Barbara Comber

Prof Barbara Comber

School of Education

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Science

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Barbara Comber is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Education.Barbara has collaborated on and conducted a number of competitively funded research projects concerned with literacy development, teaching and socioeconomic disadvantage.She has developed or contributed to language and literacy teacher education materials in a number of Australian states, the US and Canada.She has authored a book, edited numerous books and published many articles and chapters for teachers and teacher educators on critical literacy, teachers' work and social justice.Her current research focusses on mothers' engagement with homework and critical literacy in everyday life.

Current and Recent Projects

Co-Chief Investigator with Annette Woods & Lisa Kervin (University of Wollongong), Learning to write: A socio-material analysis of text production, ARC Discovery DP150101240 2015-2017

Co-Investigator with Dr Margaret Kettle, Dr Susan Creagh (UQ) and Dr Jennifer Alford, How long does it take to achieve academically in a second language? Investigating variables that impact academic outcomes for ESL learners in Queensland primary and secondary schools, Office of Educational Research Seed Funding Grant, Faculty of Education, 2015-2016

Co-Chief Investigator with Bruce Burnett, Jo Lampert & Lutz Hoff & Angela Ferguson, Exceptional teachers for disadvantaged schools: A longitudinal study of graduates at work in low socio- economic status schools, ARC Linkage LP140100613 with DETE, 2014-2017

Co-Chief Investigator with Lisa Erich, Val Klenowski, Suzanne Carrington, Judy Smeed & Mel Ainscow (Manchester), Ethical leadership: How educators address learning, equity and accountability. ARC Linkage LP0200647 with QELI and 6 Queensland Schools, 2012-2015

Co-Chief Investigator with Robert Hattam (UNISA) and Deb Hayes (U Sydney), Educational leadership and turnaround literacy pedagogy, ARC Linkage LP0100714 with DECS, 2012-2014

Year Citation
2025 Comber, B. (2025). Learners, environments and differences - insights from literacy research. Qualitative Research Journal, 25(1), 52-59.
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2025 Baroutsis, A., Woods, A., Comber, B., & Kervin, L. (2025). Mapping with children to understand the geographies of learning to write. Australian Journal Of Language And Literacy, 48(1), 17-34.
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2025 O'Keeffe, L., McDonald, S., Clarke, C., & Comber, B. (2025). Love it or hate it: mothers' experience with mathematics homework. Mathematics Education Research Journal, online, 1-24.
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2024 Scholes, L., McDonald, S., Stahl, G., & Comber, B. (2024). Many truths, many knowledges, many forms of reason: understanding middle-school student approaches to sources of information on the internet. British Educational Research Journal, 50(1), 1-20.
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2024 Stahl, G., Scholes, L., McDonald, S., Mills, R., Brownlee, J. L., & Comber, B. (2024). Scoping review of conceptions of literacy in middle school science. Research Papers in Education, 39(1), 134-154.
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2024 Windle, J., Comber, B., Baak, M., Calle Diaz, L., Chapman, D., Jorge, M., . . . Trigos Carrillo, L. (2024). Exploring global literacies: playful provocations for connecting, resisting, and inspiring social action. Cadernos De Letras Da Uff, 35(69), 161-187.
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2023 Comber, B., & Hayes, D. (2023). Classroom participation: teachers' work as listeners. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 55(1), 37-48.
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2023 Stahl, G., Scholes, L., McDonald, S., & Comber, B. (2023). Boys, science and literacy: place-based masculinities, reading practices and the 'science literate boy'. Research Papers in Education, 38 8(3), 328-356.
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2023 Comber, B. (2023). An interview with Professor Barbara Comber. Literacy, 57(2), 88-93.
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2023 O'Keeffe, L., Clarke, C., McDonald, S., & Comber, B. (2023). Mathematics homework and the potential compounding of educational disadvantage. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 44(7), 1144-1160.
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2022 Kettle, M., Burnett, B., Lampert, J., Comber, B., & Barnes, N. (2022). Conceptualising early career teachers' agency and accounts of social action in disadvantaged schools. The Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 47(8), 1-17.
