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.

RT @alexanderding: Bee Bond & I are giving a hybrid talk ‘Language & Legitimation in Higher Education’ Wednesday, November 20 5-7pm at the….

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

RT @IanBruc19234684: Some interesting thoughts in this article. Knowing Neoliberalism: Social Epistemology: Vol 33 , No 4 - Get Access htt….

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.

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

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.

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’.

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.

Only a cog in a machine?: Reappraising institutionalized EAP teacher identities in a transnational context this is really interesting.

RT @JaynePe50508758: Call for Papers: Special Issue on Transparency in Assessment!.Submit your abstracts by Oct 2, 2024, for the @ReviewofE….

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.

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).

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.

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.

tell me this is a parody. .

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.

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.

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

'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.