Dr. Rahat Zaidi from the University of Calgary, Canada, and long time collaborator of GREIP, presented a motivating seminar on the affordances of dual-language books and other multilingual online resources for implementing inclusive, multilingual practices in schools. Dr. Zaidi was invited as a special speaker to the module taught by Dr. Dooly and Dr. Masats […]
The project LOCALL aims at implementing linguistic landascapes and other visual methods to help students reflect on linguistic diversity and language biographies. Due to the current COVID-19 scenario, the original plans for documenting our schools and streets seemed like an unattainable task, but not for these primary and secondary school teachers and GREIP collaborators, who […]
Dr. Silvia Melo-Pfeifer, IP of project LOCALL (Local Linguistic Landscapes for global language education in the school context) where GREIP participates, presented data from the project in a seminar to Master and PhD students from UAB, organized by Dr. Melinda Dooly for a module in the Master on Research in Education at the UAB. The […]
GREIP members are still working hard, taking part in virtual meetings to keep our projects going. Recently members of GREIP have taken part in online meetings for ENACT, LoCALL, Eduplus and CODICOE, working together with our international partners to devise the best ways forward in face of the Covid 19 crisis. GREIP’s insight L’adaptació a […]
Melinda Dooly, IP of our research group, was interviewed as expert in telecollaboration along with Bryan Smith from Arizona State University. Their insightful conversation, leaded by Marco Cappellini, was then turned into an article recently published in the Journal of Virtual Exchange. The article, entitled ‘Telecollaboration and virtual exchange between practice and research: a conversation‘, is part […]
A+ Project is an initiative supported by the Institute of Educational Sciences (ICE) of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) that teams a group of in-service Primary teachers and teacher educators with the objective of gaining (and sharing) expertise on the implementation of PBL in primary schools and the use of multiple resources (realia, digital […]
In lieu of the much anticipated Kick-off meeting of our network, the IPs held an online meeting to discuss how to move forward with our network report and other contingency plans for the upcoming months. The general consensus is that we must adapt and continue to push towards our goals laid down in our work […]
Avui 10 de març ens hem reunit entorn d’una taula una mica diferent, buida de papers i plena de menjars d’arreu del món. Volíem celebrar que som un grup amb moltes idees i projectes (incloent-hi un nadó en camí i una que acaba d’arribar!), i amb moltes ganes de seguir treballant per l’ensenyament plurilingüe. Salut GREIP ! Salud! Cheers! […]
We have recently received this image of a sign promoting English learning in St Jordi Primary School (Molet del Vallès), where GREIP member Maria Mont works as an English teacher, and with whom GREIP has collaborated in several projects. It is a pleasure to see our collaboration promoted as an asset for the educational community, […]