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Vijayavarathan, R. (2022). Teacher challenges in Faroese Compulsory Schools during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Support from School Leaders. Faroese Scientific Journal  

Vijayavarathan-K, R. (2022). The core-peripheral belief dynamic and its impact on teaching speaking in English as a foreign language (EFL) in grade 8 in the Faroe Islands. Faroese Scientific Journal

Vijayavarathan-R, K. (2023). Policy equity contexts in inclusive education for immigrant children in The Faroe Islands in Beaton, M.C., Hirshberg, D. and Turunen, T. Education, Equity and Inclusion: Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable North. Springer, Netherlands.

Vijayavarathan-R, K. and Óskarsdóttir, E. (2023). Analysis of policies supporting teachers to tackle linguistic and cultural diversity and facilitate inclusion from the perspectives of Iceland and The Faroe Islands in Beaton, M.C., Hirshberg, D. and Turunen, T. Education, Equity and Inclusion: Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable North. Springer, Netherlands.

Vijayavarathan-R, K. (2021). Equity in Education for the Circumpolar North. The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis, Spring 2021, 47(1), 104. https://journals.library.mun.ca/ojs/index.php/mwatch/article/view/2263/1797

Vijayavarathan-R, K. (2021). Professional Inclusion of a Native Foreigner: a quasi-personal uphill journey, Fjolnir, pp. 70. https://www.mfs.fo/professinal-inclusion-of-a-native-foreigner.

Vijayavarathan-R, K. (2021). School Leadership Challenges in Faroese Compulsory Schools During the COVID-19 Crisis. Faroese Scientific Journal, [S.l.], pp. 5-35. Doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.18602/fsj.v0i0.126

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Teacher Cognition

English Language Teaching (ELT) and Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)

Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Acquisition

Assessment and Feedback

Classroom Management

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

Teacher self-efficacy and Motivation

Inclusive education

Teachers and teaching

Equity & social justice in education

Course instructor for M.Sc. Leadership and Management 2021-2025 at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Course instructor for Postgraduate Diploma in Faroese as an Additional Language 2021-2022.

Course Leader for "University Learning & Teaching" (Setursnámsfrøði) Co-designed and conducting the pedagogy course for colleagues –  Nov 2019-20.

Taught the gymnasium teachers at the General Pedagogy Course “Classroom Management” and “Assessment & Feedback”. Sept 24 & 25, 2019.

Designed and taught the elective course, "Teaching of English as a Foreign Language" in NÁD: 2011-2012, 2013-2014 & 2017-2018 to present. 

Designed and conducted a course for teachers “Teaching of Spoken English in English as a Foreign Language Teaching”. Nám, Jan 9 & 10, 2018.

Designed and conducted a course for ‘Lærugreinadagur í enskum’ for teachers on “Teaching materials: teacher, learner and materials.” Nám, Jan 19, 2017.

Designed and taught an ELT course for Higher Secondary Teachers (gymnasium) through ‘Nám’. February 2014.

Designed and taught courses in English for the banking staff, nurses and medical secretaries. 2000.

Taught the Cambridge English Courses FCE, CAE & CPE at the University from 1994-97.

Taught English at the Torshavnar Evening School from 1993-1996

Assistant Professor in English in Women’s Christian College, affiliated to the University of Madras, in the period 1986-89.

1. Whisper of Butterfly Wings- Anthology of poems (2020)