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2022 Sisson, J. H., Whitington, V., Shin, A. M., Thiel, J. J., & Comber, B. (2022). Communing to re-imagine figured worlds. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 23(1), 32-47.
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2021 Scholes, L., Spina, N., & Comber, B. (2021). Disrupting the 'boys don't read' discourse: primary school boys who love reading fiction. British Educational Research Journal, 47(1), 163-180.
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2021 Kervin, L., & Comber, B. (2021). Digital writing from the start to the end: creating a book for a friend. Theory into Practice, 60(2), 137-147.
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2021 Lunn Brownlee, J., Ferguson, L., Scholes, L., McDonald, S., Stahl, G., Comber, B., & Mills, R. (2021). Middle school students' science epistemic beliefs - Implications for measurement. International Journal of Educational Research, 105(101719), 1-11.
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2021 Scholes, L., Stahl, G., Comber, B., McDonald, S., & Brownlee, J. L. (2021). 'We don't read in science': student perceptions of literacy and learning science in middle school. Cambridge Journal of Education, 51(4), 451-466.
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2021 Comber, B. (2021). Thinking spatially: a springboard to new possibilities. Australian Geographer, 52(1), 19-23.
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2021 Fenwick, L., & Comber, B. (2021). Digital technologies and inclusive literacy practices. Literacy learning: the middle years, 29(1), 7-12.
2021 Comber, B. (2021). Signing up to be tested: the costs of participation in high stakes literacy standardised assessments. Linguistics and Education, 64(100869), 1-4.
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2021 Mills, R., Scholes, L., Stahl, G., McDonald, S., Comber, B., & Brownlee, J. L. (2021). How do rural Australian students' ethnogeographies related to people and place influence their STEM career aspirations?. International Journal of Science Education, 43(14), 2333-2350.
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2020 Clarke, C., & Comber, B. (2020). How homework shapes family literacy practices. Reading teacher, 73(5), 563-573.
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2020 Stehlik, T., Carter, J., Price, D., & Comber, B. (2020). Hanging out in the city of tomorrow: a participatory approach to researching the importance of music and the arts in the lifeworlds of young people. Pastoral Care in Education, 38(3), 273-289.
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2020 Lampert, J., Burnett, B., Comber, B., Ferguson, A., & Barnes, N. (2020). 'It's not about punitive': exploring how early-career teachers in high-poverty schools respond to critical incidents. Critical studies in education, 61(2), 149-165.
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2019 Comber, B. (2019). Educative encounters of a different kind: Pedagogies of everyday life. Curriculum inquiry, 49(2), 217-229.
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2019 Comber, B., & Carter, J. (2019). Earning or Learning, or Not: Reconnecting Young Adults With Learning Through Multiliteracies Pedagogy. Journal of adolescent and adult literacy, 63(3), 333-336.
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2019 Baroutsis, A., Kervin, L., Woods, A., & Comber, B. (2019). Understanding children's perspectives of classroom writing practices through drawing. Contemporary issues in early childhood, 20(2), 177-193.
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2019 Hruby, G. G. (2019). Language Comprehension Development au Naturel. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 62(4), 447-450.
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2019 Creagh, S., Kettle, M., Alford, J., Comber, B., & Shield, P. (2019). How long does it take to achieve academically in a second language? Comparing the trajectories of EAL students and first language peers in Queensland schools. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 42(3), 145-155.
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2018 Comber, B. (2018). Research methods for pedagogy, by Melanie Nind, Alicia Curtin, and Kathy Hall, 2016, London, Bloomsbury, £21.99 (pbk), 274 pp., ISBN 978-1-4742-4281-3 (pbk). International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 42(4), 480-481.
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2018 Grant, S., Comber, B., Danby, S., Theobald, M., & Thorpe, K. (2018). The quality agenda: governance and regulation of preschool teachers' work. Cambridge journal of education, 48(4), 515-532.
