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= Michael Grenfell =

Michael James Grenfell (born 1953) is an English academic, musician and writer.

Education
Grenfell was educated in Bristol and originally trained as a Medical Scientific Officer. He then studied French at the University of London. He also took a post-graduate Masters degree in Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck College and a PhD in the Philosophy of Education at the University of Southampton, UK.

Career
Grenfell worked in Secondary Schools in London in the 1980s before moving to the University of Southampton in 1989, where he worked as Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Education.

In 2008, he was appointed 1904 Chair of Education at Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland.

He is now Professor Emeritus at Southampton, Honorary Professor at Trinity College, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, Australia.

He has held a number of positions in a range of academic and government-based committees:


 * Chair of the Research Committee of UCET (University Council for the Education of Teachers);
 * Member of the Teacher Education Committee of CILT (Centre for Language Teaching and Research);
 * Member of the government working group: The Tomorrow Project;
 * External assessor to the EU for research funding.

Research
Grenfell has three principal areas of research:


 * Language Teacher Education;
 * Language Teaching and Learning: Language Learning Strategies;
 * The work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu.

Language Teacher Education
His doctoral thesis was on a phenomenological study of language teacher education. He also co-directed two cross-European research projects for the European Union on setting a benchmark for language teacher education. He co-wrote the European Profile for Language Teacher Education: A Frame of Reference (2004), which has since been used across Europe in the design and implementation of Language Teacher Education. He acted as government adviser on teacher training for the Key Stage 3 Language Learning Strategy.

Language Teaching and Learning: Language Learning Strategies
He researched and published extensively on Second Language Acquisition with special reference to Communicative Language Teacher and Language Learning Strategies. In the 1980s, he was a key player in the development of the new National Curriculum for Modern Languages in the UK and in the 1990s he advised the government on its implementation. His work on Learning Strategies was used as the basis for the NCC Key Stage 3 Strategy in Modern Languages (2002).

The work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu
Grenfell first met Pierre Bourdieu in 1981 and remained a close associate with him until his death in 2002. He was three times Visiting Scholar at the École des Hautes Études and the Centre de Sociologie Européenne in Paris. He is also on the editorial committee of the journal Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales. He collaborated with Bourdieu on various projects and has written extensively on the application of his method to: education, language/ linguistics, philosophy, art, literature, music, sport, culture, reflexivity and ethnography.

Arts and music
Grenfell has an extensive record of involvement in the arts, music and literature:

He is an acknowledged specialist on the life and work of the British poet William Blake; in particular with respects to links with Gnosticism. He was a co-founder of the Blake Society at St James in the 1980s and acted as their Press and Publicity Officer. He has also edited The Blake Journal since 1995.

He has written for a range of music magazines, mostly about folk and world music: Blues Unlimited, Time Out, Folk Roots, and Guitar Magazine.

He has written a biography of the British folk singer Ralph McTell - Parallel Lives: the Biographies of Ralph McTell

Since 1997, he has undertaken extensive work as student, mentor and teacher within the Guitar Craft/Guitar Circle organisation founded by the rock guitarist Robert Fripp of King Crimson.

He has also worked on comparative and continuous education courses for groups following the educational philosophy of the author and teacher J. G. Bennett.

Selected Works

 * (with M. Kelly & D. Jones) The European Language Teacher. Peter Lang, 2003.
 * (with M. Kelly) The European Profile for Language Teacher Education: A Frame of Reference. LLAS: Southampton, 2004.
 * Pierre Bourdieu: Agent Provocateur. Continuum, 2004.
 * (with C. Hardy) Art Rules: Pierre Bourdieu and the Visual Arts. Berg, 2007.
 * Pierre Bourdieu: Education and Training. Continuum, 2007.
 * El tractament integrat de les llengües. Graó, 2010.
 * Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics. Continuum, 2011.
 * (with B. Street, J. Rowsell, K. Pahl, D. Bloome, C. Hardy) Language, Ethnography, & Education. Routledge, 2011.
 * Pierre Bourdieu (Key Concepts). 2nd Edition. Routledge, 2014.
 * Pierre Bourdieu: Bloomsbury Library of Educational Thought. Bloomsbury, 2014.
 * Parallel Lives: The Biographies of Ralph McTell. 2nd Edition. Pomera, 2017.
 * (with V. Harris) Language Learner Strategies. . Bloomsbury, 2017.
 * (with K. Pahl), Bourdieu, Language-based Ethnography and Reflexivity. Routledge, 2019.