Spring Term 2011
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Spring term 2010
The last decade has seen a significant revitalisation and reconceptualisation of comparative international research in the UK, and internationally. The research basis and focus has strengthened, many new national societies have been formed, membership of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) has grown, and innovation has flourished in the field. ICS has played a key role in this process through the involvement of numerous Centre colleagues and research students in leadership roles for BAICE and through our collective contribution to the reconceptualisation of the field in theoretical, methodological, substantive and organisational ways. The extent of this growth and impact can be seen in the October 2009 (Vol 35:5) Special Issue of the Oxford Review of Education that is devoted to a critical analysis of the development and current state of the ‘disciplines of education’, including comparative and international, philosophy, history, sociology and the economics of education.
Research projects and conferences
Recent and planned Centre activities reflect many of the ways in which ICS has contributed to the reconceptualisation of our field, and include work that is having a recognised impact at the national and international levels. In September 2009, the EdQual Research Programme Consortium (RPC) held a Symposium titled Education Quality: policies and practice for progressing social justice at the UKFIET International Conference on Education and Development, at the University of Oxford. This included two papers authored by members of ICS, including Angeline Barrett, Leon Tikly & Michèle Smith. Partners travelled from four partner countries in Africa for the event. Papers presented at the conference are available to download at: www.edqual.org/publications/.
Leon Tikly gave two invited keynote presentations in November. He presented on ‘Challenges and opportunities in South African Education in the Global Era’ at a conference on ‘Closing the gap in education’ at the Monash University, South African campus and on ‘Key issues in diversity and voice in European Education’ at a conference on Inclusion and Diversity held at the British Council in Berlin. Leon will also be presenting at the conference of the Comparative and International Education Society in Chicago in March 2010 on ‘Re-imagining Education Quality in Low Income Countries: Towards a Social Justice and Capabilities Approach.’ He has also been invited to present his work to a special pre-conference workshop of the gender forum at the conference and to Faculty at the University of Minnesota after the conference.
Influencing policy is a key communications objective of ICS and EdQual. Angeline Barrett represented the Centre and EdQual at consultation meetings held by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to support its formulation of a new Education Strategy and EdQual submitted a short paper as a contribution to the process. Leon Tikly collaborated with a partner in the University of Cape Coast, George Oduro, when consulted by the Ghanaian Ministry of Education and Sports on its new Education Sector Plan (2010-2020). Angeline and Leon were also invited to participate in a forum on teacher education in Africa organised by the Open University in London in November. Angeline acted as a respondent to the main paper.
Building upon a presentation made directly to Ministers of Education by Michael Crossley at the 17th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM) in Malaysia over the summer, Michael was invited to deliver a keynote address for the Papua New Guinea National Department of Education/University of Goroka Conference in September. This drew upon the work of the Education in Small States Group in ICS (see www.smallstates.net) dealing with tensions between ‘Global Goals, National Priorities and Education Reform: Learning from the Small States Experience’. Returning to Papua New Guinea for the first time in 20 years, Michael’s arrival at the airport was marked by a dramatic reception from Sing Sing groups in full traditional dress. While in Papua New Guinea, Michael was able to run a publishing workshop for university staff, to provide dissertation support for EdD Researcher Guy le Fanu, and to trek into the bush and villages of the Eastern Highlands to visit Guy’s fieldwork schools. This work, combined with that of other former doctoral researchers from ICS is being well received by Ministers and policy makers throughout Papua New Guinea.
On the small states front, Michael continues to lead a Commonwealth Funded team of researchers, drawn from ICS and the International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO/Paris), working on educational planning and research priorities for Commonwealth small states. This team is bringing young doctoral researchers together with senior researchers in the field, and is pleased to welcome Terra Sprague here in the GSoE as a new Research Fellow. This research is designed to help inform future work on education within the small states of the Commonwealth and to shape Pan-Commonwealth consultations throughout 2010-2011.
Within the UK, Elizabeth McNess continues to work on the Transition Project with Rosamund Sutherland, Wan Ching Yee and Rich Morris (Geography). A final report of findings will be published in January. During the autumn term, Marilyn Osborn was in Canada as a member of the adjudication committee on Major Collaborative Research Initiatives for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She also acted as external examiner on a PhD jury at the University of Toulouse in France and was in Paris for the international advisory group of the French journal Revue International de Pedagogie.