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2018 Paige, K., Lloyd, D., Caldwell, D., Comber, B., O'Keeffe, L., Osborne, S., & Roetman, P. (2018). Futures in primary science education-connecting students to place and ecojustice. Visions for sustainability, 9, 49-59.
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2018 Comber, B., & Grant, H. (2018). Working critically and creatively with fake news. Journal of adolescent and adult literacy, 62(3), 329-332.
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2018 Comber, B. (2018). Editorial: Community-based approaches to foreign language education. Colombian applied linguistics journal, 20(2), 153-160.
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2018 Hayes, D., & Comber, B. (2018). Researching pedagogy in high poverty contexts: implications of non-representational ontology. International journal of research and method in education, 41(4), 387-397.
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2017 Soong, H., & Comber, B. (2017). An imagined 'haven' for refugee Muslim families: slowly re-making the school. International journal of innovation in education, 4(2-3), 89-106.
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2017 Kervin, L., Comber, B., & Woods, A. (2017). Towards a socio-material understanding of writing experiences incorporating digital technology in an early childhood classroom. Literacy research: theory, method, and practice, 66(1), 183-197.
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2017 Scholes, L., Lampert, J., Burnett, B., Comber, B. M., Hoff, L., & Ferguson, A. (2017). The politics of quality teacher discourses: Implications for pre-service teachers in high poverty schools. Australian journal of teacher education, 42(3), 19-43.
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2017 Comber, B., Woods, A., & Grant, H. (2017). Literacy and Imagination: Finding Space in a Crowded Curriculum. Reading teacher, 71(1), 115-120.
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2017 Comber, B. (2017). Literacy, geography and pedagogy: Imagining translocal research alliances for educational justice. Literacy research: theory, method, and practice, 66(1), 53-72.
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2016 Comber, B. (2016). Poverty, place and pedagogy in education: research stories from front-line workers. Australian educational researcher, 43(4), 393-417.
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2016 Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Asilar, E., Bergauer, T., . . . Ryckbosch, D. (2016). Measurement of transverse momentum relative to dijet systems in PbPb and pp collisions at (Formula presented.) TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(1), 1-52.
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2015 Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Asilar, E., Bergauer, T., . . . Gul, M. (2015). Search for supersymmetry in the vector-boson fusion topology in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015(11), 1-42.
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2015 Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Asilar, E., Bergauer, T., . . . Gul, M. (2015). Search for diphoton resonances in the mass range from 150 to 850 GeV in pp collisions at s=8TeV. Physics Letters Section B Nuclear Elementary Particle and High Energy Physics, 750, 494-519.
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2015 Comber, B. (2015). Critical literacy and social justice. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 58(5), 362-367.
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2014 Comber, B. (2014). Literacy, poverty and schooling: what matters in young people's education?. Literacy, 48(3), 115-123.
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2013 Comber, B., & Freebody, P. (2013). Editorial: Literacy education in a changing policy environment: introduction. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 36(2), 65-66.
2013 Mills, K., Comber, B., & Kelly, P. (2013). Sensing place: embodiment, sensoriality, kinesis, and children behind the camera. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 12(2), 11-27.
2013 Comber, B. (2013). Schools as meeting places: critical and inclusive literacies in changing local environments. Language arts, 90(10), 361-371.
2013 Comber, B. (2013). Teachers as researchers: a 'fair dinkum' learning legacy. English in Australia, 48(3), 54-61.
2013 Comber, B., & Nixon, H. (2013). Urban renewal, migration and memories: the affordances of place-based pedagogies for developing immigrant students' literate repertoires. Multidisciplinary Journal of Educational Research, 3(1), 42-68.
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2013 Chatrchyan, S., Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Aguilo, E., . . . Castello, R. (2013). Measurement of the t̄t production cross section in the all-jet final state in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013(5), 35 pages.
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2013 Chatrchyan, S., Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Aguilo, E., . . . Castello, R. (2013). Search for supersymmetry in final states with missing transverse energy and 0, 1, 2, or ≥3 b-quark jets in 7 TeV pp collisions using the variable α T. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013(1), 40 pages.
