Rosalyn George PhD MA BA(Ed)
Rosalyn is Professor of Education and Equality. She is MA tutor for modules in Masculinities and Femininities and Culture and Pedagogy and BA Education, Culture and Society cooridnator for Culture and Identity. She supervises MPhil/PhD students covering a range of research fields. Please contact Rosalyn for PhD vacancies.
Rosalyn has taught in both primary and middle schools in London. She was a LEA Advisory Teacher for Equal Opportunities, in the London Borough of Merton and a senior Lecturer in Education at University College, Chichester.
Rosalyn’s research interests coalesce around issues of social justice and equity in the contexts of schools and Higher education.
She is particularly interested in exploring urban girls’ friendship networks and schooling. The diversity of ethnicities found in large urban communities and how the girls manage and negotiate their friendships across ethnic divisions is a central plank of her research. She focuses on the constitution of the friendship groups with questions of ‘leadership’ and ‘popularity’,’ race’ and ethnicity and ‘bullying’ being explored and their resonance for the ‘exclusionary’ and ‘inclusionary’ practices which characterise many friendship groups examined.
A further research interest is concerned with schooling experience of the children of Asylum seekers and Refugee families. This research explores how ‘xeno racist’ attitudes develop in pupils and the extent to which school policies and practices with respect to racism support inclusion and social justice for all.
Selected publications
George, R (2004) Girls, their Friendships and Primary/Secondary
School Transition, in ‘Festschrist’: For Caroline Benn:
Essays in Education and Democracy, Melissa Benn and Clyde Chitty
(Eds) Continuum Press
George, R (2004) Learning and Teaching in the Secondary School – Equality and Inclusion in, Viv Ellis (Ed.) Learning Matters, pp131-144 ISBN 1-903300- 38-x (updated)
George, R (2007) Urban Girls Friendships : Complexities and Controversies Rotterdam, Sense Publications
George, R (2007) Black Girls, Friendship and School Choice in Race, Ethnicity and Education (Forthcoming)
George, R & Wadsworth, J (2007) ' School Climate' , from Genderwatch: still watching... , Stoke
on Trent: Trentham Books