Colin Harrison’s personal web pages
Here you can explore my publications and recent activity
Welcome!
Here is a link to a list of my scholarly publications, in reverse date order.
___________________________________Click here to download my report for the European Commission on how to teach reading across Europe____________________________
Click on this link learn more about my YA (Young Adult) novel Questionlesse he will be dead.
It’s had some great reviews from young teen readers, as well as adults. Marilyn Brocklehurst (perhaps the most celebrated children’s librarian in England, and director of the Norfolk Children’s Book Centre) said ” I loved the detail, I was intrigued by the magic and thought it was really original. I rarely read anything that I think is worth publishing!”
It’s also attracting attention in the USA: apparently it’s likely to be banned in at least 25 states, because of its themes of anti-racism, magic, spells, witches, animal cruelty, and the threat of deadly violence!
Here are some links to my videos:
My plenary address to the Reading Association of Russia, November 2020 (53 minutes- only the first two minutes are in Russian!)
Defining Dyslexia (7 mins)
Here are some links to some of my recent PowerPoint presentations:
C-CALL 2024 https://colinharrison.org/colin-harrisons-talkat-c-call-2024-beijing/4, Beijing
Conceptual tools for evaluating Critical Digital Literacy. FELA conference Crete 2024
(Re-)Defining Critical Digital Literacy and Capturing It in Real Time: A high-school discourse analysis. Literacy Research Association, Atlanta, 2023.
“You don’t know whether it’s all true”: using a critical literacy perspective to develop a taxonomy of UK school students’ judgments when searching the internet. INTED Conference, Valencia, Spain, 2023.
How should we judge the quality of students’ Internet search activity? A review of research Slideshare: (INTED 2020, Valencia)
Nine Stretegies for Enhancing Critical Internet Literacy Slideshare: (UKLA, 2019, Sheffield)
Some of my recent activity:
- INTED2020 ValenciaI managed to get to Valencia for INTED2020 on 1 March, before the lockdown! A really interesting conference (with 500 presenters from 30 countries), especially because of the high number of presenters from Russia, Latvia, and other Eastern European countries.Continue reading “INTED2020 Valencia”
- Here’s a link to my Expert Page in the ELINET siteELINET stands for the European Literacy Policy Network, a group of senior literacy and technology researchers from over twenty countries. The site has links to dozens of examples of good practice and pedagogy, from all over Europe.
- Afflerbach and Harrison (2017)How is engagement different from motivation? Here’s a link to the short paper in which Peter Afflerbach and I try to answer this important question: https://colinharrison.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/a11f9-jaal-engagement-afflerbach-and-harrison-2017.pdf
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