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David Bainton PhD

Position held:
Lecturer

Phone:
+44 (0)20 7078 5428

Email:
d.bainton (@gold.ac.uk)

David is a lecturer for PGCE Secondary Science.

After a chemistry degree Dave taught in secondary schools in London, Zimbabwe and Bhutan, before doing a PhD (Bristol) that looked at the effect of science education on indigenous knowledge in Ladakh, India. He has worked on curriculum development and the writing of educational materials in a number of developing countries, most recently for those children displaced by conflict in Northern Sri Lanka. Dave joined the department in 2010 and lectures on the secondary science PGCE course. Dave is committed to developing culturally and linguistically sensitive
educational practices that can function as positive drivers of educational development.

Research interests

Dave’s research interests centre around cultural aspects of science education, and in particular how science education impacts upon alternative and indigenous knowledges as they encounter through processes of development, migration and globalisation. Crucially this encounter is theorised from an indigenous knowledge perspective in order to be sensitive to the hegemonic practices that tend to marginalise non-western forms of knowing. Taking a narrative methodological approach within a critical theoretical framework, Dave’s current research interests are in the use of indigenous theory as a de-colonial move to decentre academic knowledge production.