{"id":6864,"date":"2014-11-22T08:17:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T08:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=6864"},"modified":"2014-12-10T17:06:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T17:06:22","slug":"6864","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=6864","title":{"rendered":"Paper accepted for presentation at the Liberal Arts International Conference (LAIC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m very pleased that my proposal for a paper has been accepted for presentation at the Liberal Arts International Conference (LAIC) at Texas A&M University in Qatar (Feb 2015). According to the acceptance notification, “the conference committee received over 200 abstracts and proposals, and (…) had a very\u00a0competitive\u00a029%\u00a0acceptance\u00a0rate”.<\/p>\n

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Conference theme:<\/p>\n

LOOKING FORWAD, LOOKING BACK: Transnational Perspectives on Globalisation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

My paper proposal:<\/p>\n

A Cultural Other in Transnational Education:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Impact of Globalisation on Student\/Teacher Identities<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The presentation concerns the changing perceptions and interpretations of cultural identity in a pre-university English-language academic institution in Qatar where globalisation is traversing the once-impermeable boundaries of neatly delineated, \u2018national\u2019, higher education. The paper is based on my continuing doctoral research.<\/p>\n

In this paper, I will look at the concept of a cultural other in the context of teaching English to Qatari students enrolled in a foundation programme preparing them to enter English-language universities at home and abroad.<\/p>\n

The presentation will consist of the following parts:<\/p>\n

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  1. Definition of terms (cultural other, transnational education, globalisation, cultural\u00a0identity);\u00a0\u00a0context and methodology<\/li>\n
  2. Traditional vs. contemporary narratives of teacher\/student identity (native vs. non-native teachers of English; English teachers as \u2018post-modern paladins\u2019; foreign students abroad vs. local students in a foreign institution at home)<\/li>\n
  3. Who is a \u2018cultural other\u2019? Emerging discourse\/s of \u2018otherness\u2019 (foreign teacher as a cultural other; otherised local students from non-local backgrounds)<\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0Conclusions (burgeoning \u2018small\u2019 classroom culture\/s with new power relations and re-defined identities)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Magda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m very pleased that my proposal for a paper has been accepted for presentation at the Liberal Arts International Conference (LAIC) at Texas A&M University in Qatar (Feb 2015). According to the acceptance notification, “the conference committee received over 200 abstracts and proposals, and (…) had a very\u00a0competitive\u00a029%\u00a0acceptance\u00a0rate”.   Conference theme: LOOKING FORWAD, LOOKING BACK: Transnational Perspectives on Globalisation My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s865eh-6864","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\/6864"}],"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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6929,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions\/6929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}