Publications
In addition to a piece by Michael Crossley and Keith Watson in the October Oxford Review of Education noted above, Michael has had a chapter on “Rethinking Context in Comparative Education” published in the new 2 Volume International Handbook of Comparative Education (2009:Springer), and Michael, Mark Bray and Steve Packer have an article on their small states research in the December 2009 (Vol.98:6) issue of The Round Table – the longest running UK based journal of international affairs. Angeline Barrett and Leon Tikly had a chapter published in a published book of proceedings from the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) 2008 conference: Barrett, A.M. & Tikly, L. & (2009) Education Quality: Research Priorities and Approaches in the Global Era, in D. Mattheou (Ed) Changing Educational Landscape: Educational Practices, Schooling Systems and Higher Education – A comparative perspective (Amsterdam: Springer), pp. 34-56. And an article on ‘Classroom Assessment practice in Policy Context (England and France)’ is about to be published by Marilyn Osborn and Maroussia Raveaud in the International Encyclopaedia of Education (Volume on Assessment). As Editor of Comparative Education, Michael also spend time in November working with colleagues at the University of Hong Kong who are planning a Special Issue of the journal on the methodological challenges faced in conducting educational research in Confucian Heritage Cultures. Finally, the Autumn Term saw two well received volumes of the ICS book series Bristol Papers in Education: Comparative and International Studies, formally launched with seminars presented by Professor Birgit Brock-Unte (University of Oslo) and Professor David Stephens (University of Brighton).
Postgraduate and Research Students
ICS welcomed a new international group of Education Leadership, Policy and Development (ELPD) Masters students to the GSoE in October; November saw the return of Michele Mills from her PhD fieldwork in Trinidad and Tobago – and the departure of Mindy Colin for fieldwork in Mauritius; and December saw the return of Guy Le Fanu to Bristol from Papua New Guinea. We wish them all well with their ongoing studies.
Forthcoming Events
A full programme of ICS Seminars is planned for the Spring Term (2010) and details will be posted elsewhere when confirmed. This will include presentations from Chris Simms from the City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development (London), Guy le Fanu (EdD Programme) and Fredrick Kamunde/Lizzi Milligan (MPhil/PhD Programme). Further afield, Michael has been invited to present a London research seminar on his work to the International Committee of the University Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) in May, and to run a Bristol event on the small states research for Valerie Davey and the Council for Education in the Commonwealth. Watch this space for details. Finally, ICS is very pleased to appoint doctoral researcher, Lizzi Milligan as our new Research Seminar Coordinator.
Summer Term 2009
Farewell
Dr Willie Ako (First Secretary to the Minister for Planning in Papua New Guinea) has been working in ICS for three months, as a Commonwealth Visiting Professional Fellow. Working with Michael Crossley and Dr Jane Fitzpatrick (UWE), he has been writing up a report of their UNDP/British High Commission sponsored participatory research on combining education and health initiatives for the prevention of Malaria in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. This is work that has directly contributed to a decrease in the incidence of deaths through child malaria in Batri Village, PNG. During the Fellowship, Dr Ako also delivered research seminars on this work in the GSoE and at UWE; participated in meetings for the launch of the 2009 Global Monitoring Report on Education, and at the Commonwealth Secretariat, at Marlborough House in London; visited UNESCO/IIEP, in Paris; contributed to ongoing research for the forthcoming Commonwealth Education Ministers’ Conference; and generously supported the research of other Bristol doctoral students. We all wish Willie well when he returns to PNG in April.
Research projects
As part of a co-ordinated ICS strategy, centre members are continuing to prioritise work on the development of new externally funded research bids. Elizabeth McNess has also been invited to join a Norwegian led Comparative Research Programme, which includes countries from the West Balkans, looking at national approaches to inclusive education. This will take Elizabeth to Zagreb, in May, to deliver an open lecture, and lead workshops and seminars designed to support ongoing research and strengthen research capacity. Leading a team of Bristol (Dave Bainton, Mindy Colin and Steve Packer) and UNESCO/IIEP colleagues (Mark Bray, David Atchoarena and Michaela Martin), Michael Crossley and ICS are funded by the Commonwealth to study educational research and planning priorities for small states. In June, this will involve a lead presentation to the 17th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ongoing research will then lead to a book contract and related journal articles. Work is also continuing with Nkobi Pansiri, now back home in Botswana, to develop externally funded research that will maintain collaboration between the Universities of Bristol and Botswana.
