Dr Caroline Dyer

Dr Caroline Dyer

Reader in Education in Development

A linguist by training and a South Asia specialist, I am interested in development practices in relation to the human right of education; community development; and impacts of development policies on pastoralist groups.

In India, I have researched and taught adult literacy on migration with pastoralists; used collaborative action research for professional development with teacher educators; researched literacies in primary school classrooms; investigated post-earthquake educational reconstruction. I recently assisted the Kenyan government in designing education by radio for mobile pastoralists.

Research Interests

Educational inclusion, exclusion, and adverse incorporation. I am particularly interested in links between education and social justice, and social development for pastoralists, Gypsy/Travellers, and socially marginalised, working and migrant children.

Teaching

At Master’s level, I teach core courses in Development Research, Development Management, Education in Development, and contribute to Global Inequalities.

At undergraduate level, I contribute to Contemporary Development Issues and teach Development Practice, a practical, applied module described by a student as: ‘where the rubber hits the road in development’.

My teaching is research-led, delivered through interactive approaches designed to maximise student opportunities to reflect on and share critical insights into development practices.

PhD Supervision

I welcome candidates with interests in education in development; socially situated literacies; education as a human right; community development; children as development actors; and decentralisation. Current supervisions include education and human rights in Senegal, and two studies of decentralisation and community development in Ghana. I have supervised to successful completion theses on democratisation in Oman; gender and micro enterprise in Cameroon, corruption in higher education in Thailand, volunteer teachers in Indonesia, and indigenous health knowledge in Cochabamba.

Key Publications

Books

• Sue Cox, Caroline Dyer, Anna Robinson-Pant and Michele Schweisfurth. (eds.) (2011)Children as Decision Makers in Education: Sharing Experiences Across Cultures.London: Continuum
• Dyer, C. (ed.) (2006) The Education of Nomadic Peoples:Current Issues, Future Prospects. Berghahn Books.

Working Papers

• Dyer, C. (2012) Formal education and pastoralism in western India: inclusion, or adverse incorporation? Compare 42, 2 pp. 259-282
• Dyer, C. (2009) Mobile pastoralists and education: strategic options (with S. Kratli) Working Paper no. 1. London: International Institute for Environment and. Development.
• Dyer, C. (2008) Chronic Poverty and Education: a review of literature (with P. Rose) Chronic Poverty Research Centre Working Paper No. 131.

Chapters in Books

• Dyer, C. (2009) Literacies and Discourses of Development among the Rabaris of Kutch, India. In K. Basu, B. Maddox and A. Robinson-Pant (eds.) Interdisciplinary approaches to Literacy and Development, published as a special issue of the Journal of Development Studies (2008) and as an edited volume (2009) Oxford: Routledge
• Dyer, C. (2009) Schooling and the Rabaris of Kachchh in India: The Need for Change in Danaher. In: P. et al (eds.) Traveller, Nomadic and Migrant Education. Oxford: Routledge.
• Dyer, C. (2007) Schooling and social reconstruction in North West England. In: Leach, F. and M. Dunne (eds.) Conflict and reconciliation: Education in the 21st Century, Peter Lang.

Journal Articles

• Dyer, C. (2010) Education and social (in)justice for mobile groups: re-framing rights and educational inclusion for Indian pastoralist children. In ‘Education and Global Justice’ Educational Review 62 (3) pp. 301 - 313.
• Dyer, C. (2008)Literacies and Discourses of Development among the Rabaris of Kutch, India. Journal of Development Studies. 44 (6) pp. 863-879, also published in Basu, K., B. Maddox and A. Robinson-Pant (eds.) Interdisciplinary approaches to Literacy and Development (2009) Oxford: Routledge.
• Dyer, C. (2008) Early Years Literacy in Indian Urban Schools: Structural, Social and Pedagogical Issues, Language and Education, 22 (5) 2008, pp.237-253.
• Dyer, C. (2007) Working children and educational inclusion in Yemen. International Journal of Educational Development, 27 (5), pp.512-524.

Recent Journal Special Issue

• Dyer, C. (2012 )Developing Education, Challenging Marginalisation. Special Issue ofCompare 2012 (42, 2 co–edited with Sheila Aikman).

Reports for External Bodies

• Dyer, C. and Choski, A. et al (2004) District Institutes of Education and Training: A Comparative Study in Three Indian States. Department for International Development, p.232.
  
  
  
  
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