Richard Andrews
Visiting Professor in English Education
Phone: 011 44 207 612 6524
Email: ra80@nyu.edu and r.andrews@ioe.ac.uk
Richard Andrews' research focuses on writing within multimodality; argumentation at school and higher education levels; English as a school subject (especially the development of writing); and theories and methodologies for researching e-learning. He took up the Professorship in English in the Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy at London's Institute of Education in October 2007, having previously held chairs at Middlesex, Hull and York universities in the UK. As Visiting Professor at Steinhardt, his teaching is in theories of language use in the classroom and active approaches to English. He has written and edited numerous books on argumentation, e-learning and literacy development. His most recently published work is the Sage Handbook of E-learning Research (2007) edited with Caroline Haythornthwaite of The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is a Visiting Research Fellow. He is on the editorial boards of the journals Learning, Media & Technology (UK); Argumentation (the Netherlands); Informal Logic (Canada); English in Australia; and Educational Research Review; and is one of the series editors for the Cambridge School Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press), for which he is currently revising the edition of As You Like It. He has taught in schools in England and Hong Kong, and on the New York City Writing Project. His first degree was from Oxford; his doctorate from The University of Hull in 1992.
Richard is one of the co-editors for a newly commissioned international Handbook of English, Language and Literacy Education, to be published by Routledge in 2009.
He has also written the research rationale for a new approach to the teaching of writing for the Uk government, designed to close the achievement gap between reading and writing, and to help all students improve their writing capabilities and skills. See:
Andrews, R. (2007) Shifting Writing Practice: focusing on the productive skills to improve quality and standards in Improving Pupils’ Writing, London: Department for Children, Schools and Families, 4-21
Recent publications
Andrews, R. and Haythornthwaite, C. (Eds.) (2007) Handbook of E-learning Research, London: Sage, 544 pp
Haythornthwaite, C., Andrews, R., Bruce, B.C., Kazmer, M.M., Montague, R-A., & Preston, C. (2007) ‘New theories and models of and for online learning’. First Monday (Chicago-based online peer reviewed journal) 12:8 (August 2007) http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/haythorn/
Andrews, R. (2007) ‘Argumentation, critical thinking and the postgraduate dissertation’. Educational Review 59:1, 1-18
Andrews, R., McGuinn, N., Dan, H., Freeman, A., Zhu, D. and Robinson, A. (2007) ‘The effectiveness of ICTs in the teaching and learning of English, 5-16’. British Journal of Educational Technology, 38:2, 325-336
Andrews, R., Torgerson, C., Beverton, S., Freeman, A., Locke, T., Low, G., Robinson, A, Zhu, D. (2006) ‘The effect of grammar teaching on writing development’. British Educational Research Journal 32:1, 39-55
Andrews, R., Harlen, W. (2006) ‘Issues in synthesizing research in education’. Educational Research 48:3, 298-299