[ Qualifications ]
[ Principal Interests ] [ Research
Supervision ]
[ Biographical
Note ] [ Current
and Recent Research ] [ Publications ]
Qualifications
- 2004: DPhil 'Bangladeshi Pupils: Experiences, Identity and Achievement' (Oxford University)
- 2001: MSc Educational Research
Methods (Oxford University)
- Post Graduate Diploma in the Use of Story in Therapy and Education (University of Hertfordshire)
- PGCE (with credit) (University of Birmingham)
- MA Women's Studies (University of Kent)
- MA Literature (University of Essex)
- RSA Cert ESL (Bell School, Norwich)
- BA(Hons) Humanities 2.1 (University of Wolverhampton, then Wolverhampton Polytechnic)
- Diploma of Higher Education (University of Wolverhampton, then Wolverhampton Polytechnic)
Principal
Interests
Research
interests include:
- the
educational experiences of multilingual pupils
(particularly British Bangladeshi pupils, and
of minority ethnic pupils)
- literacy
(particularly learning to read in multilingual
contexts); health and literacy
- identity
and subjectivity and their construction in classroom
and community contexts
- ethnography
and ethnographic methods
Research
Supervision
I am happy
to supervise research under the headings above. I
currently supervise doctoral students in the following
areas:
- The experiences of bi-cultural
pupils
- Migrant pupils
Biographical
Note
I have worked as a school teacher
and a specialist EAL teacher in England and in Tanzania, as well as working
for an educational charity as an administrator. I have been a project co-ordinator
for a government-funded programme working with Bangladeshi families, pupils
and their schools, looking at issues in relation to attainment. This led
to my doctoral research project. Since completing my DPhil, I have worked
as a researcher at the Open University looking at rural identities and
belonging in relation to ethnicity (with Dr Sarah Neal) and as a researcher
in the Literacy Research Centre, Lancaster University (under the leadership
of Prof David Barton and with Dr Uta Papen). I took up my appointment
as Lecturer in Educational Studies at Moray
House in August 2006.
Current
and Recent Research
I am currently involved in the
following areas of personal academic research:
- The experience of learning
to read when children are learning to read in more than one language,
in more than one domain at the same time
- The role of supplementary/complementary
schools with a focus on provision, purpose and pedagogy
Publications
Selected
Publications:
Walters, S., 2007
'Case Study' or 'Ethnography'? Defining Terms, Making Choices and Defending the
Worth of a Case in Methodological Developments in Ethnography, Ed. Walford, G.,
pp. 89-108, Oxford: Elsevier.
Walters, S., 2007
English as an Additional Language
in Learning and Teaching in Secondary Schools, Ed. Elllis, V., Exeter: Learning Matters.
Walters, S., 2007
Researching Bangladeshi Pupils' Strategies for Learning to Read in (UK) Primary School Settings
Language Learning Journal, Vol. 35(1), pp. 51-64, Ed. Grenfell, M. & Erler, L.
Neal, S. and Walters, S., 2007
You Can Get Away With Loads Because There's No-One Here: Discourses of Regulation and Non-regulation in English Rural Spaces
Geoforum, Vol. 38, pp. 252-263.
Papen, U. and Walters, S., 2008 Literacy, Learning and Health
NRDC/DfES, www.nrdc.org.uk
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