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Ms Shelley Tracey

BA (Hons), MA, MEd, PGDipEd, Diploma in Counselling
Teaching Fellow

20 College Green
School of Education
Queen’s University Belfast

Tel: +44 (0)28 9097 5196
Fax: +44 (0)28 9097 1084
Email: s.tracey@qub.ac.uk

 

Leadership Roles:

  • Coordinator of Essential Skills tutor qualifications programme
  • Member of AISHE  Executive (All Ireland Society for Higher Education)

 

Teaching:

  • Essential Skills: Certificate and Diploma in the Teaching and Management of Literacy and Essential Skills
  • Masters in Educational Studies: Creativity in Practice for Educators
  • Postgraduate Skills Training Programme
  • Winner of QUB Teaching Awards:  Team Award 2005; Individual Award for Experienced Staff 2007

 

Research/Scholarship Interests:

  • Practitioner research,  teacher creativity, assessing creativity, poetry as a means of engaging learners in adult literacy classes, arts-based reflection in teacher education, technology and new literacy practices

 

Research/Scholarship Projects:

  • (2011) Creating spaces for teachers to explore the assessment of creativity
  • SCoTENS project  (2011)  Developing arts-based and online methods of reflection for adult educators  (with Waterford Institute)
  • (2010 to date)Exploring the use of creative methods to engage adult literacy and numeracy tutors in practitioner research
  • (2009 to date) Training life-sentenced prisoners as adult literacy tutors in prisons

 

Recent European projects:

  • Evete 2: (2008- 2010) European Literacy Project: tutor training in Adult Literacy and Numeracy
  • Eur-Alpha (2010 to date): European  project developing network of exchanges between literacy and numeracy practitioners and learners

 

Publications:

  • Tracey, S. (2007) Learning from Learning from Practitioner Research: Engaging Adult Literacy Tutors in Northern Ireland in Communities of Participation and Practice, The International Journal of Learning, Volume 14, Issue 6, pp.171-180
  • Tracey, S. (2008) (Ed.) Practitioner Research in Essential Skills. Perspectives on engagement in learning. Belfast: LSDA and Queen’s University Belfast
  • Tracey, S. (2009) Crossing Thresholds and Expanding Conceptual Spaces: Using Arts-Based Methods to Extend Teachers’ Perceptions of Literacy, Learning Landscapes, Vol. 3 (1), pp. 243-262
  • Tracey, S.  (2009) Words, wheelchairs and poetry writing frames: enhancing confidence in writing in adult literacy,  Research and Practice in Adult Literacy Vol. 68/69, pp. 18-23
  • Tracey, S. (2010) "To avoid embarrassment, poetry should keep itself to itself”: an autoethnographic exploration of the place of poetry in adult literacy teacher education"
  • Learning Landscapes, Vol. 4(1), 2010, Poetry and Education: Possibilities and Practices, pp. 291-303
  • Tracey, S. (2011) Containers, Creativity and Quilt-making: an exploration of teachers’ conceptualisations of creative spaces for teaching and learning, TEAN Journal, Vol. 2
  • Tracey, S. (2011) Making text poems, using the small and open spaces. The rhythms of immediacy. Intimate connections.x, Artful Inquiry Series, Vol. 5, Backalong Books (in press)
  • (2011) Poetry in practice: engaging adult literacy tutors and learners in reading and writing poetry, Fine Print,  Vol. 34(1), pp. 3-11
  • (2012) The Role of Mentoring in Adult Literacy and Numeracy in Northern Ireland,  The SAGE Handbook of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, London, SAGE (in press).