Maria Nayr de Pinho Correia Ibrahim

Associate Professor

Faculty of Education and Arts

nayr.d.ibrahim@nord.no

Phone

75 51 73 59

Office

Bodø, Hovedbygning E306

Areas of expertise

Children's and youth literature, Children and youth, Early Childhood Education, Organized research training (doctoral programme), Primary and secondary school teacher education, Language didactics, Language and communication, English Language, Identity

Nayr Correia Ibrahim is Associate Professor of English Subject Pedagogy in the Department of English at Nord University. She has over 25 years of experience in English and bilingual education as teacher, teacher trainer, materials writer, manager and researcher. Originally from South Africa she has worked in Portugal, Cairo, Hong Kong and 20 years in Paris, where she headed the Young Learner and Bilingual Section at the British Council.

Her publication, Teaching children how to learn, Delta Publishing, with Gail Ellis, won an award at the 2016 ESU English Language Awards in the category, Resources for Teachers. She contributed to a project on the EU's policy on multilingualism, reviewing the Key Competencies for Life Long Learning, and was invited as Associate Partner for the ELL project, Inspiring language learning in the early years, at the ECML in Graz. Nayr is a member of the Nord Research Group for Children's Literature in ELT.

Nayr's interests include early language learning, bi/multilingualism, multiple literacies, language and identity, children's literature, learning to learn and children's voices.

Education:

2017 PhD (Trilingual, Triliteracy, Identity), University of Reading

2007 MA (TEFL), University of Reading

1992 CELTA, IH Lisbon

1987 BA (Honours) French and Portuguese Language and Literature

English 1A ENG1003 1-7 English Subject Pedagogy

English 1B ENG1004 1-7 English Subject Pedagogy

KfK SP160L 5-10 grades English Subject Pedagogy

ENG5002 1-10 grades Literacy, diversity and intercultural citizenship in the English language classroom

At the moment Nayr is researching visual and creative methodologies in researching and teaching multilngualism with children and teachers, using objects/artefacts, language maps, language silhouettes

Nayr is the local coordinator for the Erasmus+ project, ICEPELL, Intercultural Citizenship Education in Primary English Language Learning and is organising the ICEPELL Symposium 2021 on 7 & 8 June 2021.

Nayr is participating in the NOTED project ELLiL, English Language and Literature - In-depth Learning

Nayr is participating in the first part of the CANOPY project,

2022

Examining a Northern Sámi-Norwegian dual language picturebook in English language education through a critical translingual-transcultural lens 2022, Intercultural Communication Education: Volum 5 s. 105-124;de Pinho Correia Ibrahim, Maria Nayr

Teacher perspectives on addressing environmental issues in ELT 2022, ELT Journal: Volum ccac039 s. 1-14;Mercer, Sarah; de Pinho Correia Ibrahim, Maria Nayr; Bilsborough, Katherine; Jones, Ceri; Potzinger, Chiara

Visual and Artefactual Approaches in Engaging Teachers with Multilingualism: Creating DLCs in Pre-Service Teacher Education 2022, Languages: Volum 7 s. 1-22;de Pinho Correia Ibrahim, Maria Nayr

Mainstreaming Multilingualism in Education: An Eight-D’s Framework Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Teaching Foreign Languages in Multilingual Settings: Pedagogical Implications 2022, Multilingual Matters: s. 30-46;de Pinho Correia Ibrahim, Maria Nayr

2021

Teachers' Image of the Child in an ELT Context Ethical and Methodological Issues in Researching Young Language Learners in School Contexts 2021, Multilingual Matters: s. 185-205;Ellis, Gail; de Pinho Correia Ibrahim, Maria Nayr

Artefactual Narratives of Multilingual Identity: Methodological and Ethical Considerations in Researching Children Ethical and Methodological Issues in Researching Young Language Learners in School Contexts 2021, Multilingual Matters: s. 126-146;de Pinho Correia Ibrahim, Maria Nayr

Using metaphor elicitation with pre-primary children learning English 2021, ELT Journal: Volum 75 s. 256-266;Ellis, Gail; de Pinho Correia Ibrahim, Maria Nayr

2020