All Outputs (30)

Children’s human rights and anti-racism in education: Contrasting approaches in Sweden and England and the challenges of empowering children’s voices (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper critically examines intersections of children’s human rights education and antiracist pedagogy in primary schools, exploring contrasting approaches in Sweden and England. Both contexts embrace human rights as a guiding principle: implement... Read More about Children’s human rights and anti-racism in education: Contrasting approaches in Sweden and England and the challenges of empowering children’s voices.

Local history - Teaching tolerance in the primary classroom (2025)
Journal Article

Putting Social Justice and Equity at the Heart of Reading for Pleasure (2025)
Book

This essential book discusses what reading for pleasure is and what it is not, introducing some fundamental ideas about how we learn to read and how this process can impact on a child’s identity as a reader in classrooms that promote equality, inclus... Read More about Putting Social Justice and Equity at the Heart of Reading for Pleasure.

Preservice teachers learning to teach reading using one-to-one tutoring: Does learning 'stick' for tutees and tutors? (2025)
Journal Article

Teaching reading is a key element of initial teacher education programmes in England. This study contributes to the research about the most effective way to ensure preservice teachers have the necessary skills and knowledge to teach reading. One-to-o... Read More about Preservice teachers learning to teach reading using one-to-one tutoring: Does learning 'stick' for tutees and tutors?.

Preservice teachers learning to teach reading using one-to-one tutoring: Does learning ‘stick’ for tutees and tutors? (2025)
Journal Article

Teaching reading is a key element of initial teacher education programmes in England. This study contributes to the research about the most effective way to ensure preservice teachers have the necessary skills and knowledge to teach reading. One-to-o... Read More about Preservice teachers learning to teach reading using one-to-one tutoring: Does learning ‘stick’ for tutees and tutors?.

The impact of the initial teacher education reaccreditation process on teacher educator identity (2024)
Journal Article

This article reports initial findings from a research project that focused on the impact of the reaccreditation process and its outcomes on teacher educators in four institutions in England where Qualified Teacher Status accreditation was removed, de... Read More about The impact of the initial teacher education reaccreditation process on teacher educator identity.

Literacy and the Sustainable Development Goals (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

At a time of climate and ecological emergency, the importance of evaluating approaches to enhancing children’s eco-literacy cannot be overstated. This symposium explores UN’s Sustainable Development Goals 14 and 15 which relate to the protection of l... Read More about Literacy and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Citizenship in the context of European values: Recommendations for teaching in higher education (2024)
Report

This publication reflects the work of CitEdEV (Citizenship Education in the Context of European Values), a Jean Monnet Network funded by the European Commission and Charles University, Prague. It aims to provide guidance to those teaching in higher e... Read More about Citizenship in the context of European values: Recommendations for teaching in higher education.

Traces of tolerance in European history: A student-oriented and educational approach (2024)
Report

This chapter and working group report is part of the outcomes of an Erasmus Plus funded project: Citizenship Education in the Context of European Values.
The teacher support materials found in this book are based on the work of an interdisciplinary... Read More about Traces of tolerance in European history: A student-oriented and educational approach.

The pleasure of reading against: Embedding lifelong critical literacy from picturebooks to social media (2024)
Book Chapter

In almost all children’s literature somebody lies. Harry Potter is told by the Dursleys that his parents died in a car accident, Lyra believes Lord Asriel to be her uncle, and countless narrators in picturebooks contradict, at some level, the images... Read More about The pleasure of reading against: Embedding lifelong critical literacy from picturebooks to social media.

Reading for Science: The use of scientific literary materials in primary schools (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Scientific literary materials (SLMs) present science content in genres such as narratives and poems as well as traditional non-fiction genres. SLMs have the potential to engage children and teachers who are non-science enthusiasts or specialists wit... Read More about Reading for Science: The use of scientific literary materials in primary schools.

A systematic review of the effectiveness of reading comprehension interventions in the South African multilingual context (2024)
Journal Article

International comparative measures show that South Africa has extremely low standards in reading. A variety of programmes aimed at boosting reading have been developed, however, the effectiveness of these programmes is unclear. Prior reviews of effec... Read More about A systematic review of the effectiveness of reading comprehension interventions in the South African multilingual context.

‘It's like a compass which I use to find direction’: Findings and learning from an evaluation of an App designed to support the teaching of reading comprehension in rural and township schools in South Africa (2024)
Journal Article

South Africa has low literacy levels and teachers face multiple challenges in their endeavours to elevate levels of literacy. This is especially prevalent in rural and township schools where teachers face the additional challenges of isolation, limit... Read More about ‘It's like a compass which I use to find direction’: Findings and learning from an evaluation of an App designed to support the teaching of reading comprehension in rural and township schools in South Africa.

Drawing on community knowledge to engage diverse communities with their children's learning (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Minoritsed groups are not always comfortable engaging with schools through the traditional approaches used (Moll et al., 1992). Without the engagement and inclusion of all groups, mistrust and conflict is given the space to grow. We also know that be... Read More about Drawing on community knowledge to engage diverse communities with their children's learning.

Vocabulary development (2023)
Book Chapter

The chapter focuses on the importance of vocabulary knowledge in both the teaching and learning of reading and writing. It provides the theory that underpins practice, curriculum links, case studies and practical ideas for teaching.
The book is a g... Read More about Vocabulary development.

Somali 'influencers' in and beyond a school community using funds of knowledge to influence family and children's reading engagement (2022)
Journal Article

Identifying approaches to enable traditionally ‘hard to reach’ children and families engage with book choice, book sharing and reading, has been an area for research and development for some years. Ensuring families have access to books is an essenti... Read More about Somali 'influencers' in and beyond a school community using funds of knowledge to influence family and children's reading engagement.

Using community ‘influencers’ to spread the message about book browsing, borrowing and chatting: “I don’t know why we didn’t do this before!” (2022)
Journal Article

This article reports on a collaborative project between a school, the University of the West of England and Community Researchers seeking to reach into the community to encourage family engagement with the school library through the use of school and... Read More about Using community ‘influencers’ to spread the message about book browsing, borrowing and chatting: “I don’t know why we didn’t do this before!”.

Supporting preservice teachers to become informed teachers of reading through one-to-one tutoring in an English initial teacher education setting (2021)
Journal Article

Training preservice teachers as teachers of reading is a complex task, as is reading itself. Preservice teachers need to understand the theory that underpins practice; the cognitive skills and knowledge required to read and the contextual factors tha... Read More about Supporting preservice teachers to become informed teachers of reading through one-to-one tutoring in an English initial teacher education setting.

Adapting one-to-one reading support for children during Covid-19 school closures BERA SGF report August 2021 (2021)
Report

Learning to read is considered a key priority in primary schools, but when Covid-19 forced school closures from March to July 2020 new approaches to teaching reading needed to be developed. This study
considers three sets of data gathered from schoo... Read More about Adapting one-to-one reading support for children during Covid-19 school closures BERA SGF report August 2021.

Difference as an essential teacher in a Them-Us international context: Pre-service teachers’ reflections on a university township teaching project (2021)
Journal Article

This article explores data from a group of British pre-service teachers (PST) following a teaching programme in South Africa. Their reflections are analysed in relation to assertions that such intercultural programmes do little to change hegemonic be... Read More about Difference as an essential teacher in a Them-Us international context: Pre-service teachers’ reflections on a university township teaching project.