EdQual
EdQual is entering an exciting time in its five year lifespan, with the five large scale projects beginning to produce and disseminate some exciting research findings. One such example was a highly successful conference in Accra, Ghana that was jointed hosted between Dr. George Oduro (EdQual Ghana co-coordinator) and Dr. Leslie Casely-Hayford (from RECOUP, a second DFID funded RPC working in Ghana). Held at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Ghana, the conference disseminated interim findings to a broad audience, including headteachers, ministry of Education managers and policy makers, international organisations and academics.
The vital role of action researcher practitioners in EdQual’s work was celebrated at two headteacher workshops held in march. The two workshops were held to share findings and research experiences amongst the researchers – one in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and one in Cape Coast, Ghana.
Dialogue with international policy making also continues, with Leon Tikly attending a DFID Education Advisers Retreat (9th–13th March 2009, Tamil Nadu, India). This retreat explored ways and means of measuring and improving basic education quality, with the view to influencing future DFID policy. Closer to home, the GSoE was fortunate to host two visiting researchers during the spring term – Lydia Osei Amankwah (University Cape Coast, Ghana), and Patrick Kiliku (University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) were in Bristol conducting data analysis for the Language and Literacy project.
For more information on any of these events, please have a look at www.edqual.org
Publications
Elizabeth McNess and Marilyn Osborn have each had articles published in a Special Issue of the Revue international d’éducation de Sèvres on comparative perspectives of values as expressed in classroom practices. Gabrielle Hogan-Brun has had two of her books reprinted for the third time. These are: Minority Languages in Europe, Frameworks-Status-Prospects (Palgrave); and Language Policies and Practices in the Baltic States (Tallin University Press). She has also published a paper (with T Bulajeva) on Language and Education Orientations in Lithuania, Post-EU Accession (International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism). ICS is very pleased to see two new volumes, published this term, of the Bristol Papers in Education: Comparative and International Studies (Symposium Books, Oxford). The first is edited by Profs Birgit Brock-Utne and Ingse Skattum (Oslo University), Languages and Education in Africa. The second is Higher Education and International Capacity Building, edited by Prof David Stephens (Brighton University). Look out for book launch events in the near future! Pat O’Brien can order limited copies, at a special launch offer of £16 (half-price), if you contact her directly.
Conferences and events
The last few months have been a busy time for conferences. Leon Tikly and Dave Bainton co-ordinated a panel discussion on quality education at this year’s GMR Colloquium: Overcoming Inequality, Why Governance Matters (26th January 2009, The Institute of Education); Leon Tikly attended the ‘The Politics of Comparison’ Conference – the 53rd Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society 22nd- 26th March 2009, Charleston, South Carolina); Michele Smith and Dave Bainton presented a paper at the Young Lives conference, ‘Focus on Children: Breaking the Poverty Cycle’ (Oxford, 25th-27th March 2009).
As part of the CCEM research, Mindy Colin represented the small states team at the 50th Anniversary Conference for Commonwealth Co-operation in Education, held at the University of Oxford, from 31st March to 1st April. Gabrielle Hogan-Brun has been elected as BAAL Representative to the Committee for Linguistics Education (CLIE) and Marilyn Osborn will attend a major Collaborative Research Initiatives Adjudication Committee Meeting, in Canada, for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Forthcoming events
Closer to home, we are pleased to run a second BAICE sponsored Universities of Bristol and Birmingham MEd (ELPD) Dissertation Research Writing Workshop – to be held in Birmingham this year, on 28 May. ICS itself is hosting an ‘Education in China’ half-day seminar led by MEd students on 12 May, and the Summer Term Seminar Programme will include what should be an exciting and challenging presentation on ‘teaching and learning styles in low income countries’ by Gerard Guthrie, formerly Professor of Education at Goroka University, Papua New Guinea.
