Alex Ding
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Not active here anymore. Prof of English for Academic Purposes Interests: scholarship, social theory, practitioners, agency, EAP, politics of HE, Bourdieu.
Joined February 2010
It appears its finally out now. Working with all the chapter authors has been a great pleasure, especially my co-editor @LaetitiaM19 - this volume should be of interest to #tleap @baleap
https://t.co/KLQW2h8vlP I co-edited this volume with @LaetitiaM19. We wrote a chapter on socio-analysis of the field of EAP. Some excellent contributions from around the world by @BeeBond1 @Namali_T @tanzela @MichelleJoube18 @PhDgirlSA @IwonaPringle @sarahtee7
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Bee Bond & I are giving a hybrid talk ‘Language & Legitimation in Higher Education’ Wednesday, November 20 5-7pm at the University of Leeds This is our joint inaugural public lecture to mark our promotion to Professor of EAP details in the link #tleap
eventbrite.co.uk
We invite you to join us for our joint inaugural lecture entitled "Language and Legitimation in Higher Education"
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Bee Bond & I are giving a hybrid talk ‘Language & Legitimation in Higher Education’ Wednesday, November 20 5-7pm at the University of Leeds This is our joint inaugural public lecture to mark our promotion to Professor of EAP details in the link #tleap
eventbrite.co.uk
We invite you to join us for our joint inaugural lecture entitled "Language and Legitimation in Higher Education"
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Some interesting thoughts in this article. Knowing Neoliberalism: Social Epistemology: Vol 33 , No 4 - Get Access
tandfonline.com
Critical accounts over the past years have focused on neoliberalism as a subject of knowledge; there has been a recently growing interest in neoliberalism as an object of knowledge. This article co...
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https://t.co/MfyWFQqdRN It would be interesting to know the socio-economic backgrounds of academic staff and how many had been educated in private schools. And whether there are disciplinary differences in staff privately educated
theguardian.com
Expanding access to Oxbridge and other leading institutions would boost social mobility, say authors of new book
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4/4 It was a pleasure to write this with Laetitia and she was very much the architect of this book. I’m glad I could contribute to it. It was also uncomfortable to write as we came to arguments and conclusions that we think will provoke. Below is a tiny extract
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3/4 We have tried to discuss social justice and Higher Education by considering the role of language ontology, of ethics and social theory, and of pedagogy. We use social semiotics and Bourdieu's field theory to address these issues.
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2/4 It’s an uncomfortable read and as we write ‘the opinion and judgments expressed in the volume might go against readers’ positions, or unquestioned thoughts’.
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1/4 @LaetitiaM19 and I have just submitted our manuscript to Palgrave and our book ' Recovering Language in Higher Education: Social Justice, Ethics and Practices' should be published in the next few months.
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Only a cog in a machine?: Reappraising institutionalized EAP teacher identities in a transnational context https://t.co/EkHaG6T2GV this is really interesting
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Transparency in Assessment! Submit your abstracts by Oct 2, 2024, for the @ReviewofEdu special issue on #AssessmentTransparency. Open to researchers, teaching fellows, practitioners, professional staff & regulators.
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4/4 So, yes, there is a dysfunctional relationship and one where practitioners remain a rich source of data for continued calls to help them.
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3/4 Moreover, often with a somewhat condescending tone, practitioners are constantly in need of researcher help and intervention (which can then be used as rich data for yet more publications)
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2/4 There are significant profits (for researchers) to continue this call, publishing articles (for other researchers in the main), plenaries, esteem etc... regardless of any impact their work might have.
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1/4 Who needs who? The number of publications by researchers in TESOL and Applied Linguistics who repeat ad nauseum their earnest calls and desires to bridge the gap between researchers and practitioners is getting very tired. To the point where one could ask who really needs who
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2/2 This professor travels frequently for keynotes and conferences, has sat on numerous editorial boards and has other markers of symbolical capital. Yet, I can't think of one single outstanding contribution they have made to the field.
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1/2 I am currently writing about academic ethos. As part of researching for this chapter, out of curiosity I looked up a prolific professor of applied linguistics. In 2023 they published 47 papers, so far, in 2024, they have published 26. Only 1 is single-authored.
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https://t.co/qLd6mED2qv Mark Erickson, Paul Hanna & Carl Walker (2021) The UK higher education senior management survey: a statactivist response to managerialist governance, Studies in Higher Education, 46:11, 2134-2151, DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2020.1712693
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'Today we publish a manifesto, tomorrow we pull the rug from under a colleague in the hope of gaining funds for a research assistant. Divide and conquer works because we all join in.' The Academic Manifesto: From an Occupied to a Public University.
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'Today we publish a manifesto, tomorrow we pull the rug from under a colleague in the hope of gaining funds for a research assistant. Divide and conquer works because we all join in.' The Academic Manifesto: From an Occupied to a Public University.
link.springer.com
Minerva - Universities are occupied by management, a regime obsessed with ‘accountability’ through measurement, increased competition, efficiency, ‘excellence’, and...
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