Dr Mutuota Kigotho
Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Education
Qualifications
BEd (University of Nairobi, Kenya), MEd (Kenyatta University, Kenya), EDD (Macquarie University)
Contact
| Email: | mkigotho@une.edu.au |
| Room: | FEHPS (E7) 242 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3829 (or +61 2 6773 3829 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3878 |
Mutuota specializes in English and Literacy Education and is a member of the Centre of Research in English and Multiliteracies (CREME).
Affiliations
ETA - English Teachers Association
ALEA - Australian Literacy Educators’ Association
Areas of Teaching
Literacy Education
Secondary English
Research interests
The teaching and assessment of writing, the teaching of African languages and literature.
Other interests include TESOL and Indigenous Education.
Research Publications
Literacy: From recount to writing in true narrative (Conference publications 2007).
From implicit to explicit: Literacy and the oral narrative within ESL Classrooms (Conference publications 2006).
The teaching of narratives (Conference publications 2004).
Doctoral Thesis: The Structure of Kikuyu Oral Narratives and its Relationship to the Teaching of Writing in Kenyan Secondary Schools (2004).