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EDUCATION CONSULTANT

Dr Mariam Attia is Senior Lecturer at Markfield institute of Higher Education and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has taught at universities in the UK and internationally and contributed to teacher and researcher development projects in Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Ghana, Nigeria, Cambodia, and Japan. Dr Attia holds a certificate in coaching and mentoring and is currently looking into classical epistemologies for internal growth and lasting transformation.

Dr Attia holds a certificate in coaching and mentoring and is currently looking into classical epistemologies for internal growth and lasting transformation.

Education

BA, Major: Political Science (International Relations), Minor: Psychology

MA, Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL)

PhD, Education

SFHEA

Dr Attia’s researching fields of interests are:

• Classical Islamic theories of education

• Classical Islamic institutions of education

• Teacher education

• Researcher development

• Reflective practice

Publications

Fassetta, G.,Al-Masri, N. Attia, M., & Phipps, A. (2020). Gaza teaches Arabic online: opportunities, challenges and ways forward. In: Fassetta, G., Al-Masri, N., andPhipps, A. (Eds.) Multilingual Online Academic Collaborations as Resistance: Crossing Impassable Borders. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

Fassetta,G., Imperiale, M. G., Frimberger, K., Attia,M. & Al-Masri, N. (2017). Online teacher training in a context for forced immobility: The case of Gaza, Palestine. European Education, 49(2-3), 33-150.

Attia, M. & Edge, J. (2017). Be(com)ing a reflexive researcher:A developmental approach to research methodology. Open Review of Educational research, 4(1), 33-45.

Edge, J. & Attia, M. (2016). Technology, communication, and collaboration for innovation. In T. Stewart. Team teaching and team learning: Collaboration for innovation in language classrooms. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Holmes, P., Fay, R., Andrews, J. & Attia, M. (2016). How to do research multilingually: Possibilities and complexities. In Z. Hua (Ed.), Research methods in intercultural communication: A practical guide. London: John Wiley & Sons.

Attia, M. (2014). The role of early learning experience in shaping teacher cognition and technology use. In P. Breen (Ed.), Cases onteacher identity, diversity, and cognition in Higher Education. Hershey, PA: IGI-Global.

Edge J. & Attia, M. (2014). Cooperative development: Anon-judgmental approach to individual development and increased collegiality. Actasde las VI y VII Jornadas Didácticas del Instituto Cervantes de Mánchester (2013- 2014) [Proceedings of the VI and VII Teaching Conference Cervantes Instituteof Manchester (2013-2014)], 65-73.

Holmes,P., Fay, R., Andrews, J. & Attia, M. (2013). Researching multilingually: New theoretical and methodological directions. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 23(3), 285-299.

LANGUAGE INSTRUCTOR

Having loved Classical myth, literature and history from an early age, I took a degree in Classics from Cambridge University.  

After ten years working in the publishing industry, I retrained as a teacher and now have over twenty years’ experience of teaching in a range of independent schools, academies and maintained schools and as a PGCE tutor and schools’ advisor.

I have worked in some very privileged communities but also in some of the most deprived in the country; and with every age group from Reception to Postgraduate.  

I draw on my wide experience to help me tailor my teaching to my students; alongside this, I keep up to date with research into how humans learn to ensure that all learning is as efficient as possible.  And underpinning everything is that passion for the Classics that led me to Cambridge all those years ago.