Institute of Education London

Irene Schwab

• Qualifications and position:
  • Course Leader PGCE/Diploma Language, Literacy and Numeracy
• Faculty:
  • Faculty of Policy and Society
• Department:
  • Lifelong and Comparative Education
• Summary:
  • I am the Pathway leader for the specialist Literacy and ESOLPGCE and also have oversight of the LLN courses in the department.
• Teaching:
  • PGCE/PgCE Literacy or ESOL Postgraduate Certificate in Literacy Teaching
• Research Projects:
  • Currently researching effective practice in teaching literacy (especially reading); specialist subject knowledge for teacher education programmes; Literacy and ESOL integrated teacher education programmes
• Professional Activities:
  • RaPAL Management Committee
• Conferences/presentations:
  • LSRN Conference Dec 2008 'Professionalism in literacy education: who are the 'experts'?' (with Nora Hughes) RaPAL Conference June 2008 'What do learners want to learn? What do teachers need to teach?' (with Nora Hughes) RaPAL Conference June 2008 'Literacy and ESOL – who are the learners and what are the implications for teacher education?' (with Anne McKeown and Vera Hutchinson)
• Personal Country Knowledge:
  • UK Teacher education
• Languages Spoken:
  • French (intermediate), German (intermediate)
• Languages Written:
  • French (intermediate), German (intermediate)
• Research Students:
  • Research interests: teaching reading to adults; specialist LLN teacher education