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Michelle Bedeker is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at Nazarbayev University. She holds a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy Studies, a Master's Degree in Education (Applied Linguistics/Language Education), a Bachelor of Education (Postgraduate) in Curriculum, Pedagogy, and School Leadership, and a Bachelor in Education (undergraduate) degree from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. From a global south perspective, she uses a critical postcolonial third space lens that sits outside western educational discourses because it opposes them, even as it is defined and influenced by their existence, to counter global-local binaries. As a result, her interest is in the notion of entanglement to reveal what Santos (2014) calls the silenced and invisible epistemologies in multilingual education and pedagogy. Her approved research grant titled "A Transformative Approach to CLIL pedagogy in Kazakhstan" deals with STEM teachers' sense-making of their classroom realities and local epistemologies to offer contextually-relevant disciplinary literacy and metalinguistic support they need in the Kazakhstani CLIL context.
Education/Academic qualification
Language Education, PhD: Language and Literacy, Exploring Habitus and Writer Identities: An ethnographic study of writer identity construction in the FET Phase at two schools in the Western Cape, University of the Western Cape
Award Date: Dec 20 2015
Language Education, Masters in Education, Testing the waters: exploring the teaching of genres in a Cape Flats Primary School in South Africa, University of the Western Cape
Award Date: Mar 20 2008
Education, Honors Degree, Education, curriculum and Pedagogy, University of the Western Cape
Award Date: Mar 15 2006
External positions
Assistant professor, Fatima College of Health Sciences
Jul 18 2017 → Dec 20 2019
Instructor, University of the Western Cape
Jan 1 2010 → Jun 30 2017
University of the Western Cape
Jun 1 2004 → Dec 31 2012
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From the periphery to the center? Creating a community of practice and scaffolding Kazakh graduate students’ scholarly voices and identities
Bedeker, M. & Kerimkulova, S., Jul 31 2024, (Accepted/In press) Exploring Academic Writing as Social Practice: Institutional Goals, Complexities and Responsive Pedagogies in Central Asia. Bedeker, M., Makoelle, T. & Manan, S. (eds.). Palgrave MacmillanResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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“I notice that I'm getting more involved, interested, and excited about my future topic.” Exploring Action Research to move from research steps to scholarly thinking.
Bedeker, M. & Kerimkulova, S., Jan 31 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of English for Academic Purposes.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A critical view of National Senior Certificate examination discourse and First Additional Language writing tests
Bedeker, M., Jul 17 2023, In: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. p. 1-16 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Covid 19 resulted in classrooms without walls: What can pedagogical and content knowledge (PCK) offer?
Bedeker, M., Mar 8 2023, In: Journal of Educators Online. 20, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Habitus Reimagined in Kazakhstani Higher Education: EMI as Third Space Encounters in Professional Learning Communities
Bedeker, M., Rocca, S. & Hwami, M., Dec 4 2023, (Submitted) In: Higher Education for the Future.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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'At school, I was on top of the game, and now I have to start all over again': South African student writer identities in transition
Michelle Bedeker (Invited speaker)
Jan 26 2016Activity: Participating in event › Participation in workshop, seminar
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Multilingualism at the crossroads
Michelle Bedeker (Speaker)
Apr 15 2015 → Apr 17 2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Bourdieu's Sociology of Education Seminar Series
Michelle Bedeker (Speaker)
Aug 16 2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Annual E-Learning Conference
Michelle Bedeker (Invited speaker)
Aug 2 2012Activity: Participating in event › Participation in workshop, seminar