Paulette Joyce Feraria

Paulette Feraria holds four post-graduate degrees with specialized study in English Language Education, English Literature, Literacy Studies and the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages. She is the 1997 British Council John Hornby Scholar for Latin America and the Caribbean and the 2006 nominee with High Commendation in The University of the West Indies/ Guardian Life Premium Award for Excellence in Teaching. More recently she received The Vice Chancellor’s Best Practice Award for Academic Content and Quality in the Caribbean and Latin America. She is an outstanding writer of Language Arts textbooks at the secondary and primary levels and consultant curriculum writer for various language and literacy curricula including adult literacy. Dr Feraria is known for her innovative teaching and intervention programmes on radio and television. She is the Founder and Director of the Media in Education Centre for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and Professional Learning Community for the Scholarship of English Language Teaching and learning (SoELTL), School of Education The University of the West Indies Jamaica where she currently lectures in post graduate studies in Language, Literature and Literacy Education and is pioneering the scholarship of post-method inquiry in the Caribbean. Dr Feraria is passionate about teaching and the mentoring of classroom teachers as researchers.