Dr Anton Franks
- Qualifications and position:
- MA, PGCE, PhD
- Senior Lecturer in Education, English & Drama
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Children and Learning
- Department:
- Culture, Communications and Media
- Summary:
- Drama Education - curriculum, pedagogy and learning
English in Education - curriculum, pedagogy, learning and policy
Teacher development and learning to teach
Co-director of ESRC project 'The Production of School English
Bodily action and communication in learning and teaching
Post-Vygotskian approaches to learning - activity and sociocultural theory
Social semiotics, multimodality and learning
Teaching and learning Shakespeare - collaboration with the Globe
- Teaching:
- Secondary PGCE in English with Drama (full time)
MA English Education
- Postgraduate Research:
- Drama education and learning in drama–Vygotskian and semiotic approaches
Teacher education and development
Daisy Loyd–drama with young people who have an autistic spectrum disorder (co-supervised with Dawn Male)
David Wright–development of new teachers' professional knowledge about managing behaviour and classrooms (co-supervised with Andrew Brown)
- Professional Activities:
- Chair of Academic Board
Research in Drama Education–editorial board member
London English Theory Group member
- Conferences/presentations:
- Multimodality and Learning: an International Conference New Perspectives on Knowledge, Representation and Communication, London, 19-20 June 2008, presented paper 'Making sense: the role of affect and multimodality in learning'
IV Jornadas de Desarrollo Humano y Educación, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, 6-9 September 2005, invited speaker ('Making sense, making meaning and doing it with feeling–the case for learning drama in school') and workshop leader ('Frankenstein: making monsters, then and now')
Researching Drama and Theatre in Education, international conference, University of Exeter, School of Education, 13-16 April 2005, presented paper on 'School drama, terror and television: lessons to be learnt from children's activity in drama'
Contact details
- Email: A.Franks@ioe.ac.uk
Address:- Culture, Communications and Media
Institute of Education University of London
20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL
Office Location:- Room 617a
20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL
Publications
- Franks, A. (2008) 'School drama and representations of war and terror: some theoretical approaches to understanding learning in drama in troubled times', Research in Drama Education 13(1), 23-37.
- Franks, A. (2007) 'Drama, School and Social Change: Theoretical Approaches to Learning in History and Culture', Applied Theatre Researcher/IDEA Journal 7,
- Burn, A., Durran, J. and Franks, A. (2006) 'Stories of the three-legged stool: English, media, drama, from critique to production', English in Education 40(1), 64-79.
- Franks, A. (2004) Teoría del apredizaje y educación dramática: una perspectiva vygotskiana, histórico-cultural y semiótica (Learning theory and drama education: a Vygotskian, historical cultural and semiotic approach). Cultura y Educación.
- Franks, A. (2004) La práctica de la educación dramática: un ejemplo y análisis cultural de aprendizaje y enseñanza en una clase de drama de secdundaria (Drama education in action: an example and cultural analysis of learning and teaching in a secondary drama lesson). Cultura y Educación.
- Kress, G., Jewitt, C., Bourne, J., Hardcastle, J., Jones, K., Reid, E. and Franks, A. (2005) English in Urban Classrooms: a multimodal perspective on teaching and learning. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
- Franks, A. (2003) 'Palmers' kiss: Shakespeare, school drama and semiotics' In G. Kress and C. Jewitt (eds), Multimodal Literacy. New York: Peter Lang.
- Franks, A. (2003) 'The Role of Language on a Multimodal Curriculum' N. Addison and L. Burgess (eds), Issues in Art and Design. London: Routledge.
- Davies, H., Franks, A., Loveless, A., Mosdell, N. and Wheeler, T. (2003) 'Keys to Imagination ICT in Art Education, Creating Spaces', London: Arts Council England
