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Making time: Knitting as temporal-material entanglement (2023)
Journal Article
Jones, S. (2024). Making time: Knitting as temporal-material entanglement. Journal of Material Culture, 29(1), 82-101. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835231206231

This article presents data from interviews with amateur knitters to explore the temporal-material entanglements which constitute meaning-making in everyday life, and the potential of thinking with knitting to better understand these entanglements. It... Read More about Making time: Knitting as temporal-material entanglement.

'Words of wisdom': text, voice and justice in I, Daniel Blake (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, S. (in press). 'Words of wisdom': text, voice and justice in I, Daniel Blake. Changing English, 24(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684X.2017.1298990

The film, I, Daniel Blake, has received critical acclaim for its portrayal of the experiences of those attempting to navigate the bureaucracy of the British welfare state system. In this article, I use the depiction of literacy in the film as a lens... Read More about 'Words of wisdom': text, voice and justice in I, Daniel Blake.

Telling stories: engaging critical literacy through urban legends in an English secondary school (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Chapman, K. (in press). Telling stories: engaging critical literacy through urban legends in an English secondary school. English Teaching: Practice & Critique, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1108/ETPC-02-2016-0031

Non-dominant voices have been further marginalised in the most recent National Curriculum in England (DfE 2014) and those working across the English teaching profession often find the subject framed according to narrow, assessment driven models and p... Read More about Telling stories: engaging critical literacy through urban legends in an English secondary school.

Making sense in the city: Dolly Parton, early reading and educational policy-making (2015)
Journal Article
Hall, C., & Jones, S. (2016). Making sense in the city: Dolly Parton, early reading and educational policy-making. Literacy, 50(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12069

In this paper, we present a case study of a philanthropic literacy initiative, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, a book-gifting scheme for under 5s, and consider the impact of the scheme on literacy policy in the English city where it was introduce... Read More about Making sense in the city: Dolly Parton, early reading and educational policy-making.

"He should have put them in the freezer": creating and connecting through shared reading (2015)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & Harvey, K. (2015). "He should have put them in the freezer": creating and connecting through shared reading. Journal of Arts and Communities, 7(3), https://doi.org/10.1386/jaac.7.3.153_1

Shared reading involves reading short stories, poems, novels and plays aloud with groups of people who meet in a range of settings. Readings are conducted by a facilitator, after which the group members share their responses to the texts. The social... Read More about "He should have put them in the freezer": creating and connecting through shared reading.

'How people read and write and they don't even notice': everyday lives and literacies on a Midlands council estate (2014)
Journal Article
Jones, S. (2014). 'How people read and write and they don't even notice': everyday lives and literacies on a Midlands council estate. Literacy, 48(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12030

This article presents data from a British Academy funded study of the everyday literacy practices of three families living on a predominantly white working class council housing estate on the edge of a Midlands city. The study explored, as one partic... Read More about 'How people read and write and they don't even notice': everyday lives and literacies on a Midlands council estate.

“How people read and write and they don't even notice”: everyday lives and literacies on a Midlands council estate (2014)
Journal Article
Jones, S. (2014). “How people read and write and they don't even notice”: everyday lives and literacies on a Midlands council estate. Literacy, 48(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12030

This article presents data from a British Academy-funded study of the everyday literacy practices of three families living on a predominantly white working-class council housing estate on the edge of a Midlands city. The study explored, as one partic... Read More about “How people read and write and they don't even notice”: everyday lives and literacies on a Midlands council estate.

‘It’s not what it looks like. I’m Santa’: connecting community through film (2014)
Journal Article
Jones, S., & McIntyre, J. (2014). ‘It’s not what it looks like. I’m Santa’: connecting community through film. Changing English, 21(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684X.2014.968348

The lived experiences of young people are becoming increasingly marginalised within the narrowly defined curricula of neoliberal contexts. Many young people are also cast within the media according to deficit discourses of youth, which contributes to... Read More about ‘It’s not what it looks like. I’m Santa’: connecting community through film.

Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning teachers of English in times of change (2013)
Journal Article
McIntyre, J., & Jones, S. (2014). Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning teachers of English in times of change. English in Education, 48(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/eie.12029

Beginning teachers of English are entering a profession in which their subject is increasingly framed according to prescriptive models of literacy. This is happening at a time of shift away from university ITE provision towards schoolled training. We... Read More about Possibility in impossibility?: working with beginning teachers of English in times of change.