‘The Song of Justice must be Sung’
Yvonne has worked as a teacher and teacher educator for many years in the field of English as an additional language, both in Taiwan and across the UK. She taught for a number of years as an EAL teacher and EAL Coordinator in the American schooling system before moving back to the UK to take up the position as a teacher educator at the University of Edinburgh. Yvonne currently teaches on the PGDE secondary programme, leading an EAL course for multidisciplinary groups of secondary student teachers, and is the course organiser for Literacies on the MSc Transformative Learning and Teaching programme , which prepares both Primary and Secondary student teachers to address social, cultural and linguistic diversity in today’s classrooms.
Yvonne’s research and teaching interests lie in the area of Literacies and teacher education in order to promote social, cultural and linguistic inclusion. She is interested in the ways that critical approaches to literacies can be implemented in classroom practices to ensure that both teachers and pupils recognise that there is more than one language, history, culture, identity , geography and ideology across the world. Yvonne very much enjoys working with both pre and in-service teachers to explore how to develop professional identities and practices that recognise and respond to the learning needs of all pupils, particularly those from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds.