Person

Bamkin, Sam

1980

Sam Bamkin is Visiting Lecturer in Intercultural Communication, continuing to teach communication in business and professional contexts in the Leicester Castle Business School (2013-present). He is also Visiting Research Scholar in the Curriculum Research Center at Tokyo Gakugei University, and previously Senior Lecturer in Education at De Montfort University (2013-2018). Sam is broadly interested in learning, culture and policy from practical and comparative perspectives. On the BA Education Studies, he led modules in radical educations and language learning; and established the module Global Comparative Education, supervising regular field trips to study educational settings in Japan. He wrote numerous modules on the MSc Intercultural Business Communication for Leicester Castle Business School, where he continues to teach, with some dissertation supervision. His research interests include Japanese education; Moral education; Comparative Education (East Asia, UK); Radical educations; innovative teaching and learning; language and cognition; epistemology; critical theory; Japanese and East Asian perspectives.