Changing Practice
Today’s been a complicated day, if for nothing else because I hate chairing meetings!!!!! On top of that this was a meeting that touched on a very sensitive area: changing practice. Although this...
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Hello everyone, My name is Ilona Buchem and I will be writing here on how ICT is changing educational sciences and education research today. I titled this blog “Paradygmat” which is a Polish word for...
View ArticleReviews, quality and the development of communities of practice in academic...
I have just spent the morning reviewing proposals for the Vocational education and Training Network strand at the European Conference for Educational Research. I have never enjoyed reviewing papers. I...
View ArticleIt’s all in the connection!
This is what started to be a very short post where I aimed to share D’arcy’s really interesting video about ‘How do you connect to people online’?, which Irmeli Aro shared with me via FB. But I ended...
View ArticleWhat’s the role of narrative inquiry in my research project?
Well, this is a question many people have been asking me. This is equally a question I ask myself. Simply because it is still hard to articulate my purpose and choices in such a way it becomes clear...
View ArticleStories of a dinosaur
I am still in Porto, at the Faculty of Engineering , in the University of Porto. Yesterday I did a short presentation about the use of Social Media in Higher Education for the eLearning @FEUP workshop....
View ArticleIntegrating technology into researcher training
Two months ago or so I was challenged to submit a case study to the VITAE Integrating Technology in research training Workshop, which I did. It ended up being accepted and on Thursday I presented it. A...
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Writing plain English
For my sins I often am asked to review papers for conferences, books and journals. I think this is fair as a contribution to an emerging community of practice but i can’t say I enjoy the process. I...
View ArticleWhere is European educational research heading?
My promised post on the European Conference on Education Research, held earlier this month at the Freie Universitat, Berlin. The conference attracted some 2200 delegates with hundreds of presentations...
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