John Yandell

  • Qualifications and position:
    • Lecturer in Education (English Studies)
    • Subject Leader PGCE English and English with Drama
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Culture, Communications and Media
  • Summary:
    • John Yandell taught in inner London secondary schools for twenty years. He now leads the Secondary PGCE English and English with Drama course at the Institute. Research interests include the ways in which literature is read in urban English classrooms and the development of teacher identities.
  • Teaching:
    • English and English with Drama PGCE (Secondary): subject leader
      Master of Teaching: module leader, Developing Understanding of English, Media, Drama Studies
      MA in English Education, course tutor
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Literacy practices in secondary English classrooms in urban schools

      Subject knowledge, pedagogy and the role of critical reflection in the development of English teachers
  • Professional Activities:
    • NATE ITE committee member
      Editorial board, Changing English
      Editorial board, Reflecting Education
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Keynote lecture, LATE Conference (May 2008) on Every Child Matters
      Paper on "Developing the articulation of critical reflection on an ITE course" at ESCalate Conference (Carlisle, May 2008) in collaboration with Shirley Lawes and Ruth Heilbronn
      Paper on "Embodied readings: exploring the multimodal social semiotic resources of the urban secondary English classroom" at the Multimodality Conference (London, June 2008).
 

Contact details

Contact details

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  • Address:
  • Culture, Communications and Media
    Institute of Education University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London
    WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Room 619
    20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL

Publications

  • Yandell, J. (2008) 'Exploring Multicultural Literature: The Text, the classroom and the world outside', Changing English 15.1, 25-40.
  • Yandell, J. (2008) 'Mind the gap: Investigating test literacy and classroom literacy', English in Education 42.1, 70-87.
  • Yandell, J. (2008) 'Embodied readings: Exploring the multimodal social semiotic resources of the English classroom', English Teaching: Practice and Critique 7.1,
  • Yandell, J. and Turvey, A. (2007) 'Standards or communities of practice? Competing models of workplace learning and development', British Educational Research Journal 33.4, 533-550.
  • Yandell, J. (2007) 'Investigating literacy practices within the secondary English classroom, or where is the text in this class?', Cambridge Journal of Education 37.2, 249-262.
  • Turvey, A., Brady, M., Carpenter, A., and Yandell, J. (2006) 'The many voices of the English classroom', English in Education 40.1, 51-63.
  • Yandell, J. (2003) 'Thoughtless Language, or the Death of Child-centred Education', Changing English 10.1, 5-12.