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2013 Cormack, P., & Comber, B. (2013). High-stakes literacy tests and local effects in a rural school. Australian journal of language and literacy, 36(2), 78-89.
2012 Chatrchyan, S., Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Aguilo, E., . . . Castello, R. (2012). Search for electroweak production of charginos and neutralinos using leptonic final states in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012(11), 47 pages.
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2012 Chatrchyan, S., Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., . . . Ceard, L. (2012). Search for new physics in events with same-sign dileptons and b-tagged jets in pp collisions at √ s = 7TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012(8), 36 pages.
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2012 Chatrchyan, S., Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., . . . Delaere, C. (2012). Search for stopped long-lived particles produced in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012(8), 32 pages.
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2012 Chatrchyan, S., Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., . . . Delaere, C. (2012). Search for leptonic decays of W′ bosons in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012(8), 33 pages.
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2012 Comber, B. (2012). Mandated literacy assessment and the reorganisation of teachers' work: federal policy, local effects. Critical Studies in Education, 53(2), 119-136.
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2011 Comber, B., & Nixon, H. (2011). Critical reading comprehension in an era of accountability. Australian Educational Researcher, 38(2), 167-179.
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2011 Clarence, K., & Comber, B. (2011). General capabilities as a way in to planning. Practically Primary, 16(3), 6-8.
2011 Comber, B. (2011). Changing literacies, changing populations, changing places - English teachers' work in an age of rampant standardisation. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 10(4), 5-22.
2011 Comber, B. (2011). Making space for place-making pedagogies: stretching normative mandated literacy curriculum. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 12(4), 343-348.
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2011 Chatrchyan, S., Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., . . . Weinberg, M. (2011). Search for first generation scalar leptoquarks in the eνjj channel in pp collisions at √<i>s</i>=7 TeV. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 703(3), 246-266.
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2011 Comber, B., & Cormack, P. (2011). Education policy mediation: principals' work with mandated literacy assessment. English in Australia, 46(2), 77-86.
2009 Cazden, C., Kwek, D., & Comber, B. (2009). Editorial: subject English in bilingual and multilingual settings: embracing the linguistic other. English teaching : practice and critique, 8(2), 1-5.
2009 Hattam, R., Brennan, M., Zipin, L., & Comber, B. M. (2009). Researching for social justice: contextual, conceptual and methodological challenges. Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, 30(3), 303-316.
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2009 Comber, B. M., & Nixon, H. P. (2009). Teachers' work and pedagogy in an era of accountability. Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, 30(3), 333-345.
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2008 Kerin, R. J., & Comber, B. M. (2008). A national English curriculum for all Australian youth: making it work for teachers and students everywhere. English in Australia, 43(3), 21-27.
2008 Kerin, R. J., & Comber, B. M. (2008). Assessing the risks and possibilities : standardised literacy testing at year 9. Curriculum perspectives, 28(3), 65-70.
2008 Comber, B. M., & Nixon, H. P. (2008). Spatial literacies, design texts, and emergent pedagogies in purposeful literacy curriculum. Pedagogies : an international journal, 3(4), 221-240.
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2008 Kamler, B., & Comber, B. M. (2008). Making a difference: early career English teachers research their practice. Changing English, 15(1), 65-76.
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2008 Prosser, B., McCallum, F. L., Milroy, P. J., Comber, B. M., & Nixon, H. P. (2008). "I am smart and I am not joking" : aiming high in the middle years of schooling. Australian educational researcher, 35(2), 15-35.
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2007 Comber, B. M. (2007). Editorial - Literacy. Literacy, 41(2), 55-61.
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2007 Nixon, H. P., Comber, B. M., & Cormack, P. A. (2007). River literacies : researching in contradictory spaces of cross-disciplinarity and normativity. English teaching : practice and critique.
2007 Kerkham, L. J., & Comber, B. M. (2007). Literacy, places and identity : the complexity of teaching environmental communications. Australian journal of language and literacy.
2007 Comber, B. M. (2007). The work of women teachers in primary literacy education : knowing and doing. English in Education.
