Associate Professor Kerryn Dixon
Honorary Associate Professor
School of Education
Book
Dixon, Kerryn (2011). Literacy, power, and the schooled body: Learning in time and space. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203851487
Book Chapters
Dixon, Kerryn and Dornbrack, Jacqui (2016). Dead-lines: Teachers’ bureaucratic habitus and disciplinary writing in three South African schools. Literacies, Learning, and the Body: Putting Theory and Research into Pedagogical Practice. (pp. 236-251) New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315695631
Dixon, Kerryn and Janks, Hilary (2010). From poster to PhD: The evolution of a literature review. The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor's Companion: Supporting Effective Research in Education and the Social Sciences. (pp. 51-65) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203851760
Journal Articles
Walton, Elizabeth and Dixon, Kerryn (2020). Googling inclusive education: a critical visual analysis. Discourse, 1-14. doi: 10.1080/01596306.2020.1819203
Walton, Elizabeth, McIntyre, Joanna, Awidi, Salome Joy, De Wet-Billings, Nicole, Dixon, Kerryn, Madziva, Roda, Monk, David, Nyoni, Chamunogwa, Thondhlana, Juliet and Wedekind, Volker (2020). Compounded exclusion: Education for disabled refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa. Frontiers in Education, 5 47. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2020.00047
Biesman-Simons, Claire, Dixon, Kerryn, Pretorius, Elizabeth and Reed, Yvonne (2020). Pitfalls and possibilities in literacy research: a review of South African literacy studies, 2004-2018. Reading and Writing , 11 (1) a238. doi: 10.4102/RW.V11I1.238
Fleisch, Brahm and Dixon, Kerryn (2019). Identifying mechanisms of change in the Early Grade Reading Study in South Africa. South African Journal of Education, 39 (3) 1696, 1-12. doi: 10.15700/saje.v39n3a1696
Dixon, Kerryn, Janks, Hilary, Botha, Debbie, Earle, Katarina, Poo, Manono, Oldacre, Fiona, Pather, Kamala and Schneider, Kerri-Lee (2018). A critical analysis of CAPS for life skills in the foundation phase (Grades R-3). Journal of Education (71), 6-23. doi: 10.17159/2520-9868/i71a01
Mendelowitz, Belinda and Dixon, Kerryn (2016). Risky writing: Working with a heteroglossic pedagogy to deepen pre-service teachers' learning. Perspectives in Education, 34 (1), 120-134. doi: 10.18820/2519593X/pie.v34i1.9
Dixon, Kerryn, Excell, Lorayne and Linington, Vivien (2014). "We are workshopped": problematising foundation phase teachers' identity constructions. South African Journal of Childhood Education, 4 (1), 139-155. doi: 10.4102/sajce.v4i1.60
Dornbrack, Jacqui and Dixon, Kerryn (2014). Towards a more explicit writing pedagogy: the complexity of teaching argumentative writing. Reading and Writing: journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 5 (1). doi: 10.4102/rw.v5i1.40
Dixon, Kerryn (2013). A Change of Perspective: Seeing Through Children at the Front of the Classroom, to Seeing Children from the Back of the Classroom. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 32 (3), 273-284. doi: 10.1007/s11217-012-9347-y
Dixon, Kerryn, Excell, Lorayne, Linington, Vivien, Mathews, Corin, Mduli, Manono and Motilal, Geeta (2012). Strengthening foundation phase teacher education through mentoring. South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2 (1), 33-49.
Dixon, Kerryn, Janks, Hilary, Reed, Yvonne and Walden, Susan (2011). Building a community of critical researchers: regenerating the academy. Journal of Education (52), 185-203.
Dixon, Kerryn and Dornbrack, Jacqui (2010). 'They said we were the Impossibles': how a detention system in an ex Model C school works to create racial and gender divides. Journal of Education (48), 37-54.
Dixon, Kerryn (2009). Producing literate subjects? Using the spatial and temporal as lenses to examine early literacy classrooms. Journal of Education (47), 31-54.
Dixon, Kerryn and Peake, Kathleen (2008). "Straight for English": Using school language policy to resist multilingualism. English Teaching, 7 (1), 73-90.
Dixon, Kerryn and Peake, Kathleen (2008). "Straight for English": Using school language policy to resist multilingualism. English Teaching-Practice and Critique, 7 (1), 73-90.
Dixon, Kerryn (2007). A space to write: The construction of the writing subject in early schooling. English Academy Review, 24 (2), 85-101. doi: 10.1080/10131750701452329