Barbara Comber

Barbara Comber is a key researcher in the Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures in the Hawke Research Institute at the University of South Australia. Her particular interests include literacy education and social justice, teachers' work and identities, place and space, and practitioner inquiry. She has worked collaboratively with teachers in high poverty locations focusing on innovative and critical curriculum and pedagogies that address contemporary social challenges. She has published two books: Literacies in Place: Teaching Environmental Communication (Comber, Nixon and Reid, 2007) and Turn-Around Pedagogies: Literacy interventions for at-risk students (Comber and Kamler 2005).