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- Senior Lecturer in Development Education
- IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment
- UCL Institute of Education
Dr Nicole Blum is a Senior Lecturer and an Associate Director of the Development Education Research Centre. Her PhD research (Anthropology; University of Sussex) explored diverse forms of engagement with environmental learning and sustainable development in a rural mountain community in Costa Rica. Her research interests also include: pedagogy and approaches to global learning, global citizenship education, education for sustainable development, climate change and education, online learning, internationalisation and global perspectives in higher education, and the ethnography of education. She has worked and conducted research in Costa Rica, Guatemala, India, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Personal country knowledge
- Costa Rica (environmental education; sustainable development; community development; ethnography)
- UK (development education; global learning; environmental education; global perspectives in higher education; internationalisation)
- India (small, rural schools; access to primary education; Education for All)
- Guatemala (ecotourism; international development)
Languages spoken
- Spanish
I am particularly keen to work with research students who have an interest in pedagogy and approaches to global learning, education for sustainable development (including education and climate change) and global citizenship education. These themes and concepts can be interpreted in a number of ways and in a range of settings (schools, higher education, communities), and I would welcome proposals which seek to explore them in diverse national or social contexts or from new research perspectives.