2006 Comber, B. M., Nixon, H. P., Ashmore, L., Loo, S. C. Y. C., & Cook, J. A. (2006). Urban renewal from the inside out : spatial and critical literacies in a low socioeconomic school community. Mind, culture and activity, 13(3), 228-246.
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2006 Thomson, P., Nixon, H. P., & Comber, B. M. (2006). A case of intention deficit disorder? : ICT policy, disadvantaged schools, and leaders. School effectiveness and school improvement, 17(4), 465-482.
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2006 Comber, B. M. (2006). Pedagogy as work : educating the next generation of literacy teachers. Pedagogies : an international journal, 1(1), 59-67.
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2006 Nixon, H. P., & Comber, B. M. (2006). The differential recognition of children's cultural practices in middle primary literacy classrooms. Literacy, 40(3), 127-136.
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2005 Comber, B. M. (2005). Making use of theories about literacy and justice : teachers re-searching practice. Educational action research, 13(1), 43-56.
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2005 Kamler, B., & Comber, B. (2005). Turnaround pedagogies: improving the education of at risk students. Improving Schools, 8(2), 121-131.
2004 Comber, B. M., & Kamler, B. (2004). Getting out of deficit : pedagogies of reconnection. Teaching Education.
2004 Comber, B. M., Kamler, B., Hood, D., Moureau, S., & Painter, J. (2004). Thirty years into teaching: professional development, exhaustion and rejuvenation. English Teaching: Practice and Critique.
2004 Kamler, B., & Comber, B. M. (2004). The new English teacher: redesigning pedagogies. English in Australia.
2004 Comber, B. M. (2004). Three little boys and their literacy trajectories. Australian journal of language and literacy.
2004 Comber, B. M., & Nichols, S. M. (2004). Getting the big picture : regulating knowledge in the early childhood literacy curriculum. Journal of early childhood literacy, 4(1), 43-63.
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2004 Boyer, I., Maney, B., Kamler, B., & Comber, B. M. (2004). Reciprocal mentoring across generations : sustaining professional development for English teachers. English Teaching: Practice and Critique.
2003 Comber, B. M. (2003). Reinventing and re-working critical literacies. Discourse : studies in the cultural politics of education, 24(1), 127-134.
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2003 Thomson, P., & Comber, B. (2003). Deficient "disadvantaged students" or media savvy meaning makers? Engaging new metaphors for redesigning classrooms and pedagogies. McGill Journal of Education, 38(2), 168-181.
2002 Comber, B. M., Badger, L. M., Barnett, J. A., Nixon, H. P., & Pitt, J. (2002). Literacy after the early years : a longitudinal study. Australian journal of language and literacy.
2001 Nixon, H. P., & Comber, B. M. (2001). Reviewing literature for adolescents and young adults: critical pedagogy in action. Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature.
2001 Comber, B. M. (2001). Critical literacy: Power and pleasure with language in the early years. Australian journal of language and literacy.
2001 Comber, B. M., Thomson, P., & Wells, M. (2001). Critical literacy finds a 'place' : writing and social action in a low income Australian grade 2/3 classroom. Elementary school journal, 101(4), 451-464.
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2000 Comber, B. M. (2000). What really counts in early literacy lessons. Language Arts.
2000 Comber, B. M. (2000). Reflections on the process of teacher research. English as a Second Language Educators' Journal.
2000 Comber, B. M., & Hill, S. (2000). Socio-economic disadvanatge, literacy and social justice: learning from longitudinal case study research. Australian educational researcher.
1999 Comber, B. M. (1999). 'Coming ready or not!': What counts as early literacy?. Language and literacy: a Canadian educational e-journal.
1998 Comber, B. M. (1998). Critical literacy: what's it all about. Literacy Matters.
1998 Comber, B. M. (1998). Problematising background: (re) constructing categories in educational research. Australian educational researcher.
1997 Cormack, P., & Comber, B. M. (1997). Looking beyond 'skills' and 'processes'; literacy as social and cultural practices in classrooms. Reading.
