About the event:

The inaugural session for the CWC’s E&E Online Seminar Series will be led by Prof. Amol Padwad, Former Professor & Director at the Centre for English Language Education, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi. Prof. Padwad will give participants an overview of his chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Language Teacher Education (2024). He will discuss various conceptions of difficult circumstances (DC) and how they interact with action research (AR) pertaining to English Language Teaching. This will be followed by an open floor where the participants will get to discuss the reading directly with its author.

About the speaker:

Prof. Amol Padwad has been a teacher, trainer, teacher community leader and ELT consultant through a career spanning over 40 years, formally ending as the Professor & Director, Centre for English Language Education, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi. He is the President of the AINET Association of English Teachers (India) and a Trustee of A. S. Hornby Educational Trust, UK. His professional interests include teacher development, teacher communities, history of English language education, decentring ELT, translation studies and Marathi grammar. Currently he is leading research and archival work on the history of English language education in colonial India and a project on decentring ELT. His key publications include EMI in South Asia: Issues in Equity and Social Justice and Equity, Social Justice and EMI: Case Studies from South and Southeast Asia (both with Ram Giri & M. N. Kabir), CPD: Lessons from India (with Rod Bolitho), Teaching in Low Resource Classrooms: Voices of Experience (with Richard Smith and Deborah Bullock), and Decentring ELT: Practices and Possibilities (with Richard Smith).

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