About this Event
Hosted by the Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE) and the Language, Literacies and Education Network (LLEN)
Louise Hazell (University of Bristol), Mercy Martins (University of Bath) and Dinara Shaimakhanova (University of Bristol)
Research guided by critical theoretical perspectives on language and literacies deepens understanding of exclusions and marginalisation in education. It also points the way forward for inclusive, socially just curricula and practices. Presenters in this roundtable will introduce three different research perspectives and show how they are generative of critical questions on language and literacies in education.
Leveraging Anti-Colonial Theory to Resist Colonial Language Practices in Nigerian schools
Mercy O. Martins
A degendering perspective on the English curriculum in UK secondary schools
Louise Hazell
A Critical realist perspective on teachers’ policy enactment in Kazakhstan
Dinara Shaimakhanova
About the presenters
Louise Hazell is a secondary English teacher with nine years' experience, including three years teaching at an international school in Tianjin, China. Louise previously studied for the M.Ed. at the University of Cambridge, researching reading for pleasure. She is currently teaching at an independent school in Bristol whilst studying for the Ed.D.
Mercy O. Martins is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Education at the University of Bath, UK. Hailing from Nigeria, her research interests encompass language-in-education, decolonisation, minority languages, anti-colonial theory, and indigenous knowledge.
Dinara Shaimakhanova is a certified teacher of English as a foreign language (EFL) with more than 12 years of experience in Kazakhstani and Georgian secondary and tertiary educational institutions. Having finished her TESOL and CELTA she has pursued to research EFL teachers’ practice in the context of language policy and planning analysis.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
This is a HYBRID EVENT: Join the event in person or by Zoom | Please find Zoom and room details at the end of your order confirmation email., School of Education, Bristol, United Kingdom