Spring Term 2009
The Autumn Term of 2008 saw a wide range of activities in ICS and the strengthening of ongoing links with EdQual research and personnel. These developments also support ICS initiatives designed to relate our research to new course developments in the Educational Leadership, Policy and Development (ELPD) Masters pathway, and at the taught Doctorate (EdD) levels. We welcomed Mindy Colin from Mauritius as a new PhD researcher – with specialist interests in higher education in small states. Congratulations to Nkobi Pansiri who successfully completed his Doctorate on school retention and rural, ethnic minority cultures in Botswana. Nkobi has already had two papers accepted for publication from this dissertation, and, in November, he was invited to present a research seminar at the University of Glamorgan. We all wish him well when he returns to the University of Botswana in January.
Many ICS colleagues, including Nkobi, have been busy working on externally funded research bids in recent months, and James Wetz and Elizabeth McNess were recently awarded an extension to the Bristol Education Initiative Project, funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Michael Crossley took part in a School of Education review at Roehampton University in November, and Michael and Dame Pearlette Louisy (Governor General of Saint Lucia) have been invited to present a keynote paper at the 2009 UNESCO/IIEP Policy Forum on higher education in small states. Michael, leading a team comprised of ICS researchers, Steve Packer and IIEP personnel, has also won Commonwealth funding for research and the presentation of a briefing paper on education priorities for small states at the 17th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM) in Malaysia in June 2009.
Leon Tikly presented papers on EdQual research and education quality at the Comparative Education Society of Europe (CESE) Conference in Athens; the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management (CCEAM) Conference in Durban; the third Worldwide Forum for Comparative Education on Globalisation of Education in Beijing; and at the Asia-Pacific Conference on International Education for National Development and World Harmony in Shanghai. Two articles have been published by Leon and Hilary Dachi in the ‘Handbook of Social Justice and Education’, and the Teachers’ College Press book ‘South-South Co-operation and Transfer in Education and Development. Gabrielle Hogan-Brun presented invited papers at the International Language Policy Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, and the AILA World Congress on multiculturalism in Essen. She has a number of new publications on minority languages and education policy including ‘Minority Languages and Language Planning’ in the November 2008 issue of Current Issues in Language Planning.
This term, Dr Willy Ako joins ICS as a Commonwealth sponsored Visiting Fellow from Papua New Guinea. ICS is collaborating with Dr Ako and Dr Jane Fitzpatrick, from the University of the West of England, in research on education, health and malaria prevention in PNG. The Spring Term will see two new volumes of the Bristol Papers in Education: Comparative and International Studies released, and a full seminar programme organised in collaboration with Angeline Barrett and Dave Bainton. We also wish Angeline all the very best for her forthcoming maternity leave.
Autumn Term 2008
Congratulations
Towards the end of the summer term, ICS was delighted to see husband and wife, doctoral students, Hubert and Beatrice Fulford, from the Turks and Caicos Islands, graduated together on the same day in the Wills Memorial Building. Congratulations also go to Cristina Azaola who successfully defended her PhD thesis and Michele Mills who completed her PhD upgrade over the summer.
Recent visits and conference presentations
Over the summer, Angeline Barrett and Leon Tikly have been travelling in Africa, and elsewhere, on EdQual business; Gabrielle Hogan-Brun presented papers at the AILA World Congress in Essen, and led an Invited Symposium on Language Education Reforms at the Margins of Europe. Gabrielle also gave an Invited Keynote Paper at the University of Vilnius in September, and Michael Crossley and Terra Sprague (MEd student) participated in the BAICE Annual Conference at the University of Glasgow. Marilyn Osborn was in Canada to sit on an SSHRC research committee.
Recent events
The BAICE sponsored (Bristol/Birmingham) Dissertation Writing Workshop, held in the GSoE (opened by Elizabeth McNess and Sara Meadows) inspired Terra to present her paper in Glasgow – and BAICE confirmed their willingness to fund a follow-up meeting in 2010, at the University of Birmingham. A full report of this event will be posted on the ICS website.
