils … but their website and outward presentation looks very corporate. They have a two day conference at the Midland hotel in Manchester in early September, but the rates are about […]
Read moreMair, M., Watson, P., Elsey, C., & P. V. Smith (forthcoming). War-making and sense-making: some technical reflections on an instance of ‘friendly fire, forthcoming in British Journal of Sociology (details to follow). — This article is the further development an earlier conference paper [ppt]
Read moreSee my separate new thread re the overall thinking for NM2012 in Paris: next May-time http://edtechandtesol.info/phd/?p=2638 The purpose of this new thread is to focus on the second area (in that overall thinking), that of a Panel offered by the LTE reseachers and their associates. This is where my thinking had reached previously: My thinking so far – but not […]
Read moreSee below a copy of the earlier posting for this conference. As Narrative Matters is a key narrative conference (which comes around every two years) and as it will be in Europe for a change (not north America), it seems to me to provide a perfect opoortunity for all those of us with a narrative bent to take part and […]
Read moreAnnouncement: English Language Teacher Education and Development (ELTED) Volume 13 is now available online. English Language Teacher Education and Development (ELTED) – ISSN 1365-3741 – is an annual peer-reviewed journal for the worldwide ELT community which is produced by the English Language Learning, Teaching and Assessment (ELLTA) Research Group of the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick. It seeks […]
Read morehttp://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/about/ The Thesis Whisperer is a ‘newspaper’ dedicated to the topic of doing a thesis. Newspapers need more than one journalist so we are looking for collaborators! Would you like to write for the Whisperer? Here’s what we want to do: We want to be concise. PhD students have to do a lot of reading so no posts will be […]
Read moreI was wondering if people might weigh in on this question that’s puzzling me. I was recently reading a PhD thesis awarded by a Greek university. Let’s say that the title was something like, ‘Teaching English as a Second Language in Manchester from 1917 to 1967‘. The bulk of the thesis focuses on historical aspects of TESOL, as it contains […]
Read moreThe latest issue of Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching (Volume 5, Issue 2, 2011) is a special issue, edited by Turid Trebbi, which brings together papers from the 10th Nordic Conference on Language Learner Autonomy in the Foreign Language Classroom (2009, Bergen, Norway). The Table of Contents is accessible here: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rill20/5/2 The papers included are as follows: Reinforcing the […]
Read moreAfter lots and lots of procrastination, I finally have a workable version of my webpage online: https://sites.google.com/site/achkostoulas/. I expect that I will eventually populate it with abstracts, papers and presentations that are already scattered across the web, and I may be creating versions in other languages as well. But I am reasonably happy with it for the time being. For the […]
Read moreMe-Search and Re-Search A Guide for Writing Scholarly Personal Narrative Manuscripts Robert Nash, The University of Vermont DeMethra LaSha Bradley, University of Vermont Published 2011 From the Foreword: Robert and DeMethra’s book, Me-Searching and Re-Search, has caught my fancy in a number of ways. The book title cleverly captures what SPN is all about—it is about self narratives (the […]
Read moreAndrea and I were both taking our first steps into the world of ELT, she as a nine-year old pupil and I as a teacher freshly out of what passes as ITE in Greece. I’d noticed her on occasion, waiting alone at the lobby, generally keeping to herself, sometimes reading a list of irregular verbs or, just as often, looking […]
Read more…. at the risk of us becoming overblogged / blogged out, I am copying here Eljee’s recent message to all PGR students about the PGR blog which has similar but also different functions from this our LTE Doctoral Community Blog. (RF) I’d like to invite you to take a look at the new PGR Blog! http://pgrschoolofeducation.wordpress.com/ This is an online […]
Read moreJuup and I have been teaching and researching together in the area of Developing Researcher Competece (DRC) for some years now – for example see the earlier ‘In the Raw’ posting about the work – on which Juup had led – regarding DRC and intentionality as set in an ecological psychological perspective. The DRC course we co-tutor makes substatial use of reflection as […]
Read moreHow does this sound to you Mariam and Viv? http://chronicle.com/article/Replacing-the-Transience-of/45530/
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