School of Education

Dr Maureen Farrell

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  • Senior Lecturer (Creativity Culture and Faith)

telephone: 01413303017
email: Maureen.Farrell@glasgow.ac.uk


Research interests

Scottish Children's Literature, Children's Literature; Scottish Literature,  Picture Books; Visual Literacy,  Mentor Training 

Career history

After completing a degree in Psychology and English at the University of Glasgow, I worked as a researcher for the Department of Clinical Oncology on an education programme aimed at preventing children from starting smoking. I then completed a PGCE at St Andrew's College and was an English teacher in Ayrshire and Glasgow and in Motherwell College. I began working in teacher education at St Andrew's College in 1993 and went on to become the B Ed Programme Leader (1997-2002) and the Associate Dean for Initial Teacher Education (2002-2008). I am currently a Senior Lecturer and teach on the B Ed, and PGDE programmes. I am a Graduate Advisor of Studies, with particular responsibility for part-time students. I completed my PhD on Culture and Identity in Scottish Children's Fiction in 2008.

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Number of items: 10.

2012

Farrell, Maureen (2012) Striking teachers: images of teachers in Scottish children’s literature. In: The Teacher: Image, Icon, Identity. Representations of the Teacher in the Arts and Humanities. The Edwin Mellen Press. (In Press)

2010

Farrell, M., Arizpe, E. , and McAdam, J. (2010) Journeys across visual borders: Annotated spreads of 'The Arrival' by Shaun Tan as a method of understanding pupils' creation of meaning through visual images. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 33 (3). pp. 198-210. ISSN 1038-1562

Farrell, M. (2010) Miss, is this a real book? Bottle Imp, 2010 (7). ISSN 1754-1514

2009

Arizpe, E., Farrell, M. , and McAdam, J. (2009) Visual connections: immigrant and non-immigrant pupils create a reading community around a wordless picturebook. In: United Kingdom Literacy Association 45th International Conference: Making Connections: Building literate communities in and beyond the classroom, July 2009, London.

Farrell, M. (2009) Singing in a new world: Scotland - hopeless schizophrenic or cosmopolitan post nation? In: Children's Literature and Cultural Diversity: 19th Biennial Congress of the IRSCL, 8-12 Aug 2009, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Farrell, M. (2009) The ballads of Tam Lin and Thomas the Rhymer: transformations and transcriptions. In: Poetry and Childhood Conference, 20-21 April 2009, British Library, London, UK.

Niven, L., and Farrell, M. (2009) Addressing the Bard: Learning Ideas. Other. Scottish Poetry Library / Learning and Teaching Scotland.

2008

Arizpe, E., Farrell, M. , and McAdam, J. (2008) Journeys across visual borders with The Arrival by Shaun Tan. In: SERA International Conference, Perth. (Unpublished)

2007

Farrell, M.A. (2007) 'To see oursels as others see us': the imaging of children in a selection of Scottish children's historical fiction. Journal of Children's Literature Studies, 4 (2). pp. 37-53. ISSN 1743-0526

2006

Farrell, M. (2006) The lost boys and girls of Scottish children's fiction. In: Brown, I., Clancy, T., Manning, S. and Pittock, M. (eds.) Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 198-206. ISBN 9780748624829

This list was generated on Fri May 25 22:07:23 2012 BST.

Member of the team with research grant funded by the UK Literary Association to the value of £2,600. Topic: Visual Journeys: Exploring immigrant children's visual literacy through intercultural responses to wordless picturebooks.

I welcome PhD applications on children's literature, picture books, Scottish children's fiction, developing reading and visual literacy.

I each on the B Ed, and PGDE programmes. I am a Graduate Advisor of Studies, with particular responsibility for part-time students.

Consulting and advice

Consultant for Scottish Poetry Library 2009 for new Publication Addressing the Bard. Teaching materials to accompany this text, distributed to all secondary schools in Scotland, are available at http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/Images/addressingthebard-learn_tcm4-566829.pdf

Academic and professional body membership

Member of the International Research Society for Children's Literature

Additional information

Currently involved in a major CPD contract with Perth and Kinross Council on Literacy across the Curriculum