Dr Nic Fryer

Senior Lecturer in Education

Nic Fryer
  • School Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education

  • Department Education

  • Location London

Research activities

  • Creative education
  • Group work
  • Reflective practice
  • Drama, theatre and performance education
  • Applied theatre
  • Devised theatre and devising pedagogy
  • Performance philosophy and the philosophy of Jacques Rancière

  • Current Teaching

    Nic is Course Leader of the MAEducation and the BA Learning and Teaching.  He is currently Module Leaderfor the following modules:

    ·       ELT3014Education Research Project

    ·       ELT3012Learning Without Limits

    ·       EDU4002Social Pedagogy

    ·       EDU4006Creative and Experimental Pedagogies

     

    He also teaches on/has taught on the following modules:

    ·       PsychologicalApproaches to Learning

    ·       Equity,Diversity and Inclusion in Educational Contexts

    ·       Psychologyof Learning in Higher Education

    ·       Peerand Team Coaching in Higher Education

    ·       UnderstandingBehaviour

    ·       SpecialEducational Needs and Disabilities

    ·       CurriculumStudies 1

    ·       InclusivePractices


    Biography

    Nic is a lecturer, teacher and theatre director.  He has taught in a range of educational settings, including working in drama departments in universities for fifteen years and secondary schools for thirteen years, where he led one of the largest Drama cohorts in the UK.  Nic has won various awards for his teaching and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  He founded the award winning Small Change Theatre, whose productions Long Wave, Red Velvet and Making the Difference amongst others have toured nationally to a range of venues including BAC, Latitude Festival and Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

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