1. Beyond individual tools and an individual's assumptions
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... and cultural contexts,  working in and across different sectors. Our experience of the world is different from each others'. We have different time, family and project constraints. Our learning ...

2. Genre and Discourse Analysis (2004)
(Blog/Essays)

... concept of discourse has taken over the imprecise notion of language. He explains that "language" has not been adequate to account for historical, political and cultural "fixing" of ...

3. Weaving together Online and Face-to-Face (2006)
(Blog/Essays)

... phases in an emerging community of practice. Introduction and background "If we can stop focusing on who learns more or less of particular, culturally well-defined fragments of knowledge, and ask ...

4. Policy-making as design (2005)
(Blog/Essays)

... (Voght and Schaub, 1992) Discipline boundaries are breaking down and subjects such as ethics, sustainable development, languages and inter-cultural understanding are increasingly being integrated into ...

5. Inclusion/Exclusion or 'Clusion (2005)
(Blog/Essays)

... clusion, critical education and learning, cultural vigilance INCLUSION, EXCLUSION, 'CLUSION A friend of mine, John Smith, said he had difficulty in thinking of inclusion/exclusion as he felt ...

6. Intercultural Communication: some viewing lenses (2004)
(Blog/Essays)

I wrote this brief essay about intercultural communiction in 2004 and published it on my old site (http://btrayner.info). If you read the essay, you'll see that I'm uneasy about the term "culture" ...

7. Multiliteracies: a theoretical overview (2004)
(Blog/Essays)

... a multiplicity of literacies that are always related to specific cultural contexts. In a chapter called "perspectives on literacy", Brian Street compares two different of literacy and literacy ...

8. About Bev
('Uncategorised Content')

... UK for twelve. My mother is from Nakuru, Kenya although we always lived in Mombasa. My cross-national and cross-cultural upbringing has surely contributed to the way I find myself spanning disciplinary, ...