8. Home and Abroad

Fadel Jobran-Alsawayfa is an Assistant Professor of Education at Bethlehem University, Palestine. He is a pedagogue and a poet. He is the Chairperson of the Early Childhood Education Department and the Coordinator of the Master’s Programme in Creative Pedagogies and Community Practices. He completed his Doctor of Education (EdD) at the University of Chester. Prior to the completion of the EdD, Fadel had attained an MA in Comparative Education from the Institute of Education, University of London. He teaches courses in drama in education, storytelling, theatre, play and creativity, arts-based research and creativity in practice. Jobran-Alsawayfa is interested in self-reflexive methodologies that allow individuals to narrate their stories and lived experience evocatively and authentically. He also hopes that poetic inquiry and drama performance will be widely adopted as creative pedagogies and arts-based research approaches, emphasising their potential to foster creativity and give voice to participants through the development of arts-based participatory research.