Dr Mary Parker
- Qualifications and position:
- Faculty:
- Department:
- Summary:
- My interest is in the special educational needs of children and young people. This includes learning difficulties particularly with literacy and acquiring concepts of time, as well as social ,emotional and behavioural difficulties , ADHD and Asperger's syndrome.
- Teaching:
- Graduate Diploma in Special and Inclusive Education
Module leader ,and lecturer 'Learning, Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties' Masters in Special and Inclusive education
Lecturer in Concepts and Contexts of SIE
Research Design and Methodology
Dissertation supervisor for Master' s students SIE
D.Ed Psychology:
Academic supervisor
Foundation Degree
Lecturer: Children with Additional Needs
Publications
- Parker, M. and Hurry, J. (2007) 'Teachers' use of questioning and modelling comprehension skills in primary classrooms', Educational Review 59, 299-314.
- Hurry, J., Curno, T., Parker, M. and Pretzlik,U. (2006) 'Can we increase teachers' awareness of morphology and have an impact on their pupils' spelling?' In P. Bryant and T. Nunes (eds), Morphemes and Literacy: Lessons from research and practice. London: Routledge.
- Hurry, J., Brazier, L., Parker, M. and Wilson, A. (2006) Rapid Evidence Assessment of Interventions that Promote Employment for Offenders. London: DfES Research Report 747.
- Hurry, J., Bryant, P., Curno, T., Nunes, T., Parker, M. and Pretzlik, U. (2005) 'Teaching and Learning literacy', Research Papers in Education 20 (1), 187-206.
- Parker, M. (2003) ''No Sense of Time': A study of the difficulties experienced by dyslexic children in the acquisition of conventional concepts of time' Unpublished PhD thesis, Institute of Education, London
