"Coming, ready or not!": What Counts as Early Literacy?

A case of Intention Deficit Disorder? ICT policy, disadvantaged schools, and leaders

Boys, science and literacy: place-based masculinities, reading practices and the ‘science literate boy’

scientific article published on 16 September 2021

Collaborative inquiries into literacy, place and identity in changing, policy contexts

Critical Literacy Educators at Work

Critical Literacy and Social Justice

article by Barbara Comber published 22 December 2014 in Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

Critical Literacy in the Early Years: Emergence and Sustenance in an Age of Accountability

Critical Literacy: What Does it Look like in the Early Years?

Critical Theory and Literacy

Critical literacy: an introduction to Australian debates and perspectives

article

Critical reading comprehension in an era of accountability

Differential recognition of children's cultural practices in middle primary literacy classrooms

Editorial

Getting Out of Deficit: Pedagogies of reconnection

Getting the Big Picture: Regulating Knowledge in the Early Childhood Literacy Curriculum

Hanging out in the city of tomorrow: a participatory approach to researching the importance of music and the arts in the lifeworlds of young people

scientific article published in 2020

Introduction: critical discourse analysis, or life after the linguistic turn

Leading Literacies

Literacy Geography and Pedagogy

Literacy Learning: Designing and Enacting Inclusive Pedagogical Practices in Classrooms

Literacy Teacher Research in High-Poverty Schools: Why It Matters

article

Literacy and Imagination: Finding Space in a Crowded Curriculum

Literacy, Leading and Learning

Literacy, Place, and Pedagogies of Possibility

Literacy, Place-Based Pedagogies, and Social Justice

scholarly article published 2013

Literacy, poverty and schooling: what matters in young people's education?

Looking Beyond 'Skills' and 'Processes': Literacy as Social and Cultural Practices in Classrooms

Making Space for Place-Making Pedagogies: Stretching Normative Mandated Literacy Curriculum

Making a Difference: Early Career English Teachers Research Their Practice

Making documentaries and teaching about educational disadvantage: Ethical issues and practical dilemmas

Making use of theories about literacy and justice: teachers re-searching practice

article by Barbara Comber published March 2005 in Educational Action Research

Managerial Discourses: tracking the local effects on teachers'and students’ work in literacy lessons

Mandated literacy assessment and the reorganisation of teachers’ work: federal policy, local effects

Pedagogy as Work: Educating the Next Generation of Literacy Teachers

Poverty, place and pedagogy in education: research stories from front-line workers

Problematising ‘background’: (Re) constructing categories in educational research

REVIEW ESSAY

article

Redesigning school spaces

Researching for social justice: contextual, conceptual and methodological challenges

article by Robert Hattam et al published September 2009 in Discourse

Researching pedagogy in high poverty contexts: implications of non-representational ontology

Social Geography, Space, and Place in Education

Socio-economic disadvantage, literacy and social justice: Learning from longitudinal case study research

article by Barbara Comber & Sue Hill published December 2000 in Australian Educational Researcher

Space, Place, and Power: The Spatial Turn in Literacy Research

Spatial Literacies, Design Texts, and Emergent Pedagogies in Purposeful Literacy Curriculum

article by Barbara Comber & Helen Nixon published 7 October 2008 in Pedagogies: an international journal

Sustaining the Next Generation of Teacher-Researchers to Work for Social Justice

scholarly article

Teachers’ work and pedagogy in an era of accountability

The Politics of Quality Teacher Discourses: Implications for Pre-service Teachers in High Poverty Schools

The work of women teachers in primary literacy education: knowing and doing

Toward a Sociomaterial Understanding of Writing Experiences Incorporating Digital Technology in an Early Childhood Classroom

Turn-around pedagogies: improving the education of at-risk students

‘It’s not about punitive’: exploring how early-career teachers in high-poverty schools respond to critical incidents

‘We don’t read in science’: student perceptions of literacy and learning science in middle school

scientific article published on 14 January 2021