Category: Publications (All)
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Describing a school as a complex system
In this extract from my book, A Language School as a Complex System, I discuss why it makes sense to describe a school through the lens of a complex systems theory, and I outline some advantages that such a perspective brings.
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Complexity theory in language education – What is it?
This extract from my book ‘A Language School as a Complex System’ discusses what complex systems are and why it they are useful when thinking about language education.
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Disrupting Geographical Borders in Language Education
The three next chapters in Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, problematise how the changing composition of language classroom impacts the professional roles and identities of teachers. These chapters look into superdiverse urban settings, explore the identity construction of teachers, and describe a teacher education programme that prepares language educators to help refugee-background learners.
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Transgressing Curricular Borderlines in Language Education
The first chapters of the Challenging Boundaries in Language Education have been submitted. The focus of both these contributions, by Katerina Vourdanou and Dietmar Tatzl, is on combining language education with other curricular objectives.
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Complex Systems Theory as a Shared Discourse Space for TESOL
In June 2018, I (Achilleas Kostoulas), Juup Stelma, Sarah Mercer, Lynne Cameron and Susan Dawson published an article on Complex Systems Theory and TESOL. This post discusses the article and presents some background information.
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A Language School as a Complex System: Why did I write this book?
In this extract from ‘A Language School as a Complex System’, I explain what the purpose of the book is, and what contribution I hope to make. I also write about a more personal reason that motivated the writing of the book.
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Language Teacher Psychology
Some thoughts about the recently published volume that Sarah Mercer and I co-edited.
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Challenging Boundaries in Language Education
A few days ago, I signed the contract for a forthcoming volume which I am editing. The new book, entitled Challenging Boundaries in Language Education, will be published by Springer within the Second Language Learning and Teaching series, and we are aiming for a publication date towards the end of 2019. Read about all about…
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A Language School as a Complex System
This is a post announcing the publication of my latest book, A Language School as a Complex System. In the post you can find a very brief summary of what the book is about, and what it aims to do.