Ed JOYCEY has been appointed as a Foreign Language Instructor of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 1995, where he teaches at undergraduate level and on INSET teacher-training courses run by the department. He holds a B.Sc. in Physics, Mathematics and Statistics from the University of London, a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (P.G.C.E.) from the Institute of Education, University of London, a Royal Society of Arts(R.S.A.) Diploma in the Teaching of English to Multicultural Groups, an M.Ed.(with TESOL) from the University of Leeds and a Ph.D. on Lifelong Learning and EFL teaching from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has held teaching and administrative posts both in schools in the U.K. and for the British Council Teaching Centre, Thessaloniki, where he worked as a teacher and trainer from 1977 to 1995. He has also worked on Teacher-training courses in the U.K., attended and participated in many conferences, written many articles, and is an assessor for the Cambridge-ESOL Dip TEFLA (Diploma in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language to Adults), a post-graduate diploma for teachers of EFL. His interests revolve around helping prospective teachers learn about and cope with the different decisions they will have to make, integrating all aspects of a lesson and the effect of holding a lifelong-learning stance towards teaching and training.
