Dr 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 (2020). Formative assessment in a teacher education course: supporting teachers to teach critical literacy to young children. Handbook of Research on Formative Assessment in Pre-K Through Elementary Classrooms. (pp. 71-88) Hershey, PA United States: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0323-2.ch004
Compton-Lilly, Catherine, Dixon, Kerryn, Janks, Hilary and Woods, Annette (2020). Summative literacy assessments and how they imagine children : an international comparison. Handbook of research on formative assessment in Pre-K through elementary classrooms. (pp. 368-390) Hershey, PA., United States of America: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0323-2.ch018
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
Murris, Karin, Scott, Fiona, Stjerne Thomsen, Bo, Dixon, Kerryn, Giorza, Theresa, Peers, Joanne and Lawrence, Chanique (2022). Researching digital inequalities in children’s play with technology in South Africa. Learning, Media and Technology, 1-14. doi: 10.1080/17439884.2022.2095570
Walton, Elizabeth and Dixon, Kerryn (2020). Googling inclusive education: a critical visual analysis. Discourse, 43 (2), 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