I have worked as a primary teacher and teacher educator in different countries for many years, including, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bulgaria and Poland.
I am interested in the roles of language and culture in the processes of learning, particularly for children in multilingual settings.
I have now spent almost 20 years as a teacher and then a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer on PGCE Primary, BA QTS and MA courses in West Yorkshire.
I completed my PhD in 2001 while I was working as a teacher-educator in Bradford. Since then, I have published several books, chapters and articles about these issues, and continued working with primary teachers and students.
My abiding interest in issues of equity and social justice in multilingual primary classrooms has led me to pursue linguistic ethnographic research methodologies to investigate and understand processes of teaching and learning from the points of view of the participants, and the ways these both mediate and are mediated by national and global imperatives.
I am very interested in understanding children's learning experiences in "complementary" and mainstream contexts, and also the professional experiences, roles and identities of bilingual primary teachers. |
