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Saharan Narratives: transformative intercultural education experiences

24/04/2011 Richard Fay Leave a comment

Richard Fay and Elena Gomez (see Research Associates page) are planning an article on the University of Cordoba’s Sahara Visit by trainee teachers: ‘Narratives of Teacher Development through Encounters with Otherness: from Cordoba to the Sahara, and back again’. Its main goal will be to explore the intercultural experience from an educational viewpoint of the 15 teacher students from the Faculty of Education (at Cordoba) […]

Conference/article plans

Reflexivity in HE / ethnography- book reviews

17/04/2011 Richard Fay Leave a comment

Some time back, Paul Smith forwarded these reviews/alerts to me from a colleague in one of the online groups he belongs to (Academic Litercy/ies?): Turner, Joan (2011) Language in the Academy: Cultural Reflexivity and Intercultural Dynamics. Bristol , Buffalo, Toronto: Multilinguial Matters Available in paperback and hardback [The book is part of the Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education series]. […]

Miscellaneous news etc

On review…

15/04/2011 Achilleas Kostoulas 5 comments

Some of you know that I am in the editorial team of the Journal of English as an International Language. Despite the fancy title of ‘Editor’ (a gross case of ‘title inflation’), all I really do is forward papers to people from a pool of reviewers, or occassionally review them myself if the topic is within my sphere of expertise. […]

Getting published

Warwick conference submission

15/04/2011 One comment

Lou writes: Just submitted an abstract for the International Postgraduate Conference at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, on 28th and 29th June. I’m planning to go to the conference whether my paper is accepted or not – but fingers crossed. The paper is based on my 2008 MA TESOL dissertation, on which my PhD is based, so I […]

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A BAAL Colloquium on DRM ….

14/04/2011 Richard Fay 3 comments

Doing Research Multilingually (DRM) is the focus of a BAAL Colloquium proposal that has been accepted for the September 2011 BAAL conference (hosted in Bristol by the University of the West of England). The colloquium is framed by the following text: Social researchers in differing applied settings have questioned the apparent neglect of the challenges raised by researching in contexts of […]

Researching multilingually

Article submission

12/04/2011 2 comments

I’ve just submitted an article to Gender and Education based on a content analysis I did last year as part of the MSc Educational Research. The article looks at the representation of gender relations in the online version of New Headway, and the ways in which theorisations of gender, identity and language learning may inform, and be informed by, the emergent postmethod movement […]

Suresh Canagarajah's blog

11/04/2011 Achilleas Kostoulas 4 comments

Some of you might be interested in the blog that Suresh Canagarajah kept during his tenure as chief editor of TESOL Quarterly. There are a lot of useful insights there on topics such as democratising the exchange of scholarly information, successful and less-successful publication strategies (make sure you don’t cc private emails to the editor), dealing with rejection letters (apparently […]

Getting published

Sangani and Stelma paper

11/04/2011 Juup Stelma 5 comments

On the theme of getting published, Abdul-Hamid Sangani (ex-PhD see addition to former students list) and myself submitted the following article to Professional Development in Education: Sangani, A-H. and Stelma, J. (draft). Reflective practice in developing world contexts: a general review of literature and a specific consideration of an Iranian experience. Submitted to: Professional Development in Education. It was accepted […]

BERA acceptance

09/04/2011 Richard Fay One comment

This proposal submitted by Juup, has now been accepted … Stelma, J. and Fay, R. (2011). Reflective construction of (conflicting) intentionalities: an ecological perspective on Masters-level research education. Paper (to be) presented at BERA 2011 Annual Conference, 6th – 8th September, 2011, hosted by the Institute of Education, London.

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SoE conference funding

08/04/2011 4 comments

Lou writes: I found out today that I’ve been awarded School of Education funding to partially cover the New Dynamics conference in Finland. Splendid news! And I’ve finally set up my website and my PhD blog – please take a look: https://sites.google.com/site/ltharvey http://louharvey-phd.blogspot.com

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Methods @ Manchester

07/04/2011 Richard Fay One comment

Do you all know about this one? Methods @ manchester Highlighting the depth and breadth of methodological expertise in the social sciences at the University of Manchester. Promoting and facilitating methodological excellence, innovation and inter-disciplinarity. http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/

Researcher development etc

Congratulations to Tanya and Eljee…

07/04/2011 Richard Fay 2 comments

… on their succcessful bid for SoE funding to partially support their QI2011 paper-giving trip in late May (papers about which we may well hear more at our June 3rd LTE Conference ….

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Exploring Learning, Identity and Power through Life History and Narrative Research

06/04/2011 Richard Fay Leave a comment

Exploring Learning, Identity and Power through Life History and Narrative Research Edited by Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Penelope Harnett Exploring Learning, Identity and Power through Life History and Narrative Research responds to these questions with examples from diverse educational and social contexts. The book brings together a collection of writing by different authors who use a narrative/life history approach to explore the […]

Narrative Matters, Natters and Beyond

The Doctoral Experience

31/03/2011 Richard Fay Leave a comment

The Doctorate: international stories of the UK experience Author/Producer Sheila Trahar/ESCalate Contributors Sham Juhari (University of Birmingham) Kam Ping Leung Kathy (City University of Hong Kong) Tzu-Bin Lin (National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Georgina Yaa Oduro (University of Cape Coast, Ghana) Kai Ren (University of Bristol) Cheryl Rounsaville (University of Nottingham) Narina A. Samah (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia) […]

Miscellaneous news etc

Julian @ TESOL – presenting his new reflexivity book

27/03/2011 Richard Fay Leave a comment

Julian writes: You could check out the script of my TESOL Convention presentation, and the accompanying powerpoint expertly created by Eljee Javier, via the edgeblog link: Even more fun, however, especially if you are interested in traditional folkloric responses to the affordances of international travel, is this one:

Reflexivity_Narrativity

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