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alan.bradwell@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• MA Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
• MCLIP
• FHEA

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Member of the British Association for International and Comparative Education
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

Courses

• Pathway Leader BA (Hons) Education Studies
• Module Leader / Tutor BA (Hons) Education Studies and Early Childhood Education
• BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies
• BA (Hons) Education Studies
• General International link tutor for Department of Educational Studies

Outline of Career

Alan is a senior lecturer in Education Studies. His teaching has been in the educational studies strand of undergraduate initial teacher training degrees and the relationships between the individual and society in undergraduate pathways in education studies and early childhood education. Since September 2008 he has led a new single honours degree in education studies. He is committed to engagement with education through critical pedagogy and has been involved in writing undergraduate pathways for the Faculty based on the Freirean praxis of reflection, dialogue, action.

Prior to joining the Department of Education, Alan was an Academic Liaison Librarian who, as well as being responsible for library collections for Education, was also Chair of the national body Librarians of Institutes and Schools of Education. He developed a research interest through this work on student use of libraries as a site of critical literacy presenting at conferences in Leeds, Manchester and Copenhagen.

Research interests

Alan's Masters dissertation was titled 'A long standing and unsolvable problem? A critical discussion of the achievement of Black Caribbean children 1979 to 2003.' He is looking to develop this into doctoral work on interpretations of black people's education in England 1979-1985.

Currently, Alan is leading a HEFCE research project reporting to Deputy Vice Chancellor Lesley Dobree involving an interdisciplinary and interagency team. The aims of this research are to investigate reasons for the low participation of young people in the Fenland district of NE Cambridgeshire, recommend models to improve this participation, and contributing to sustaining links with the area in terms of supporting young people's participation.

Selected publications

Chapters in books
Shilela, A. and Bradwell, A. (2007) Dialogue with difference: understanding race equality. In J. Moyles (ed.) Beginning Teaching, Beginning Learning in Primary Education (3e) Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Journal articles
Shilela, A. and Bradwell, A. (2004) Developing student reading in teacher education. Education Libraries Journal. Spring, 47(1): 26-30.

Conference papers

International
Luff, P., Papatheodorou, T. and Bradwell, A. (2006) Considering academic literacies as conflicting literacy practices. Paper presented at Creating Knowledge IV, the international conference of Association of Danish Research Libraries, The Royal Library and University of Copenhagen, August 16-18.


National
Bradwell, A., Luff, P. and Papatheodorou, T. (2006) Rocks, fishes and a slice of cake: a study into integrating and facilitating the development of academic literacy with a cohort of undergraduate students. Paper presented at LILAC, the conference of CSG Information Literacy Group, 27th-29th March, University of Leeds.

Bradwell, A. (2006) Education, blank, education: what's available and what's missing? Paper presented at UKeIG conference eResources in Higher and Further Education: changes, challenges and choices, 5th July, University of Manchester.

Luff, P. and Bradwell, A. (2005) Wading through the mud to catch the fish: using HERON to make key readings available to large groups of students. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Librarians of Institutes and Schools of Education at the Ivy Hotel, Margaretting, Essex on 30th March