1997 Comber, B. M. (1997). Literacy, poverty and schooling: working against deficit equations. English in Australia.
1997 Comber, B. M. (1997). Managerial discourses: tracking the local effects on teachers' and students' work in literacy lessons. Discourse : studies in the cultural politics of education.
1997 Comber, B. M., & Kamler, B. (1997). Critical literacies: politicising the language classroom. Interpretation: A Journal of Heritage and Environmental Interpertation.

Year Citation
2017 Hayes, D., Hattam, R., Comber, B., Kerkham, L., Lupton, R., & Thomson, P. (2017). Literacy, leading and learning: beyond pedagogies of poverty. UK: Routledge.
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2016 Comber, B. (2016). Literacy, place, and pedagogies of possibility. US: Routledge.
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2014 Morgan, A. M., Comber, B., Freebody, P., Nixon, H., Grant, H., Trimboli, R., . . . White, M. (2014). Literacy in the middle years: learning from collaborative classroom research. Australia: Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA).
2013 Hall, K., Cremin, T., Comber, B., & Moll, L. C. (Eds.) (2013). International handbook of research on children's literacy, learning, and culture. UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
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2012 Simpson, A., White, S., Freebody, P., & Comber, B. (2012). Language, literacy and literature. South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Oxford University Press.
2009 Bloustien, G., Comber, B., & Mackinnon, A. (Eds.) (2009). The Hawke legacy. Australia: Wakefield Press.
2007 Comber, B. M., Nixon, H. P., & Reid, J. A. (2007). Literacies in place: Teaching environmental communication. Australia: Primary English Teaching Association.
2005 Comber, B. M., & Kamler, B. (2005). Turn-around pedagogies : literacy interventions for at-risk students. Newtown, NSW: PETA.
2001 Boran, S., & Comber, B. M. (2001). Critiquing whole language and classroom enquiry. Illinois: Whole language Umbrella and national council of teachers of English.
2001 Comber, B. M., Badger, L. M., Barnett, J. A., Nixon, H. P., & Pitt, J. (2001). Socio-economically disadvantaged students and the development of literacies in school : a longitudinal study (First edition ed.). Adelaide: University of South Australia, Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures.
2001 Comber, B. M., & Simpson, A. P. (Eds.) (2001). Negotiating Critical Literacies in Classrooms. US: Taylor and Francis.
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1998 Hill, S., Comber, B. M., Louden, W., Rivalland, J., & Reid, J. (1998). 100 Children go to School. Connections and disconnections in literacy development in the prior to school period. The first year of school.. Australia: Commonwealth of Australia.
1998 Hill, S., Comber, B. M., Louden, W., Rivalland, J., & Reid, J. (1998). 100 children go to school: connections and disconnections in literacy development in the year prior to school and the first year of school. Canberra: Comonwealth of Australia.
1997 Hill, S., & Comber, B. M. (1997). 100 Children Go to School. Connections and disconnections in literacy development in the year prior to school and the first year of school. Australia: Commonwealth of Australia.

Year Citation
2023 Spina, N., Comber, B., & Jeffries, M. (2023). Critical literacies & social justice: social justice approaches in schools. In R. J. Tierney, & F. Ercikan (Eds.), Source details - Title: International Encyclopedia of Education (4th ed., pp. 217-224). US: Elsevier.
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2023 Kervin, L., & Comber, B. (2023). Collaborative inquiries in diverse literacy classrooms to understand learning opportunities. In C. Brock, B. Exley, & L. -I. Rigney (Eds.), Source details - Title: International Perspectives on Literacies, Diversities, and Opportunities for Learning: Critical Conversations (pp. 178-197). UK: Routledge.
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2022 Channing, D., Kerkham, L., & Comber, B. (2022). 'It's not my story': Revitalising young people's learning lives. In J. Carter, D. Price, & B. MacGill (Eds.), Source details - Title: Arts-based practice with young people on the edge (pp. 147-163). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillian.
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2022 Paige, K., Haggerty, B., & Comber, B. (2022). Water literacies: co-researching, learning, and acting for the wetlands. In M. Haggstrom, & C. Schmidt (Eds.), Source details - Title: Relational and Critical Perspectives on Education for Sustainable Development: Belonging and sensing in a vanishing world (pp. 53-66). Switzerland: Springer.
