Christine Hall

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Biography

Christine Hall is a Professor at the School of Education. She is Director of Postgraduate Courses and a member of the Centre for Literacy Studies

Chris taught English in comprehensive schools in London and Nottinghamshire. She worked at the Open University before taking up her post at the School of Education. From 1997 to 2003 she was Director of the PGCE course; since 2003 she has been Director of Initial Teacher Education, with oversight of all of the initial teacher training provision offered at the School of Education . She coordinates and teaches on Masters courses in Literacy and Literature.

She writes and publishes in all of these areas of interest. She was a co-director of the W H Smith Children's Reading Choices Project, a national survey into children's voluntary reading habits which is reported in a book co-authored with Martin Coles, Children's Reading Choices (Routledge, 1999). Recently she has co-directed an ESRC sponsored project on promoting social inclusion through the arts in a primary school (2004-6), and a teacher education project on self portraits and identity, sponsored by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (2005-6). With Mary Bailey and Nikki Gamble, she conducted an evaluation of the national Museums Libraries and Archives Council's Literature Matters initiative (2004-6), and with Andy Noyes, she researched self-evaluation systems and processes in local schools for Nottinghamshire Local Authority (2006). She is currently researching the impact of Creative Partnerships policy on school change, in an Arts Council sponsored project.

Chris is on the Editorial Boards of the journals English in Education; Literacy and The Journal of Reading, Writing and Literacy. She is a member of the national council of the UK Literacy Association and serves on UCET's Secondary Committee. She has acted as an examiner at the Universities of Warwick, Leeds and Reading and at the Institutes of Education in Hong Kong and Mauritius.

Research Summary

research interests are in children's reading, literacy, teaching and studying literature, multiculturalism and gender.

Current research projects:

Arts Council funded Investigation of the Impact of Creative Partnerships on School Change (2006-8), with Pat Thomson, Ken Jones and Nafsika Alexiadou

The Self Portraiture Project sponsored by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (2005-6), with Philip Hood

Recent Publications

• HALL, C, 2010. 'Creativity' in educational discourse and policy making in England, 1997-2010. World Englishes.
• HALL, C and JONES, K AND THOMSON, P, 2010. Snapshots, illustrations and portraits: looking again at presenting research findings. In: THOMSON, P, SEFTON-GREEN, J, eds. Researching Creative Learning. Routledge..
• HALL, C and THOMSON, P, 2010. Grounded literacies: listening to, telling and performing community stories. Literacy.
• HALL, C, 2009. Creativity and School Change. Teaching and Learning Update.

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Chris is a member of the Centre for Research in Schools and Communities. Her research supervision areas include:

• literacy learning
• english teaching
• literacy policy
• children's reading
• the arts and creativity
• teacher education and professional development

Research proposals: please email Chris if you would like to discuss the appropriateness of your research topic. See also: School of Education research supervision areas.

Past Research

Recently completed research projects:

ESRC RES-000-22-0834 (2004-2006) Promoting social and education inclusion through the creative arts, with Pat Thomson and Lisa Russell

Evaluation of Nottinghamshire Local Education Authority's Self Evaluation Framework and school-based quality assurance procedures (2005-6), with Andy Noyes

Evaluation of the national Museums Libraries and Archives Council/Arts Council Literature Matters policy, University of Nottingham / UK Literacy Association (2004-2006), with Mary Bailey and Nikki Gamble

Evaluation of the City of Nottingham's Academic Coaches initiative (2004-5), funded by the Learning and Skills Council on behalf of the North Nottingham School Improvement Board, with Bernadette Youens

