Adjunct Professor
Barbara Comber
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education
Personal details
Positions
- Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education
Keywords
action research, curriculum, ethnography, literacy, longitudinal studies, low socio-economic status, place-based pedagogy, social justice, teacher education, teachers's work
Discipline
Other Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Specialist Studies in Education
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Education) (James Cook Uni. I.A.E.)
Selected publications
- Comber B, Kamler B, (2004) Getting out of deficit: Pedagogies of reconnection, Teaching Education, 15 (3), pp. 293-310.
- Comber B, (2005) Making use of theories about literacy and justice: teachers re-searching practice, Educational Action Research, 13 (1), pp. 43-56.
- Comber B, (2007) The work of women teachers in primary literacy education: knowing and doing, English in Education, 41 (2), pp. 7-26.
- Comber B, Nixon H, (2008) Spatial literacies, design texts, and emergent pedagogies in purposeful literacy curriculum, Pedagogies, 3 (4), pp. 221-240.
- Nixon H, Comber B, (2009) Literacy, landscapes and learning in a primary classroom. In K Power, M Somerville & P de Carteret, Landscapes and learning: Place studies for a global world, Sense Publishers, pp. 119-138.
- Comber B, Kamler B, (2009) Sustaining the next generation of teacher-researchers to work for social justice. In SE Noffke & B Somekh, The SAGE handbook of educational action research, Sage Publications, pp. 226-237.
- Comber B, (2009) Critical literacies in place: Teachers who work for just and sustainable communities. In J Lavia & M Moore, Cross-cultural perspectives on policy and practice: Decolonizing community contexts, Taylor & Francis, pp. 43-57.
- Comber B, Kamler B, (2005) Turn-around pedagogies : literacy interventions for at-risk students, Primary English Teaching Association.
- Comber B, Nixon H, (2009) Teachers' work and pedagogy in an era of accountability, Discourse, 30 (3), pp. 333-345.
- Ashmore L, Loo S, Cook J, Comber B, Nixon H, (2006) Urban renewal from the inside out: Spatial and critical literacies in a low socioeconomic school community, Mind, Culture, and Activity, 13 (3), pp. 228-246.
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