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2021 Boggs, G. L., Spina, N., Alvermann, D. E., & Comber, B. (2021). Critical literacies out of the comfort zone: productive textual tantrums. In J. H. Alford (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Handbook of Critical Literacies (pp. 327-334). US: Routledge.
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2020 Kervin, L., Comber, B., & Woods, A. (2020). Children learning to write in early primary classrooms. In H. Myhill, & H. Lewis (Eds.), Source details - Title: Developing Writers Across the Primary and Secondary Years: Growing into Writing (pp. 19-39). UK: Routledge.
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2020 Comber, B. (2020). Opening minds, eyes, ears, and doors: emergent learning opportunities for literacy educators weaving theory in everyday classrooms. In K. Lenters, & M. McDermott (Eds.), Source details - Title: Affect, Embodiment, and Place in Critical Literacy: Assembling Theory and Practice (pp. 73-84). US: Routledge.
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2019 Kervin, L., & Comber, B. (2019). Teacher research in teacher education. In Source details - Title: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education (pp. 1-18). UK: Oxford University Press.
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2019 Kervin, L., & Comber, B. (2019). Early years teachers' work and play with multiliteracies. In K. Kumpulainen, & J. Sefton-Green (Eds.), Source details - Title: Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation: Perspectives from Finland and Beyond (pp. 21-41). UK: Taylor and Francis.
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2019 Kervin, L., Woods, A., Comber, B., & Baroutsis, A. (2019). Mobilising critical literacies: text production in children's hands. In G. Oakley (Ed.), Source details - Title: Mobile technologies in children's language and literacy (pp. 119-132). UK: Emerald.
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2019 Kervin, L., Comber, B., & Baroutsis, A. (2019). Sociomaterial dimensions of early literacy learning spaces: Moving through classrooms with teacher and children. In H. Hughes, J. Franz, & J. Willis (Eds.), Source details - Title: School spaces for student wellbeing and learning: insights from research and practice (pp. 21-38). Singapore: Springer.
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2018 Lampert, J., Burnett, B., Comber, B., Ferguson, A., & Barnes, N. (2018). Quality teaching discourses: a contested terrain. In S. Gannon, R. Hattam, & W. Sawyer (Eds.), Source details - Title: Resisting educational inequality: Reframing policy and practice in schools serving vulnerable communities (pp. 150-158). UK: Routledge.
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2018 Comber, B., Klenowski, V., & Harris, J. (2018). Listening to the voices of teachers. In J. Harris, S. Carrington, & M. Ainscow (Eds.), Source details - Title: Promoting equity in schools: collaboration, inquiry and ethical leadership (pp. 45-68). London: Routledge.
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2018 Comber, B., & Woods, A. (2018). Pedagogies of belonging in literacy classrooms and beyond: what's holding us back?. In C. Halse (Ed.), Source details - Title: Interrogating belonging for young people in schools (pp. 263-281). Switzerland: Palgrave.
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2017 Baroutsis, A., Comber, B., & Woods, A. (2017). Social geography, space, and place in education. In G. W. Noblit (Ed.), Source details - Title: Oxford research encyclopedia of education (pp. 1-16). UK: Oxford University Press.
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2016 Kerkham, L., & Comber, B. (2016). Literacy leadership and accountability practices: holding onto ethics in ways that count. In T. Thompson, G. G, L. Lingard, B. B, S. Sellar, & S. S (Eds.), Source details - Title: National testing in schools: An Australian assessment (pp. 86-97). UK: Routledge.
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2016 Comber, B., & Woods, A. (2016). Literacy teacher research in high poverty schools: why it matters. In J. Lampert, & B. Burnett (Eds.), Source details - Title: Teacher education for high poverty schools (pp. 193-210). Switzerland: Springer.
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2016 Comber, B. (2016). The relevance of composing: children's spaces for social agency. In A. H. Dyson (Ed.), Source details - Title: Child Cultures, Schooling and Literacy: Global Perspectives on Composing Unique Lives (pp. 119-132). US: Routledge.
