Research Interests
- "New" and changing literacies in the 21st century
- Literacy and popular culture
- Critical Literacy
- Reader response
- Responding to issues through children’s literature
- Process writing and interactive writing with primary children
- Creative links between art, visual literacy and talk
- Play and Digital Culture – responding to moving image texts
- Art, visual literacy and talk
Research group membership
Member of ESRC funded research seminar group, Children’s Literacy and Popular Culture, organized by Jackie Marsh and Elaine Millard
2002 - 2004
The University of Sheffield
ESRC funded seminar series
Member of ESRC funded research group on Play, Creativity and Digital Literacies, organized by Muriel Robinson and Rebekah Willett
2005 - 2007
The University of London, Institute of Education and Bishop Grosseteste College, Lincoln
letsgetdigitalplay.blogspot.com
Editorial boards
Janet currently serves on the editorial board of the following two academic journals:
The Journal of Early Childhood Literacy
ecl.sagepub.com
Language Arts - The Journal of the Elementary Section of the National Council of Teachers of English
www.ncte.org
Research scholarships
1994 - Hewitt/Driver Education Trust Scholarship
Research into bilingual teaching in Tucson, Arizona, USA
1995 - English Speaking Union/ Walter Hines Page Scholarship
Research into whole language teaching in the USA