Staff Profile:Professor Naz Rassool
- Name:
- Professor Naz Rassool
- Job Title:
- Professor of Education
- Responsibilities:
Teaching:
- MA in Organisation, Planning and Management in Education;
- BA in Education;
- Supervision of PhD Theses,
- MA Dissertations,
- BA in Education Advanced Teaching Projects
Main responsibilities in the Institute:
- Director of Masters in Organisation, Planning and Management in Education Programme,
- Director of Centre for International Studies in Education (CISEMT);
- Chair, Board of Studies MA in Organisation, Planning and Management in Education;
- Member, Board of Studies for Advanced Teaching and Learning Programme.
University responsibilities: Member of Senate (2001-2003)
- Areas of Interest:
Research Interests
- Language, Literacy and Societal Development; Language Rights, Education and Identity Formation, Political Economy of Technology in Education;
- National Language in Education Policy Frameworks;
- Language and Transmigration;
- Inclusive Education
- Research groups / Centres:
- Publications:
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Recent Publications
Rassool, N. (March 2007) Global Issues in Language, Education and Development: Perspectives from Postcolonial Societies. Clevedon, Avon: Multilingual Matters Ltd. pp.350
Rassool, N. (2006) Postmodernity, Cultural Pluralism and the Nation-State: problems of language rights, human rights, identity and power, (Ed.) Yu Weihua, Cross-Cultural Studies Reader, New Perspectives in Literature and Culture Series, Wuhan University Press, China, ISBN 7-307-04872-8.
Rassool, N. (2006) Language Policies and Education in Britain, Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd Edition, Volume 1, Social and Policy Contexts, (Eds. Stephen May and Nancy Hornberger), Kluwer Press.
Rassool, N. (2005) Language and Education, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Entrée under Theme 6.20 Linguistic Anthropology, UNESCO; the EOLSS forms part of UNESCO's60 years celebrations this year.
Rassool, N. (2004) Countering Globalization: Linguistic Diversity and the Assertion of Local Voices in Development. In K. Fraurud and K. Hyltenstam (eds.) Multilingualism in Global and Local Perspectives, Stockholm: Rinkeby Institute of Multilingual Research pp. 31-46.
Rassool, N. (2004) Literacy in Search of a Paradigm. Chapter 1in J.Soler, J.Wearmouth, G. Reid (Eds.) Conceptualizing Difficulties in Literacy Development: Exploring Politics, Culture, Ethnicity and Ethics. Pp. 17-46. London: Routledge.
Rassool, N. (2004) Flexible Identities: exploring 'race' and gender issues amongst a group of immigrant pupils in an inner-city comprehensive school, with author's commentary, OU Reader, Course EK310 Research with Children and Young People, pp. 233-253. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
Rassool, N. (2004) Language and Communicative Competence in the 21st Century: the role of education. In S. Mansoor, A. Tahir and S. Meraj (eds.) Language Policy, Planning and Practice: a South Asian Perspective, pp. 3- 22, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Rassool, N. (2003) Literacy, Current Status of. In D. Johnston and N. Pannissidi (eds.) Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications. San Diego: Academic Press pp 49-60.
Rassool, N. (2004) Sustaining linguistic diversity within the global cultural economy: issues of language rights and linguistic possibilities. Comparative Education, Special Issue: Postcolonialism and Comparative Education Vol.40, No.2 pp.199-214.
Rassool, N. (2004) Social Class and Education: exploring the rational order of the nation state vs. global uncertainties. Pedagogy, Culture and Society. Special Edition, Vol.12, No. 1, pp. 121-139.
External roles and links
External Examiner BA (Hons) Cultural and Historical Studies; BA (Hons) Humanities, School of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Brighton (2004 – continuing)
Research and Development
- Approaches to the teaching of early reading. With Professor Viv Edwards, A review of literature and research for ESTYN, HMI for Wales, 2006.
- Pupils' Narratives: Educational Achievement Amongst African Pupils in British Schools – Pump-Prime Funding, University of Reading, Research Endowment Fund.
- Literacy in Multilingual Settings. With Professor Viv Edwards and the Project for Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA), University of Cape Town. British Council 2001 – 2005
External Administration and Research Advice
Editor, Pedagogy, Culture & Society: a journal of educational discussion and debate, publisher: Routledge, (2000 - continuing)
Founder Member of the Organising Committee of the International Union of Anthropologists and Ethnologists (IUAES) Commission on Linguistic Anthropology (2003 - continuing)
Member of Editorial Board, VASA International Journal of Technology, Culture and Education (2004 – continuing)
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Education Policy, Taylor & Francis (2004 – continuing)
Member of Editorial Board, Gender & Education, Taylor & Francis (2003 –continuing)
Member Editorial Board, International Journal of Inclusive Education, Taylor & Francis Ltd. (2001- continuing)
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts
