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Biography
Dr Ruth Koro is Associate Professor in Education at the University of Nottingham.
Following a diverse career in Modern Languages teaching and Leadership in secondary schools in England, Ruth joined the School of Education in September 2016. She currently leads the Schools and Society programme on the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Secondary), supporting beginning teachers explore their professional identity and wider role in promoting Education for social justice - as well as leading the PGCEi Valencia cohort. Ruth is also the Digital Lead for the Initial Teacher Education Directorate, and is the lead Admissions tutor for the PGCE in Modern Languages, a course on which she teaches and tutors the next generation of language educators.
Ruth also works on a range of other courses in the School of Education, and supervises students' MA Dissertations - as well as engaging with educators locally and internationally through a range of events and contributions.
Expertise Summary
Ruth has a particular interest in innovative curriculum models and in curriculum design, in particular those approaches enabling the integration of language and culture. She successfully completed her thesis on the role that an intercultural model of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), exploring content through the lens of culture, can play to develop secondary language learners' intercultural understanding and to enhance their motivation for language learning.
Ruth is also interested in the way in which beginning teachers develop their professional identity, and in the dispositions they need to become effective, informed educators, able to support inclusive practices and promote social justice in education.
Teaching Summary
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PGCE Secondary Schools and Society Lead
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Lecturer and tutor on the PGCE Secondary/Modern Languages Education
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Cohort Leader and tutor for the PGCEi Valencia cohort
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MA in Education - Dissertation Supervisor
Research Summary
Ruth has a particular interest in innovative curriculum models and in curriculum design, in particular those approaches enabling the integration of language and culture. She successfully completed… read more
Recent Publications
KORO, R, 2022. The transformative value of the intercultural CLIL language classroom: Towards a framework for the integration of culture and content in the Modern Languages classroom. In: World CLIL 2022, The Hague.
KORO, R, 2021. Promoting intercultural understanding and global competence in schools. In: ITE Conference, University of Nottingham.
KORO, R, 2021. There is content in language already! Redefining content and language integration through the (inter)cultural lens. In: AILA (International Association of Applied Linguistics) 2021 Congress, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Current Research
Ruth has a particular interest in innovative curriculum models and in curriculum design, in particular those approaches enabling the integration of language and culture. She successfully completed her thesis on the role that an intercultural model of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), exploring content through the lens of culture, can play to develop secondary language learners' intercultural understanding and to enhance their motivation for language learning. She is currently working on a collaborative research project with colleagues and local language educators, the Culture and Language Integrated Classrooms (CLiC) project, to co-design/adapt curriculum content and design a pupil assessment portfolio which integrates linguistic and cultural learning goals/objectives.
Ruth is also interested in the way in which beginning teachers develop their professional identity, and in the dispositions they need to become effective, informed educators, able to support inclusive practices and promote social justice in education. She is currently leading a research project on developing teacher dispositions through a scenario-based approach, exploring the importance of preparing trainee teachers for their wider professional role in schools and society.