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D-Index
37
Citations
6012
World Ranking
6232
National Ranking
450

Overview

Barbara Comber is affiliated with the University of South Australia in Australia. Their research spans multiple areas within the social sciences and arts and humanities, with a focus on education, literacy, and sociocultural factors influencing learning.

The main fields of study in Barbara Comber's work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Arts and Humanities

Within these broad fields, the subfields extensively addressed are:

  • Education
  • Literature and Literary Theory
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Social Psychology

The research topics that appear most frequently in their publications cover:

  • Literacy, Media, and Education
  • Global Education and Multiculturalism
  • Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
  • Indigenous and Place-Based Education
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
  • Education Systems and Policy

Barbara Comber has authored or co-authored papers published in various reputable academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • British Educational Research Journal
  • Research Papers in Education
  • International Journal of Science Education
  • Australian Geographer
  • Journal of Curriculum Studies

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Barbara Comber include:

  • "Disrupting the 'boys don't read' discourse: Primary school boys who love reading fiction" (2020, British Educational Research Journal)
  • "Boys, science and literacy: place-based masculinities, reading practices and the 'science literate boy'" (2021, Research Papers in Education)
  • "How do rural Australian students' ethnogeographies related to people and place influence their STEM career aspirations?" (2021, International Journal of Science Education)
  • "Many truths, many knowledges, many forms of reason: Understanding middle-school student approaches to sources of information on the internet" (2023, British Educational Research Journal)
  • "Thinking spatially: a springboard to new possibilities" (2021, Australian Geographer)

Frequent collaborators in Barbara Comber's research include:

  • Sarah McDonald
  • Laura Scholes
  • Garth Stahl
  • Reece Mills
  • Joanne Brownlee

Best Publications

  • Getting Out of Deficit: Pedagogies of reconnection

    Barbara Comber;Barbara Kamler

  • Negotiating Critical Literacies in Classrooms.

    Barbara Comber;Anne Simpson

  • Critical Literacy as a Way of Being and Doing

    Vivian Maria Vasquez;Hilary Janks;Barbara Comber

  • Literacy, Place, and Pedagogies of Possibility

    Barbara Comber

  • Teachers' Work and Pedagogy in an Era of Accountability.

    Barbara Comber;Helen Nixon

  • Critical Literacy Finds a "Place": Writing and Social Action in a Low-Income Australian Grade 2/3 Classroom

    Barbara Comber;Patricia Thomson;Margaret Wells

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

    Barbara Comber

  • Turn-around pedagogies : literacy interventions for at-risk students

    Barbara Comber;Barbara Kamler

  • Interventions Early in School as a Means to Improve Higher Education Outcomes for Disadvantaged Students

    Trevor Gale;Robert Hattam;Barbara Comber;Deborah Tranter

  • Critical Literacy and Social Justice

    Barbara Comber

  • Making community texts objects of study

    Allan Luke;Jennifer O'Brien;Barbara Comber

  • Critical literacies and cultural studies

    A. Luke;B. Comber;H. Grant

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

    Barbara Comber

  • Critical Literacy: Power and Pleasure with Language in the Early Years

    Barbara Comber

  • Literacies in place : teaching environmental communications

    Barbara Comber;Helen Nixon;Jo-Anne Reid

  • Researching for social justice: contextual, conceptual and methodological challenges

    Robert Hattam;Marie Brennan;Lew Zipin;Barbara Comber

  • Urban Renewal from the inside out: Spatial and Critical Literacies in a Low Socioeconomic School Community.

    Barbara Comber;Helen Nixon;Louise Ashmore;Stephen Loo

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

    Barbara Comber;Sue Hill

  • Critical literacy across continents

    Hilary Janks;Barbara Comber

  • Interventions early in school as a means to improve higher education outcomes for disadvantaged (particularly low SES) students

    Trevor Gale;Sam Sellar;Stephen Parker;Robert Hattam

  • International Handbook of Research on Children's Literacy, Learning, and Culture

    Kathy Hall;Kathy Hall;Teresa Cremin;Teresa Cremin;Barbara Comber;Luis C. Moll

Frequent Co-Authors

Pat Thomson
Pat Thomson University of Nottingham
Allan Luke
Allan Luke Queensland University of Technology
Konstantin Matchev
Konstantin Matchev University of Alabama
P. Wittich
P. Wittich Cornell University
Guenakh Mitselmakher
Guenakh Mitselmakher University of Florida
Jacobo Konigsberg
Jacobo Konigsberg University of Florida

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