We are happy to inform, that the President and Vice-President of ISRS – Julian Stern and Małgorzata Wałejko – co-published an article entitled Ineffable education, the uncommunicable and the uncommunicated in the British Journal of Religious Education. This is a philosophical and theological exploration of the role of the ineffable as one of the central
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We are pleased to invite you to the next ISRS Seminar entitled “The Problem with The Loneliness Epidemic”. Our guest will be Professor Olivia Sagan from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. Professor Olivia Sagan (MA, PhD, MBACP, CPsychol, AFBPsS, PFHEA) is the Centre Director for the Centre for Applied Social Sciences, a Principal Fellow of
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We recommend a book by Dat Bao entitled Silence in English Language Pedagogy From Research to Practice. Silence in language learning is commonly viewed negatively, with language teachers often struggling to interpret learner silence and identify whether it is part of communication, mental processing or low engagement. This book addresses silence in language pedagogy from
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The seminar will take place on Thursday 9th February 2023 at 4 pm of UK time /11.00 US EST time /5pm Polish time / 5pm Malta /6pm Israeli time / 6pm Turkish time / 11pm Hong Kong / 1am next day Melbourne. The seminar will be held in the MS Teams application. If you want to join,
Read moreThere is already a video from the last ISRS seminar on our YT channel. Our guest was Dr. Anne Pirrie. She talked about finitude, solitude, and the renewal of generosity. We highly recommend!
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Wonderful news from Australia! A special issue of the ‘Journal of Silence Studies in Education’ entitled ‘Solitude Together With Education’ edited guestly by dr Małgorzata Wałejko (University of Szczecin, Poland) and prof. Julian Stern (Bishop Grosseteste University, UK) has just been published. We will find there articles by our Colleagues from the UK, Canada, Norway
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The seminar will take place on Thursday 27th October at 4 pm of UK time /11.00 US EST time /5pm Polish time / 5pm Malta /6pm Israeli time / 6pm Turkish time / 11pm Hong Kong / 1am next day Melbourne. The seminar will be held in the MS Teams application. If you want to join, click
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We invite you to the next seminars (on-line) organized by ISRS. The first will be on 27th October 2022. Dr Anne Pirrie (University of West of Scotland, UK) will talk about finitude, solitude, and the renewal of generosity. This contribution takes its inspiration from Edward Jabès’ observation that ‘thought has no ties: it lives by
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Dear ISRS Members We are excited to invite you to contribute to a special edition of Journal of Silence Studies in Education, entitled Silence and Solitude (December 2022). Dat Bao, the journal’s editor-in-chief and our Australian friend, asked us to edit a special issue building on the work of the Alone Together conference which took place at the end of
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The third International Pandisciplinary Symposium on Solitude in Community Alone Together took place online on the 31st of March and 1st of April 2022. The event was organized by the ISRS: the International Society for Research on Solitude together with the Institute of Pedagogy of the University of Szczecin (Poland) and Bishop Grosseteste University (UK) under auspices of The Reverend Canon Professor Peter
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