‘Other’ Voices in Education—(Re)Stor(y)ing Stories Stories as Analytical Tool

Carmen Blyth completed her PhD on international schools, teaching, and governance at the University of Cape Town and was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Decolonizing Early Childhood Discourses research project at the same university. She has worked with international schools and universities in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for over 30 years as a teacher, teacher trainer, and department founder. She currently enjoys mentoring PhD and IB Diploma candidates and has a special interest in the links between linguistic diversity and biodiversity, and the rights of other language speakers in institutions where English is the medium of instruction. Her publications include a monograph on ethics in international schools: storytelling and autoethnography published with Palgrave Macmillan, an edited volume on the power of stories in children’s lives, journal contributions that engage with posthumanism, as well as book chapters on methodology and syllabus design. She holds a BSc (Hons)in Pure and Applied Physics.