Ellis, Dr Viv

Job Title: University Lecturer in Educational Studies (English)
College: St. Cross
Period/ Subject: English Education

Email address: viv.ellis@education.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Teacher education and development, with particular reference to the teaching of English in schools, informed by cultural historical activity theory (CHAT).

The historical formation of subject English in schools. 

Sexualities and schooling, especially the relationships between the construction and reconstruction of identities and literacy practices.

Critical perspectives on digital technologies in education.

Teaching areas:

MSc Learning and Teaching

MSc Educational Research Methodology (Introduction to working with language data)

Advanced and Specialist Courses (DPhil/PRS): Oxford Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research

Selected recent publications:

Ellis, V. (2011) ‘Re-energising professional creativity from a CHAT perspective: Seeing knowledge and history in practice’, Mind, Culture and Activity: An International Journal 18, 2: 181 — 193.

Ellis, V. (2011) ‘What happened to teachers’ knowledge when they played the “Literacy Game”?’, in Goodwyn, A. & Fuller, C. eds. The Great Literacy Debate: A Critical Response to the National Literacy Strategy and Framework for English, London & New York: Routledge.

Horner, B. & Ellis, V. eds. (2011) ‘The Rhetorics of English in Education’ (Special issue), Changing English: Studies in Reading and Culture 18, 3.

Burgess, T., Ellis, V. & Roberts, S. (2010) ‘”How one learns to discourse”: Writing and abstraction in the work of James Moffett and James Britton’, Changing English: Studies in Reading and Culture 17,3: 261 – 274.

Ellis, V., Fox, C. & Street, B. eds. (2007) Rethinking English in Schools: Towards a New and Constructive Stage, London & New York: Continuum

Other Information:

My Department of Education web page 

Research Centre: Oxford Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research

College Website

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