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| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Grenfell, Michael James | |
| Main Department | Education | |
| College Title | Chair of Education (1905) | |
| grenfelm@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 1737 | |
| Biography | |
| 1970-76: Medical Laboratory Scientist 1981-89: Teacher of French and German, Language Park Boys School London (Head of Department) 1989- 2008: Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer/ Reader/ Professor, University of Southampton, UK 2008- : Chair (1905) of Education, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. 2010 Elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin | |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Institute of Medical Laboratory Scientific Officers | 1970 | 1980 |
| Association of Language Learning | 1980 |
| Awards and Honours | |
| Award | Date |
| Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin | 2010 |
| Languages |
| Language | Skill Reading | Skill Writing | Skill Speaking |
| English | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| French | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| German | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| Spanish | Basic | Basic | Basic |
| Description of Research Interests |
| Language in Education Teacher Education Philosophy of Language Pierre Bourdieu Arts Education Communication Language Teaching Applied Linguistics |
| Research Interests | |||
| Continental philosophy | Creative music education | Early Gothic architecture in England | Education and minority language |
| English and European architecture, 18th and 19th centuries | Epistemology | Existentialism | Painting in 19th century Europe |
| Philosophy of logic and language | Realism |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | European Language Teacher Education |
| Summary | Survey of language teacher education across Europe |
| Funding Agency | EU |
| Programme | Education and Culture |
| Type of Project | |
| Date from | 2002 |
| Date to | 2004 |
| Person Months | 24 |
| Project title | European Language Teacher Profile |
| Summary | To create a profile for the Language teacher education in Europe |
| Funding Agency | EU |
| Programme | Education and Culture |
| Type of Project | Policy |
| Date from | 2004 |
| Date to | 2006 |
| Person Months | 24 |
| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Grenfell, M, Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics, 1st, London, UK, Continuum, 2011, 1 - 259pp | |
| Claim and Critiques in, editor(s)Cohen, A and Macaro, E , Language Learner Strategies: 30 Years of Research, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp9 - 28, [Grenfell, M and Macaro, E] | |
| Grenfell, M, ‘Social Capital and Educational Policy', Education, Knowledge and Economy, 3, (1), 2009, p17 - 34 | |
| Grenfell, M, Language AND Literacy, Reading Research Quarterly, 44, (4), 2009, p438 - 448 | |
| Grenfell, M, Bourdieu: Education and Training. , London, Continuum, 2007, 1 - 286pp | |
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