Bob Lister - Former member of staff
Position/Status
Lecturer until September 2008
E-mail Address: rll20@cam.ac.uk
Qualifications
PGCE, MA
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
Association of University Teachers
Joint Association of Classical Teachers (Member of Council)
American Classical League
Profile
Bob Lister taught classics in comprehensive schools from 1976 to 1991. In 1991 he became a lecturer in the Faculty of Education (where he is responsible for the Classics PGCE course) and the Faculty of Classics (where he teaches primary Latin language courses). As Director of the Cambridge School Classics Project (CSCP) from 1996 to 2003, he was responsible for the Cambridge Latin Course, the most commonly used Latin course in maintained secondary schools.
He is a specialist in Classics education with particular interest in the changing nature of the Classics curriculum, language teaching methodology, the role of ICT in the teaching of classical languages and oral literacy. Since 2000 he has been working with two professional storytellers to develop an oral retelling of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for primary schools.
Academic Area/Links
Classics education at primary, secondary and tertiary levels
Oral literature and literacy in primary and secondary schools
Classics and ICT
Research Topics
Homeric epics and the development of oral literacy
High-level reading skills in the classical languages
Current Research Projects
Course Involvement
PGCE, subject lecturer responsible for Classics
(Classics BA in the Faculty of Classics)
Publications
War with Troy: The Story of Achilles, Teacher's Guide (with Grant Bage and Jennie Dunn), CSCP, 2004
War with Troy: The Story of Achilles - a Trojan Horse in the national curriculum? (with Grant Bage), JACT Journal of Classics Teaching, spring 2004
GCSE - time for reform, JACT Journal of Classics Teaching, autumn 2004
Classics in schools: time for reappraisal (again), CUCD Bulletin 33, 2004
'Hearing Homer's scream across three thousand years', Children's Literature in Education, vol. 36 no. 4, December 2005
(With Panos Seranis) 'Access to specialist knowledge through Information and Communications Technology: a case study', Journal of Teacher Development 9(1), 2005
'"Busting with blood and gore and full of passion": the impact of an oral retelling of the Iliad in the primary classroom', Literacy. Forthcoming, spring 2007
'Classics in transition', The Arts and Humanities in Higher Education. Forthcoming spring 2007
Changing Classics in Schools. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming summer 2007
Meeting the challenge: international perspectives on Latin (ed. Lister, B.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming spring 2008