Rosemary Sage

Rosemary Sage is a British professor of education with a focus on communication and special educational needs. She leads the programme for the practitioner doctorate (Ed.D.) at the University of Buckingham.

Career

Since 2008, Sage has taught at the College of Teachers (now The Chartered College of Teaching) and was dean of academic affairs until 2014. She worked at Liverpool Hope University in 2007, where she taught communication in education, and at the University of Leicester, where she was a senior lecturer. She has been a visiting professor at Nara Women's University in Japan and at the University of Havana in Cuba. Sage has been an outside examiner at several universities and has given key speeches at international conferences across the world. She has published 23 books and over 200 articles in international academic journals.

Sage is a speech and language pathologist, neuro-psychologist, psycholinguist and professor (English and maths). She has worked in health, education and social services and been a director of health services in Leicester/Leicestershire. She has also been a senior language advisor in LEAs. Her research has been in the area of communication, language, education and employment. Her communicative model of teaching has been translated into Japanese, French and German and has been taught in Japan, Cuba and Latin America, the Czech Republic, Poland, Finland, Latvia and Bulgaria. It has been reviewed by academics as one of the best researched models of teaching and learning with many attesting to the personal and academic development gained from the approach. (see Evaluation of The Communication Opportunity Group scheme (COGS) by Nelson and Burchell (1998) and an Evaluation of COGS by Cooper (2004).

Sage has served as the president of Human Communication International, as a member of Sir Michael Rutter's Advisory Committee on Language Research, as a member of the Research Committee of the British Stammering Association, and as an educational advisor to the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. She has also served as a trustee of the Association for Speech Impaired Children and of the Independent Panel for Education Advice. She is a member of the judiciary and served on the Lord Chancellor's training committee.

She was asked by the European Commission to lead a project on continual professional development and a practitioner doctorate was piloted at the College of Teachers to the acclaim of the evaluators. It is now considered as the leading model for doctorates for research within practice whilst the PhD remains popular for research on practice. Presently, Sage is a Director of the Learning for Life Learning Trust in Northamptonshire and a scientific advisor to international universities. She has been a professor at the College of Teachers and Liverpool.

Awards

She was awarded the Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship and Professorship. She has many international awards for the Communication Opportunity Group Strategy.

Selected publications

• The Communication Opportunity Group Scheme (2000)
• Class talk: Successful Learning through Effective Communication (2000)
• Helping Able and Less Able Students to Communicate in School (2002)
• Start Talking and Stop Misbehaving: Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (2002)
• Lend us your ears: listening and Learning (2003)
• Supporting Learning in Primary schools (2003)
• Silent Children (2004)
• A World of Difference: Tackling Inclusion in Schools (2004)
• The Communication Opportunity Group Scheme: Assessment and Teaching
• Supporting Language and Communication (2006)
• Meeting the Needs of Children with Diverse Backgrounds (2010)
• Education and Change: Education Today (2014)
• Education and Capitalism: Education Today (2014)

External links

• Page at College of Teachers website
• Page at the University of Leicester's School of Education website