Griselda Beacon
Griselda Beacon is a teacher educator specialising in literature, creativity, and the arts in English language education. She holds an MA in English and American Literature and German as a Foreign Language from Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, and has over 25 years of experience in teacher education and primary curriculum development.
Her approach to English language education embraces pedagogies of creativity and inclusion through the lens of intercultural education. She mainly works with active methodologies and is passionate about storytelling and creative, hands-on literary projects with schools. She regularly delivers storytelling sessions, bringing literature to life with a creative twist. She has shared her expertise as an in-service teacher trainer and curriculum developer across Latin America, Europe, North Africa, and Asia.
Griselda is the co-author of Together (Oxford University Press, 2018), an English coursebook series tailor-made for secondary schools in Argentina; co-editor of International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT (Palgrave, 2021); and co-editor of Queer Studies in English Language Education (Brill, 2025).
She has taught courses on Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Creativity, Drama Techniques, Contemporary Literature in English, and Play, Music, Dance & Literature in Pre-Primary Education at state-run teacher training colleges in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She currently lectures on American Literature at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), works as a teacher trainer at ESSARP (English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate), and is a consultant trainer for NILE - Norwich Institute for Language Education, and TELT - English Language Teaching Consultancy, in the UK.
Griselda is a regular presenter at conferences and teacher development events and is the founder and director of Beacon and Company, Storytelling in Action, a project that shares stories and picturebooks with children and families in schools, bookshops, and libraries. Getting lost among the shelves of a bookshop, surrounded by children’s picturebooks, is her favourite pastime.