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Dr Marie Charles initially taught as a primary classroom teacher before moving into pedagogical research and teacher education. With a career spanning over 30 years, she has taught across the range from young children to adults in Higher Education Institutions in the UK, USA (North Carolina, California, New York), United Arab Emirates, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Armenia and Canada. Dr Charles is a specialist in modelling in classroom situations the range of formative teaching methodologies including guided group working, the use of differentiation and the development of learner autonomy.
Dr Charles has published extensively in international peer reviewed journals and is the co-author of a trilogy of research-based books on formative teaching based on multimodalities and multiliteracies. Dr Charles is also the Director of the Missing Faces In Teaching (MFIT) Organisation which gathers and publishes research-based programmes to empower the learner and facilitator/teacher. She is also the founder of the Missing Faces in Teaching Magazine/Journal which gathers and publishes evidence of corrective history through decoloniality.
Marie Charles has a doctorate in Cultural Studies and Humanities with a special focus on curriculum writing and reconceptualised a curriculum programme called ‘Reframed Units of Change (RUoCs) in 2019 and was published in the Journal of Black Studies (SAGE). She has also designed, developed and delivered workshops for the UK Teachers’ Union on the themes of ‘racial’ diversity, systems of classification and power; the school-to-prison-pipeline and myth making to myth-breaking all within a socio-cultural-historical framework.
Dr Charles has developed a teaching programme around the Genesis of Geometry which is linked to our Af ra kan –Af– flesh; ra– hidden sun; ka-soul, ‘flesh and soul of the hidden sun’- (Queen Afua, 2000, p.11.Baba Heru, 2020), origins and the subsequent migrations out of Afraka, with a focus on the material culture that our ancestors, conceived, developed and sustained over many millennia. MFIT exists to hear the agency of those who are reacting and responding in such a way; that we want them to know that these dominant structures are always contingent, tentative, provisional, and therefore, can be TRANSFORMED. The restoration of SELF beyond the wall and trauma of slavery as the starting point of identity is corrected through the presentation of hidden history. How was it possible for such huge estates to be in the possession of a population of people who were NOT indigenous to Baratanac [Britain]? Dr Charles is the founder of McKelly Books and the latest book: Decolonizing the Curriculum: Pathways to Empowerment for Children, Parents and Teachers– is now available at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
MFIT have launched their new Magazine: Missing Faces In Teaching- What Your School Will Never Teach You. Issue # 1 available November 2020; Issue #2 available January 2021 from Amazon; Issue #3 available March 2021; Issue # 4 available June 2021; Issue # 5 available August 2021; Issue # 6; available January 2022; Issue # 7 available March 2022; Issue # 8 available May 2022; Issue # 9 available July 2022; Issue # 10 available October 2022; Issue # 11 available December 2022; Issue # 12 available March 2023; Issue # 13 available June 2023; Issue # 14 available October 2023; Issue # 15 available February 2024; Issue # 16 available May 2024; Issue # 17 available August 2024; Issue # 18 available November 2024; Dictionary of FBB Surnames available March 2025; Dictionary of Foundational Black British Surnames: PART TWO available June 2025
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Launch of new Dictionary of Foundational Black British Surnames, the people, places and their primacy: Part One.
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ISSUE # 18 NOW AVAILBLE ON AMAZON…
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Issue # 18 evidences the light as a powerful illumination of the founding populations of Suffolk as the Engles/Angles of Engelland who migrated onto these shores with their kinfolk from Germany. They became the Abbots and Nuns of the region who set up the first Centres of Learning which then seeded the original schools and then Universities of the nation. The German kinfolk or lineage of the Suffolk or Sufi folk is just one strand of their ancient origin as there have been multiple migrations from other geographical directions such as the Iberian peninsular. This issue provides for the first time the optics of this lineage.
The Sutton Hoo artfacts from Suffolk have been restored to their correct lineage through the methodologies of an Africana phenomenological analysis through First Sight Consciousness (FSC), capturing their esoteric teachings of foundational Black populations from France and Germany.
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Issue # 15 evidences that southern Baratanac/Britain (Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Cornwall, Isle of Wight, Sussex, Hampshire, Kent & the Channel Islands) were originally Black. Issue # 15 evidences for the first time, the Black Norman William the Conqueror & his sons ‘Rufus’ and Henry I. Issue # 15 evidences for the first time, the foundational Black British origins of Alfred the Great & his progeny.
Issue # 14 locates Africa as the source of signs and heraldry with over 400 recorded original surnames of FBBs. https://www.amazon.co.uk/School-Never-Teach-school-never/dp/B0CK3HL4R6/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1696347286&sr=8-1
In this issue you will learn about the sacred dragon in Scotland & all over Europe, and its African source as veneration of the Great Mother. In tracing the dragon you will discover that King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table were deeply Melanated nobles. This issue also traces the sacred geometry encoded on European heraldic crests as African in origin.
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Part four of ancient Alban/Scotland- discover the original Black rulers and traditional African crowning ceremonies. In this issue the importance of Dark Matter and epigenetics provides another gateway for true al-khemical transformation.
This issue is part one of ancient Scotland:https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0B6XMWHJC?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_6&storeType=ebooks&qid=1675958331&sr=8-1&asin=B0B6XMWHJC&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
This issue is part two of ancient Scotland: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BHGBG755?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tpbk_7&storeType=ebooks&qid=1675958331&sr=8-1&asin=B0BHGBG755&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
This issue is part 3 of ancient Scotland. Learn about the ancient Black Bans of Alban and discover why Scotia is NOT the ‘Mother of all Scots’.
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This issue traces the cultural continuities of Old Europe: Black in origin & traditions.
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Issue # 5: https://www.amazon.co.uk/MFIT-Magazine-Moorish-Decolonizing-Curriculum/dp/B09C18YGBX
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Professor Bill Boyle– Master Pedagogist.
Professor Bill Boyle has had a 45 year career in transforming sustainable education for stakeholders across the range of national and international. Initially as a classroom teacher, school leader and Local Authority Adviser; then, since 1989, as the Director of an internationally reputed Centre for Formative Assessment Studies (CFAS) in the School of Education, University of Manchester. Professor Boyle is currently supplying international education systems analysis and design for curriculum, teaching, learning and assessment.
Professor Boyle was co-founder of the Centre for Formative Assessment Studies [CFAS] at University of Manchester’s School of Education in 1989. CFAS is the oldest established centre for research and development in formative teaching, learning and assessment in the UK. During his time as Director of CFAS, Professor Boyle developed a range of Masters’ programmes in teaching, learning & assessment and worked alongside thousands of schools in England as Director of the UK government’s Qualifications & Curriculum Authority [QCA] School Sampling Project and Monitoring the Curriculum & Assessment longitudinal research projects [1996 – 2007]. He also extended CFAS’s work into international formative assessment consultancy, undertaking design & development work with over 40 countries, from Early Years to Higher Education phases.
Professor Boyle worked with the UK government’s national assessment team from 1989 until 2009, developing and critically evaluating assessment tasks/items for Primary & secondary school pupils. He was Director of the national consultation with schools for the National Curriculum 2000 revisions and supplied longitudinal, large scale, assessment system evidence for the UK government’s Parliamentary Select Committee report on the National Curriculum and its Assessment [2008-9).
Queen Afua (2000) Sacred Woman: A guide to healing the feminine body, mind, and spirit. One World, Ballantine Books, New York, USA.
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