I primarily teach on the PGCE Secondary (QTS) and the QTS / PGCE School Based courses, working as the subject leader for English.
Mr Sam Holdstock
Senior Lecturer in Secondary ITE
School of Teacher Education
I am a Senior Lecturer in Secondary Initial Teacher Education, and I am the subject leader for English.
Having previously taught for one year at the University of Limoges in France and for almost 8 years as a secondary school English teacher in the UK, I joined CCCU in 2024.
'I am interested in research questions that relate to literacy, pedagogy, classroom talk, creative writing, poetry and educational resourcing.
My PhD research explores the possibilities for Interactive Fiction in the secondary school English classroom, and a list of my recent publications can be found here: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=svy_kIwAAAAJ
I am a member of the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE), the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE), the Chartered College of Teaching and the United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA).
- Creative writing and autoethnography: A layered approach to exploring positionality Holdstock, S., (27 Mar 2024): Routledge, Taylor and Francis. [Journal article]
- Ok class, SLANT Holdstock, S., (25 Jun 2024): Routledge. [Journal article]
- Using interactive fiction to stimulate metalinguistic talk in the English classroom Holdstock, S., (14 Aug 2023): Wiley. [Journal article]
- Producing a Frankentext Holdstock, S.: National Association of Writers in Education. [Journal article]
- The dialogic possibilities for interactive fiction in the secondary academy English classroom Holdstock, S., (12 May 2021): Routledge. [Journal article]