{"id":2100,"date":"2011-05-03T16:06:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T15:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechandtesol.info\/phd\/?p=2100"},"modified":"2014-11-21T17:02:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T17:02:02","slug":"stasis-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=2100","title":{"rendered":"Stasis and change&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The paper I am presenting at the LTE event in early June is (tentatively) titled <em>Stasis and Change: conceptualising ELT as a complex dynamical system<\/em>. The paper was originally written for\u00a0the <a title=\"Conference website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jyu.fi\/en\/congress\/newdynamics2011\" target=\"_blank\">New Dynamics<\/a> conference in Finland, where it will be presented as &#8216;<em>Places for Pedagogy, Spaces for Innovation: the emergence of eclectic pedagogy in ELT settings<\/em>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>The paper reports on my ongoing study in a language school in Greece. What I am trying to do in this study is to record the beliefs, attitudes and practices at the school, \u00a0and synthesise them in a complex dynamical system. A complex dynamical system, simply put, is a set of interconnected entities that display some sort of collective behaviour, which we cannot not directly attribute to any one constituent.<\/p>\n<p>In this paper, I will attempt to demonstrate that such a conceptualisation is descriptively powerful, and that it can help us understand why certain pedagogical patterns emerge. Using examples from the data, I will show why the language school seems, at times, to resist communicative influences, and why other aspects of teaching and learning seem poised for the emergence of eclectic pedagogy.<\/p>\n<p>Feedback is very welcome, especially with regard to the persuasiveness of the account.<\/p>\n<p>Achilleas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paper I am presenting at the LTE event in early June is (tentatively) titled Stasis and Change: conceptualising ELT as a complex dynamical system. The paper was originally written for\u00a0the New Dynamics conference in Finland, where it will be presented as &#8216;Places for Pedagogy, Spaces for Innovation: the emergence of eclectic pedagogy in ELT settings&#8216;. The paper reports on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p865eh-xS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6850,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/6850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}