This book follows three collaborative inquiry studies carried out by the author with other foreign language educators in Ireland, the UK and the US. The studies focus on the ongoing interaction between educators, student-teachers and language learners, and the project’s aim is to examine the impact of ‘transformative pedagogy’.
Patrick Farren is a lecturer in education at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has experience in language teaching and teacher education in Ireland, France, Spain, Libya, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the US. He was previously the editor of Teanga, the journal of the Irish Research Association for Applied Linguistics, and his research interests include language teaching and learning, addressing English language learners’ needs, bilingualism, interculturalism, inquiry based teaching, critical pedagogy, the history of education, philosophy and Middle Eastern culture.