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Call for papers: ‘Difference’, an international, interdisciplinary Post Graduate conference, Glasgow, May 2016

22/01/2016 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

The College of Arts and Humanities, University of Glasgow, invites proposals for papers on the theme of ‘Difference’ for its fifth international, interdisciplinary conference. The conference will be held on the 24th-25th May 2016. For full details, please see Call for papers.Postgraduates are invited to submit abstracts of 200-300 words via email to artspgconference16@gmail.com by the 5th February. (Please note this extended deadline) Any […]

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Training in Intercultural Competence from ELC (European language Competence)

01/12/2014 Susan Dawson Leave a comment

GENDER – POWER – HIERARCHY: CRITICAL ISSUES IN INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS Adopting a concept of intercultural training in which practical communication plays the central role means “focussing less on broad constructs like ‘culture’ and more on the everyday concrete actions through which culture is produced”.1 At the heart of such training is the interculturally appropriate use of language, in our case […]

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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 […]