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War & Peace Issues Month: How You Can Participate – SHARE HERE!

How you can participate October 2015 is IATEFL Global Issues SIG special event – War & Peace Issues Month! For the third year in a row, we are holding a month-long online event. This is an asynchronous event, developed with the aim of sharing ideas about teaching English with a conscience, this year through the […]

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War & Peace Issues Month 2015

We live in turbulent times. Conflict, fear, anger, loss… They are also times of compassion, action, hope and great strength. For the third year, we are holding a month-long online event. We invite teachers, teacher trainers and writers to contribute their ideas on applying themes connected to “War & Peace” to an English teaching context. […]

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GISIG Esther Lucas Scholarship

The scholarship is named in memory of one of the founders of the Global Issues Special Interest Group and aims to assist a teacher to attend the IATEFL 50th anniversary conference in Birmingham in 2016. It is not necessary to be a member of IATEFL to apply for this scholarship. The award consists of: registration for […]

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Home & Shelter Issues month final SUMMARY

The month is over, but the resources live on right here! Resources by theme Certain themes, inter-related of course, seemed to resonate through Home & Shelter issues month. Discussions were accompanied by a lot of easily accessible online resources. This page is a collection of many of these, grouped by inter-related themes. For the complete […]

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Home & Shelter Issues Month Mid-October Summary

Home & Shelter Issues Month so far…     Homelessness has been a recurring topic this month, as in this poignant 4:30 clip about a poet, befriended on the streets of Sao Paolo, who finds home and shelter in a deep sense after nearly 35 years living on his urban “island”. See video and full […]

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Homes of the ‘Others’ : Lessons in Class and Ethnic Barriers and Difference

An interesting question to explore with students is what other ‘homes’ outside their family they have ever been inside, how often and why.  Of their friends, for example, and who their friends are. Many students everywhere have never been inside the home of the local ‘Others’.  In Israel, most Jewish citizens have never been in […]

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Home and Shelter Issues Month: How You Can Participate – SHARE HERE!

How you can participate October 2014 is IATEFL Global Issues SIG special event – Home and Shelter Issues Month! For the second year in a row, we are holding a month-long online event. This is an asynchronous event, developed with the aim of sharing ideas about teaching English with a conscience, this year through the […]

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Coming soon – a special online event

The IATEFL Global Issues SIG and Learning Technologies SIG are putting together an exciting month-long online event. The format will be a series of audio episodes, almost like a weekly radio show. Each episode will feature a full interview with an expert in the field of technology discussing different problematic aspects of edtech and global […]

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Manchester PCE – 10 April, 2015 @Central 6

Debate, discussion, dialogue: triggers for change Date: Friday 10th April, 2015 Facilitators: Scott Thornbury & Margit Szesztay The day will be a series of workshops focusing on how to get the most out of oral interaction with EFL groups in secondary school classrooms, higher education seminars and adult education contexts. Our main focus will be on […]

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WEBINAR: Graham Stanley – Plan Ceibal English in Uruguay

  Graham Stanley is currently project manager of Ceibal English for the British Council, working in Montevideo, Uruguay. Previously to this, he worked many years for the British Council Young Learner Centre in Barcelona, Spain as well as being social media manager for the British Council English websites (LearnEnglish, TeachingEnglish, LearnEnglish Kids, LearnEnglish Teens). He was project manager for the British […]

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