The ECR Journey: At Crossroads of Becoming
On this 2nd ECR Annual Conference we continued to celebrate the ECR journeys and welcomed educational researchers and practitioners to join us in Leeds. This year’s conference was anchored on...
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Caroline Godfrey, Ms
PhD student at Aston University
Caroline Godfrey is a PhD student at Aston University. Having been an English teacher for 13 years, her current research deliberately intersects the fields of English Education and Applied Linguistics, principally using metaphor studies as a way to explore the conceptualisation of school subject English at the level of policy and within the language of practising teachers. Caroline is interested in the diverse applications of systematic metaphor analysis and the variety of issues that affect the way that English is taught in the classroom today.
Caroline Godfrey's contributions
An ideological wolf lurking in the metaphorical sheep’s clothing? The importance of metaphor analysis in English education
In the current era of regulation and regimentation, English teachers’ sense of professionalism is constrained by their ‘policy’ identities (Ball, 2003). Their sense of subject exists within...
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