• HALL, C, 2010. 'Creativity' in educational discourse and policy making in England, 1997-2010. World Englishes.
• HALL, C and JONES, K AND THOMSON, P, 2010. Snapshots, illustrations and portraits: looking again at presenting research findings. In: THOMSON, P, SEFTON-GREEN, J, eds. Researching Creative Learning. Routledge..
• HALL, C and THOMSON, P, 2010. Grounded literacies: listening to, telling and performing community stories. Literacy.
• HALL, C, 2009. Creativity and School Change. Teaching and Learning Update.
• HALL, C AND NOYES, A, 2009. School self-evaluation and its impact on teachers’ work in England. Research Papers in Education, 24(3), 311-334.
• HALL, C AND NOYES, A, 2009. New regimes of truth: The impact of performative school self evaluation systems on teachers' professional identities. Teaching and Teacher Education, 25(6), 850-856.
• JONES, S AND HALL, C, 2009. Creative Partners: Arts Practice and the Potential for Pupil Voice. Power and Education, 1(2).
• MOTTRAM, M AND HALL, C, 2009. Diversions and diversity: does the personalisation agenda offer real opportunities for taking children’s home literacies seriously?. English in Education, 13(2), 98-112.
• HALL, C, 2008. Review of Literacy and Gender: Researching Texts, Contexts and Readers by Gemma Moss. Literacy, 42(2), 118-9.
• HALL, C, 2008. Imagination and multimodality: reading, picture books and anxieties about childhood. In: SIPE, L AND PANTALEO, S, ed. Postmodern Picturebooks: Play, Parody and Self-Referentiality. London and New York: Routledge.
• THOMSON, P AND HALL, C, 2008. Opportunities missed and/or thwarted? “Funds of knowledge" meets the English National Curriculum. The Curriculum Journal, 19(2).
• THOMSON, P AND HALL, C, 2008. Dialogues with Artists: Analysing Children’s Self Portraits. In: Doing Visual Research with Children and Young People. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 240
• BAILEY, M., HALL, C. and GAMBLE, N., 2007. Promoting school libraries and schools library services: problems and partnerships. English in Education, 41(2), 71-85.
• HALL, C., THOMSON, P. and RUSSELL, L., 2007. Teaching like an artist: the pedagogic identities and practices of artists in schools. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 28(5), 605-619.
• HALL, C.J. and THOMSON, P.L., 2007. Creative partnerships?: cultural policy and inclusive arts practice in one primary school. British Educational Research Journal, 33(3), 315-329.
• HALL, C.J. and YOUENS, B., 2007. Re-forming the teaching work force: the case of the academic coach. Educational Review, 59(2), 161-178.
• THOMSON, P and HALL, C AND RUSSELL, L, 2007. If these walls could speak: reading displays of primary children’s work. Ethnography and Education, 2(3), 381-400.
• YOUNG, J., HALL, C.J. and CLARKE, A., 2007. Challenges to University Autonomy in Initial Teacher Education Programmes: The Cases of England, Manitoba and British Columbia. Teaching and Teacher Education, 23(2).
• HALL, C. J, 2006. Review of Making Literacy Real: Theories and Practices for Learning and Teaching by Larson J and Marsh J, in Literacy. 40(3).
• HALL, C.J., BAILEY, M., GAMBLE, N. and YATES, S., 2006. Evaluation Report on the implementation of the 'Literature Matters' policy in England.
• HALL, C.J. and NOYES, A., 2006. Report on the Nottinghamshire Self Evaluation Teaching and Learning Framework.
• SMITH, D. and HALL, C.J., 2006. Learning from teachers who have been avid readers. Journal of Reading, Writing and Literacy.
• THOMPSON, P and HALL, C., 2006. The chronotope and classroom writing. In: LAHTEENMAKI, M., DUFVA, H., LEPPANEN, S. AND VARIS, P., ed. Proceedings of the XII International Bakhtin Conference., University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. Department of Languages, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, pp. 375-382
• THOMSON, P.L., HALL, C. and RUSSELL, L., 2006. An arts project failed, censored or...? A critical incident approach to artist-school partnerships. Changing English, 13(1), 29-44.
• YOUENS, B. and HALL, C., 2006. Incorporating pupil perspectives in initial teacher education: lessons from the Pupil Mentor Project. Teacher Development, 10(2), 197-206.
