In this first episode of the Teacher Training Clinic (see Facebook page here), Nazir Dawi from Kabul writes in with a question on motivating students to learn, especially in an ESL classroom. I… Continue reading
The viva voce, pronounced as /vʌɪvə vəʊtʃeɪ/, is a latin phrase in the 1580s that means “by word of mouth”. Also known as viva for short, it often refers to the (oral) defence… Continue reading
Great… I have just completed my conclusion chapter and abstract. Grammatical errors: check. References: check. Layout: check. Appendices: check. As I readied myself to merge all the files together (as I had saved… Continue reading
The two editions of the Afghan Girl appeared on my feed, and I was thinking, “Steve McCurry! What’s the news now?” But the title of the post “Rupert Murdoch marks first… Continue reading
Just yesterday, a few National Institute of Education (NIE) students — Alexandria Seah Ming Qi, Gavin Goh Shiming, and Pamela He Hui Mei — asked me for an interview for a presentation they… Continue reading
Oh My, PhD I awake. I see nothing but an unfinished desire. That despite my greasy ruffled hair and my unwashed face I sit, there, in my chair pondering over Butler, and Marx,… Continue reading
Instead of speaking about my research (where I was the finalist at the 3 Minute Thesis or 3MT Competition recently), my impact engagement has now moved from auditory to visual, from speech to… Continue reading
Bacha bazi is a controversial boy-dance in Afghanistan. So are its representations and reactions. (Source: “Dance of a bacha (dancing boy), Samarkand, ca 1905 – 1915”, by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. From the Library… Continue reading
An historian friend of mine sent me this archived photograph from the World Digital Library of a theatre group in Kandahar, dating as far back as 1878-1880 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. I… Continue reading
Titled “HANDS OFF AFGHANISTAN: THE SOFT POWER OF THEATRE?”, my presentation raises the issues around the politics of theatre-making. This was the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition founded by the University of Queensland.… Continue reading