Research project news
Dave Bainton’s ESRC-sponsored, post-doctoral research took him back to Ladakh for a month over the summer in the process of disseminating his work on education and indigenous knowledge and, in late-September, Nkobi Pansiri presented a paper based on his doctoral research at a national conference in Botswana. A visit to Bristol by Prof Mark Bray (Director of IIEP in Paris) facilitated planning, with Michael, on future research on education in small states in collaboration with Dame Pearlette Louisy (Governor General of Saint Lucia). On the small states front, ICS is also pleased to welcome new PhD student, Mindy Colin, who will be drawing upon her professional experience in Mauritius. ICS, in collaboration with UWE, has also won Commonwealth Professional Fellowship funding to bring Dr Willie Ako back to the GSoE in 2009, for three months, from Papua New Guinea.
New publications
Sheila Trahar edited and published a Special Issue of Compare on narrative approaches to comparative and international education. Ning Liu (former ICS doctoral student) also had two journal articles published, and Nkobi Pansiri has seen his first paper published in the International Journal of Educational Development. Gabrielle Hogan-Brun has had a new chapter published in an edited book on neo-colonial mentalities in contemporary education, and Michael has a lead paper in the July issue (vol 54) of the International Review of Education, and a piece in the recent Special Issue of Comparative Education on education in small states. Marilyn Osborn published two articles in a French encyclopedia of education Dictionnaire de l’Education and a review symposium in the British Journal of Educational Studies.
Forthcoming events
The ICS Seminar Programme for the autumn term got off to an early start with an enjoyable and stimulating presentation by Chan Sheng-Ju, from Taiwan, on governance reforms in higher education. This will be followed by Qing Gu (Nottingham) on international student experiences on 21 October; Steve Packer (formerly at the Global Monitoring Report, in Paris) on aid and education in small states (9 December); and other exciting names and topics yet to be confirmed.
Summer Term 2008
A marriage of two minds – husband and wife successfully negotiate their doctoral theses on the same day
It is unusual to have two doctor of education (EdD) oral examinations (vivas) in one day, but very rare indeed for the students to be husband and wife. This was the case when Hubert and Beatrice Fulford both successfully negotiated their EdD theses at the Graduate School of Education on 28th May 2008. They then graduated together on 16th July.
Hubert and Beatrice are citizens of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), a British overseas territory and archipelago in the Carribbean, with a population of approximately 22,000 people. Their research is informed by a wealth of professional experience gained from working in the small state of the TCI and it is hoped their research findings will be useful for other educationalists, particularly those working in similar small states world-wide. Hubert and Beatrice were supervised by Professor Michael Crossley and both are members of the Graduate School of Education’s small states research network.
Hubert, who is Executive Permanent Secretary for the government in the TCI, wrote his thesis on human resource management and staff appraisal models in small states and TCI. His study concluded that staff appraisal models can be empowering instruments in human resource development, cautioned against the uncritical international transfer of policies and practices, and highlighted the need to carefully tailor human resource management strategies to local cultural and contextual conditions.
Beatrice, who is Director of Education, Department of Education in the TCI, studied the factors impacting upon teacher recruitment and retention in small states, and the challenges they pose for education systems, with particular reference to the TCI. Her conclusions drew attention to the impact of global migration trends upon small states, to the strategic importance of continuing professional development and improved conditions of service for teachers, and to the benefits to be gained from locally grounded research into such issues.
Both Hubert and Beatrice hope their work will influence policy-makers and practitioners in the TCI and the Caribbean, and make a helpful theoretical contribution to the international literature on small states. The Graduate School of Education is planning to develop further research links with them and this small state in the future.
Other events
Also, over the summer, Angeline Barrett and Leon Tikly have been travelling in Africa, and elsewhere, on EdQual business; Gabrielle Hogan-Brun presented papers at the AILA World Congress in Essen, and led an Invited Symposium on Language Education Reforms at the Margins of Europe. Gabrielle also gave an Invited Keynote Paper at the University of Vilnius in September, and Michael Crossley and Terra Sprague (MEd student) participated in the BAICE Annual Conference at the University of Glasgow.
The BAICE sponsored (Bristol/Birmingham) Dissertation Writing Workshop, held in the GSoE (opened by Elizabeth McNess and Sara Meadows) inspired Terra to present her paper in Glasgow – and BAICE confirmed their willingness to fund a follow-up meeting in 2010, at the University of Birmingham.
