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I have been fielding some inquiries recently about how one might go about structuring a Master’s thesis. This is what I came up with: Initial material Abstract: One to two pages (max) describing the research focus, a brief overview of…

The following propositions reflect work in progress. They represent a kind of conceptual framework for the development of teacher professional learning in relation to disciplinary literacy. A discipline is a scholarly meaning-making tradition with its own characteristic procedures/methods and typical…

Some years ago now, I wrote a book entitled Resisting qualifications reforms in New Zealand: The English Study Design as constructive dissent. I notice that it’s still available from Sense Publishers. The book reports on the biggest action research project I ever led,…

I’d like to share here my understandings of critical literacy. Anyone Googling the term will realise that there is a wealth of material out there. The first thing to note is that critical literacy is a way of responding to…

When you hear someone say that they don’t like being criticised, they are likely to be associating the word with the act of “finding fault with”, often accompanied by an intention to hurt or humiliate. This is how the word…