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{Call for Chapters} “Ethical deliberations in multilingual education: Power relations in learning communities.

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Link Call for chapter proposals for the edited volume, “Ethical deliberations in multilingual education: Power relations in learning communities.” https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kVx9YoHGMjmq4JAiwA6bV3ot_LnCsvYgNNysFsrJxfs/edit?usp=sharing CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS  Proposal Abstract Submission Deadline: January  30, 2021 Ethical deliberations in multilingual education:  Power relations in learning communities  Editors Theresa Austin,University of Massachusetts, Amherst Hatice Çelebi,University of Massachusetts, Amherst  Introduction The teaching of world languages across national […]

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How to teach TESOL ethically in an English-dominant world

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Link: How to teach TESOL ethically in an English-dominant world TESOL and social justice One of the thrusts of my research has been a critical examination of the social consequences of the global spread of English. In my book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice, for example, I argue that “Englishization” engenders an external orientation to development. Knowledge produced and disseminated through […]

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A recent ‘informed consent’ scandal

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Thanks to Sarah Darley-Nolan for bringing this very interesting BBC radio 4 programme to my notice. I thought it would be good to share it here. Informed consent Facebook has been under fire for running a controversial ’emotion manipulation’ study on 689,003 Facebook users. The experiment, to find out whether emotions were contagious on the social network, involved minor changes […]

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ICQI 2014: Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Research

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I am delighted to have had my abstract entitled “Walking the Talk: Tensions between Analysis and Advocacy in Ethical Inquiry” accepted for the Tenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in Champaign-Urbana in May 2014. Whilst I am attempting to synthesize analysis and advocacy in my thesis, giving this paper allows me to play with the ‘partial, moral and political ways of knowing’ that my […]

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When Ethics become more than a paper pushing exercise….

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After completing my panel in October I have been working through completing the ethics forms for my PhD study. Originally it was seen to have a low risk level. However, from my panel feedback and discussions with colleagues in the department it appears that from the wording on the ethics form my study is actually medium.The primary reason for this? […]

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

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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 […]

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Encryption and data management

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There’s been a big move towards getting any hardware (laptops, USBs, hard drives) to get encrypted by IT services regardless if the device is university owned or it’s your own Commodore 64. Is it necessary?  And do we have to?  The short answer is “Yes”. Whether you’re first in line or dragged kicking and screaming, it’s a requirement now for […]

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