Dave Bainton’s ESRC-sponsored, post-doctoral research took him back to Ladakh for a month over the summer in the process of disseminating his work on education and indigenous knowledge and, in late-September, Nkobi Pansiri presented a paper based on his doctoral research at a national conference in Botswana. A visit to Bristol by Prof Mark Bray (Director of IIEP in Paris) facilitated planning, with Michael, on future research on education in small states in collaboration with Dame Pearlette Louisy (Governor General of Saint Lucia). On the small states front, ICS is also pleased to welcome new PhD student, Mindy Colin, who will be drawing upon her professional experience in Mauritius. ICS, in collaboration with UWE, has also won Commonwealth Professional Fellowship funding to bring Dr Willie Ako back to the GSoE in 2009, for three months, from Papua New Guinea.
Congratulations go to Michele Mills who completed her PhD upgrade over the summer and to Sheila Trahar who edited and published a Special Issue of Compare on narrative approaches to comparative and international education. Ning Liu (former ICS doctoral student) also had two journal articles published, and Nkobi Pansiri has seen his first paper published in the International Journal of Educational Development. Gabrielle has had a new chapter published in an edited book on neo-colonial mentalities in contemporary education, and Michael has a lead paper in the July issue (vol 54) of the International Review of Education, and a piece in the recent Special Issue of Comparative Education on education in small states.
Spring Term 2008
May saw the publication of a Special Issue of 'Comparative Education' (Vol 44, No 2) titled 'Education in Small States: Global Imperatives, Regional Initiatives and Local Dilemmas', guest edited by Peter Mayo (University of Malta), which will include an article by Michael Crossley, entitled 'The Advancement of Educational Research in Small States'.
In April, Michael Crossley visited UNESCO/IIEP, in Paris, where he is working with the Director, Prof Mark Bray, planning a number of future initiatives relating to education in small states. Michael also gave an invited public seminar for the Schools of Development Studies and Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia, in February, titled 'Rethinking Context in Comparative and International Education'. Angeline gave an invited seminar at the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex, which drew on both her doctoral research and EdQual.
In February, several ICS staff and MEd and doctoral students attended an excellent UKFIET colloquium at the Institute of Education, London, for the launch of the 2008 Global Monitoring Report 'Education for All by 2115: Will we make it?'.
Angeline Barrett and Leon Tikly presented papers at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Conference at Teachers' College, New York, in March. Leon also presented two papers at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) the following week. Angeline's article on pedagogy in Tanzanian primary classrooms, published in 'Comparative Education' in 2007, was short listed for the 2008 Joyce Caine award, which recognises a paper that makes a substantial contribution to research in education related to Africa or people of African descent.
Members of ICS have been very active in terms of invited seminars, conference attendance and publication over the last few months. Gabrielle Hogan-Brun presented a paper at the 2nd International Conference, on Language, Education and Diversity, University of Waikato, New Zealand in November entitled ‘Language-in-Education Across the Baltic: Policies, practices, challenges’. Gabrielle also served as a Scientific Committee member for the Sociolinguistics Symposium SS17 on Micro and Macro Connections, University of Amsterdam in April, where she gave an invited paper, ‘Re-constructing multilingual orientations in Central/Eastern Europe’.
Meanwhile, Gabrielle Hogan-Brun has recently published the following:
- Hogan-Brun, G. (with U. Ozolins, M. Ramonienė & M. Rannut), Language Policies and Practices in the Baltic States. Polity series of ‘Current Issues in Language Planning’ 2007, 8: 4. Multilingual Matters, Clevedon (co-ordinating lead author).
- Reprinted 2008 in: Language Planning and Policy in Europe (vol. 3). The Baltic States, Ireland and Italy, eds R. Kaplan & R. Baldauf. Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, pp. 31-192.
- Hogan-Brun, G. (with T. Bulajeva) Language and Education Orientations in Lithuania post-EU Accession. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 11: 3 & 4 (2008).
Our new ICS Discussion Group series for doctoral researchers and supervisors, led by Gabrielle Hogan-Brun and Dave Bainton is also proving a success and all colleagues are welcome to attend.
Michael Crossley & Elizabeth McNess
Joint Co-ordinators