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Readers in the round: children’s holistic engagements with texts (2018)
Journal Article
Parry, B., & Taylor, L. (2018). Readers in the round: children’s holistic engagements with texts. Literacy, 52(2), 103-110. https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12143

In this paper we demonstrate the relationship between reading and writing for pleasure. Children read a wide range of media as well as books for pleasure and develop strong affective bonds with the artefacts of literacy they encounter. What remains... Read More about Readers in the round: children’s holistic engagements with texts.

Time travels in literacy and pedagogy: from script to screen (2016)
Book Chapter
Parry, B., Taylor, L., & Haerizadeh-Yazdi, N. (2016). Time travels in literacy and pedagogy: from script to screen. In B. Parry, C. Burnett, & G. Merchant (Eds.), Literacy, media, technology: past, present, future. Bloomsbury

Arts-based approaches to research with children: living with mess (2015)
Book Chapter
Parry, B. (2015). Arts-based approaches to research with children: living with mess. In D. Yamada-Rice, & E. Stirling (Eds.), Visual methods with children and young people: academics and visual industries in dialogue. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402295

After the emergence of a distinct sociology of childhood, methodological approaches to research with children have been particularly concerned to work ethically and meaningfully with them. In this volume, Elizabeth Wood (Chapter 9) takes us beyond th... Read More about Arts-based approaches to research with children: living with mess.

Popular culture, participation and progression in the literacy classroom (2014)
Journal Article
Parry, B. (2014). Popular culture, participation and progression in the literacy classroom. Literacy, 48(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12027

In this paper, I share an account of what happens when a teacher values children's experiences of popular culture in a classroom activity. Drawing on a socio-cultural approach to learning, I suggest that children are not simply enthused when their li... Read More about Popular culture, participation and progression in the literacy classroom.

Children, film and literacy (2013)
Book
Parry, B. (2013). Children, film and literacy. Palgrave Macmillan

Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and unfamiliar, fantasy and everyday narratives and this narr... Read More about Children, film and literacy.