Joan Barbara Travers Simon
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Post-doc University of Luxembourg
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Research topics: multilingual literacy development at home and school
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Before Joan Travers became post-doctoral-research assistant at the research unit LCMI of the University of Luxembourg in 2009, she completed a PhD in children’s plurilingual literacy development and practice at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.
She has worked as a language teacher for twenty years and taught at teacher training college in Strasbourg, France, prior to taking up her current position. Her research activities take place within a sociocultural paradigm which seeks to foreground the active role of children in their own situated cognitive development. In her focus upon the child as a practitioner rather than as an apprentice, she illuminates the multidimensional, intertextual aspects of literacy as social practice, particularly within non-institutional contexts. The child is not a cognitive isolate, thus the significant role of other social actors also constitutes an area of research. Joan Travers is keen to disseminate research findings to the multiple audiences implicated in children’s education. To this end, she has also rewritten her thesis as a trilingual educational children’s book. Her activities in Luxembourg build upon these areas of research, placing them in a new cultural context.
last modified:27 Apr 2011
