Introduction to the Special Issue: Neoliberalism in Education

Special Issue: Neolibaralism in EducationEducatio

Introduction to the Special Issue on Liminal Hotspots

This article introduces a special issue of Theory and Psychology on liminal hotspots. A liminal hotspot is an occasion during which people feel they are caught suspended in the circumstances of a transition that has become permanent. The liminal experiences of ambiguity and uncertainty that are typically at play in transitional circumstances acquire an enduring quality that can be described as a “hotspot”. Liminal hotspots are characterized by dynamics of paradox, paralysis, and polarization, but they also intensify the potential for pattern shift. The origins of the concept are described followed by an overview of the contributions to this special issue

Introduction to the Special Issue

Understanding qualitative inquiry as a global endeavor leads to several challenges. First, we still live in different worlds of qualitative research—There are local traditions with limited exchanges. This has to do not only with language barriers but also with political and scientific contexts, in which research is embedded. These differences complicate the globalization of qualitative inquiry. Second, research issues become increasingly globalized: People are migrating into other cultures and bring along their cultural backgrounds and understandings—of social services, for example. If we want to study encounters of migrating people with the local social systems, we face a diversity of experiences and values. Third, for understanding such an encounter from both sides, we may need to adapt our methods or even need a triangulation of methods (e.g., biographic interviews, expert interviews, and ethnographies). In this special issue, challenges like these three will be discussed from different angles

Introduction to the Special Issue

[Without Abstract] Introduction to International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, Volume 53, Issue 2 (Jun 2015)- Special Issue: Processing instruction: New insights after twenty years of theory, research and application. Guest Editors: Alessandro Benati and James F. Lee