• HALL, C.J. and THOMSON, P., 2005. Creative tensions? Creativity and basic skills in recent educational policy. English in Education, 39(3), 5-18.
• HALL, C.J. and YOUENS, B.N., 2005. Report on Academic Coaching in the City of Nottingham.
• HALL, C. and THOMPSON, P., 2004. `An evil spirit came out of my Nanna': children's use of popular cultural narrative forms in exploratory autobiographical classroom talk. Changing English, 11(2), 223-232.
• HALL, C.J., 2004. Report for the ESRC on Projects in the Knowledge, Communication and Learning Theme for the year 2003-4.
• HALL, C.J., 2004. Oceans Apart? Teaching and Teacher Preparation in Canada and the UK [online], 32.
• HALL, C.J., 2004. Theorising Changes in Teachers' Work [online], 32.
• HALL, C.J., 2004. The Cute, the Quaint and the Cuddly: Why Teach Children's Literature?. Crearta - International Journal of the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts, 41.
• HALL, C.J., 2004. Review of 'The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children's Literature'. British Journal of Educational Studies, 102-104.
• SCHULZ, R. and HALL, C., 2004. Difficulties in Promoting Inquiry in Teacher Education Partnerships: English and Canadian perspectives. Journal of Education for Teaching, 30(3), 255-270.
• THOMPSON, P. and HALL, C., 2004. How an understanding of Bakhtin's theory of the chronotope can assist progression in Classroom writing. English in Education, 38(1), 5-20.
• HALL, C. and SCHULZ, R., 2003. Tensions in Teaching and Teacher Education: professionalism and professionalisation in England and Canada. Compare, 33(3), 369-384.
• HALL, C. and THOMPSON, P., 2003. 'I can't think of anybody else that's behaved badder than him': rethinking autobiographical and identity work in English. Changing English, 10(1), 35-44.
• HALL, C.J., 2003. 'Children's Literature'. In: Children's Cultural Worlds. Open University Press, Buckingham, pp. 133-182pp
• COLES, M. and HALL, C., 2002. Gendered readings: learning from children's reading choices. Journal of Research in Reading, 25(1), 96-108.
• COLES, M. and HALL, C., 2001. Breaking the line: new literacies, postmodernism and the teaching of printed texts. Reading, 35(3), 111-114.
• HALL, C.J. and COLES, M.J., 2001. Boys, Books and Breaking Boundaries: developing literacy in and out of school. In: What about the boys?: issues of Msculinity in Schools. Open University Press, Buckingham.
• COLES, MARTIN, 1952- and HALL, CHRISTINE, 1999. Children's reading choices / Martin Coles and Christine Hall. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
• HALL, C.J. and COLES, M.J., 1999. Girls' Reading Matters. 21(Spring), 1-4.
• BAILEY, M. and HALL, C.J., 1998. Critical Reading at Post 16: Beloved.
• BAILEY, M. and HALL, C.J., 1998. Critical Reading at Post 16: Wuthering Heights.
• BROWNE, JANE, HALL, CHRISTINE and HAMLIN, MIKE, 1998. The new windmill book of stories from different genres / edited by Mike Hamlin, Christine Hall and Jane Browne. Oxford : Heinemann, 1998.
• COLES, MARTIN, 1952- and HALL, CHRISTINE, 1998. Breakthrough to literacy / Martin Coles and Christine Hall. Teacher's guide. Harlow : Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.
• COLES, M. and HALL, C., 1997. Taking comics seriously: children's periodical reading in England in the 1990s. Reading, 31(3), 50-54.
• COLES, M.J. and HALL, C., 1997. Building on Children's Reading Choices. In: Building a Literate Nation: the strategic agenda for literacy over the next five years. Trentham Books Ltd, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, pp. 17-22
• HALL, C., 1997. Breaking Boundaries: Women in Higher Education, Review article. Education Today, 47(2).
• HALL, C., 1997. Academic Women, Review article. Education Today, 47(4).
• HALL, C. and COLES, M., 1997. Gendered Readings: helping boys develop as critical readers. Gender and Education, 9(1), 61-68.
• HALL, C. and COLES, M., 1997. Children's Reading Choices: Questions of Quality. Use of English, 48(2), 134-148.
• HALL, C.J. and COLES, M.J., 1997. Children's Reading Choices: what boys do read. Gender and Education, 9(1), 61-68.