Dr Norbert Pachler

  • Qualifications and position:
    • Mag.Phil, DPhil
    • Reader of Education
    • Co-Director: Centre of Excellence for Work-based Learning for Education Professionals (WLE)
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Culture & Pedagogy
  • Department:
    • Department of Learning, Curriculum & Communication
  • Summary:
    • Norbert is Reader in Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Excellence in Work-based Learning for Education Professionals at the Institute of Education, University of London. Apart from the application of new technologies in teaching and learning his research interests include teacher education and development and all aspects of foreign language teaching and learning.
  • Teaching:
      • Master of Teaching
      • MA TESOL
      • MRes
      • EdD
      • PhD
  • Research Projects:
      • Models of ICT CPD (Becta funded)
      • Scoping a vision for formative e-assessment (JISC funded)
  • Postgraduate Research:
      • Patricia Arinto, EdD: The integration of ICT in HE teaching in the Phillippines
      • Jaroslaw Dydowicz, EdD: Online EFL teaching
      • Anne Gallacher, MRes: Tracking emerging professional identities amongst Primary NQTs
      • Kerstin Heilgenberg, PhD: Acquisition of a second academic culture
      • Steven Hunt, MRes: Rationale and effectiveness of the teaching of Latin off timetable
      • Esmeralda Lopes, PhD: The impact of short term European student mobility programmes
      • Svetlana Malinic, MRes: Continuing education for teachers of EFL in Serbia
      • Doroteia Pita, EdD: The impact of new technologies on teaching and learning
      • Jean-Pierre le Tissier, PhD: Assessment for learning in foreign languages
  • Professional Activities:
    • Norbert is the convenor of the London Mobile Learning Group. He is joint editor of the Language Learning Journal (Routledge), Associate Editor of the London Review of Education, member of the Editorial Board of Teacher Development and Editor in Chief of Reflecting Education. Norbert has held, and holds numerous External Examinerships.
  • Conferences/presentations:
      • Symposium entitled 'Learning with mobile phones' at 21. Kongress der DGfE, Dresden, March 2008
      • Symposium entitled 'Digital media as cultural resources for learning.' CAL 09, Brighton, March 2009
      • Symposium entitled 'Interdisciplinarity and mobile learning research'. AERA 2009, San Diego, April 2009
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • Austria, Germany, European Community
  • Languages Spoken:
    • English, German (bilingual)
  • Languages Written:
    • English, German (bilingual)
Dr Norbert Pachler

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  • Address:
  • Department of Learning, Curriculum & Communication
    Institute of Education University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London
    WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Room 618b
    20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL

Publications

  • Vavoula, G., Pachler, N. and Kukulska-Hulme, A. (eds) (2009) Researching mobile learning: frameworks, tools and research design. Oxford: Peter Lang.
  • Pachler, N., Makoe, P., Burns, M. and Blommaert, J. (2008) 'The things (we think) we (ought to) do: ideological processed and practices in teaching.' . Teaching and Teacher Education, 24, 437-450.
  • Pachler, N., Barnes, A. and Field, K. (2008) Learning to teach modern foreign languages in the secondary school. 3rd edition. London: Routledge.
  • Allford, D. and Pachler, N. (2007) Language, autonomy and the new learning environments. Oxford: Peter Lang.
  • Pachler, N. (ed) (2007) Mobile learning: towards a research agenda. London: WLE Centre.
  • Pachler, N., Evans, M. and Lawes, S. (2007) Modern Foreign Languages: teaching school subjects 11-19. London: Routledge.
  • Pickering, J., Daly, C. and Pachler, N. (2007) New designs for teachers' professional learning. In Cambridge Journal of Education, 37(1), 1-15.
  • Pachler, N. (2007) 'Choices in language education: principles and policies.'. In Cambridge Journal of Education, 37(1), 1-15.
  • Pachler, N. and Daly, N. (2006) 'Online communities and professional teacher learning: affordances and challenges.' In E. Sorensen and D. Murchú (eds) Enhancing learning through technology. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, pp. 1-28.
  • Pachler, N. and Daly, C. (2006) 'Professional teacher learning in virtual environments: myth or reality'. In E-Learning, 3(1), 63-75.