2016 Comber, B., & Kerkham, L. (2016). Gus: I cannot write anything. In A. H. Dyson (Ed.), Source details - Title: Child Cultures, Schooling and Literacy: Global Perspectives on Composing Unique Lives (pp. 53-64). US: Routledge.
2015 Mills, K. A., & Comber, B. (2015). Socio-spatial approaches to literacy studies: rethinking the social constitution and politics of space. In K. Pahl, & J. Rowsell (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies (pp. 91-103). UK: Routledge.
2015 Woods, A., Comber, B., & Iyer, R. (2015). Literacy learning: designing and enacting inclusive pedagogical practices in classrooms. In J. M. Deppeler (Ed.), Source details - Title: Inclusive Pedagogy Across the Curriculum (pp. 45-71). UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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2015 Comber, B. (2015). Foreword - Critical Literacy Practice: Applications of Critical Theory in Diverse Settings. In B. Yoon, & R. Sharif (Eds.), Source details - Title: Critical Literacy Practice: Applications of Critical Theory in Diverse Settings (pp. vii-x). Singapore: Springer Science+Business Media.
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2015 Comber, B. (2015). School literate repertoires: that was then, this is now. In J. Rowsell, & J. Sefton-Green (Eds.), Source details - Title: Learning and Literacy over Time: Longitudinal Perspectives (pp. 16-31). US: Routledge.
2015 Comber, B., Thomson, P., & Wells, M. (2015). Critical literacy finds a 'place': writing and social action in a low-income Australian grade 2/3 classroom. In K. Winograd (Ed.), Source details - Title: Critical literacies and young learners: connecting classroom practice to the common core (pp. 147-158). US: Routledge.
2015 Comber, B. (2015). Critical literacy, interview with Barbara Comber. In J. Larson, & J. Marsh (Eds.), Source details - Title: Making Literacy Real: Theories and Practices for Learning and Teaching (second edition ed., pp. 52-59). US: SAGE Publications.
2014 Comber, B., Morgan, A. M., & Freebody, P. (2014). Collaborative literacy research and why it matters. In A. Morgan (Ed.), Source details - Title: Literacy in the middle years: Learning from collaborative classroom research (pp. 132-141). Australia: Primary English Teaching Association.
2014 Freebody, P., Morgan, A. M., Comber, B., & Nixon, H. (2014). Literacy research: a middle years project. In A. Morgan (Ed.), Source details - Title: Literacy in the middle years: Learning from collaborative classroom research (pp. 1-14). Australia: Primary English Teaching Association.
2014 Comber, B., & Nixon, H. (2014). Critical literacy across the curriculum: learning to read, question, and rewrite designs. In J. Z. Pandya, & J. Avila (Eds.), Source details - Title: Moving Critical Literacies Forward: A New Look at Praxis Across Contexts (pp. 83-97). US: Routledge.
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2013 Mills, K. A., & Comber, B. (2013). Space, place, and power: the spatial turn in literacy research. In K. Hall (Ed.), Source details - Title: International handbook of research on children's literacy, learning, and culture (pp. 412-423). UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
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2013 Dooley, K., Exley, B., & Comber, B. (2013). Leading literacies literacy teacher education for inclusion and social justice. In C. Kosnik (Ed.), Source details - Title: Literacy Teacher Educators: Preparing Teachers for a Changing World (pp. 65-78). Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
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2013 Comber, B. (2013). Critical theory and literacy. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), Source details - Title: The encyclopaedia of applied linguistics (pp. 1525-1535). UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
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2013 Kerkham, L., & Comber, B. (2013). Literacy, place-based pedagogies and social justice. In B. Green, & M. Corbett (Eds.), Source details - Title: Rethinking rural literacies: transnational perspectives (pp. 197-218). US: Palgrave Macmillan.
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2013 Comber, B. (2013). Literacy for a sustainable world. In A. Simpson (Ed.), Source details - Title: Language, Literacy and Literature (pp. 26-48). Australia: Oxford University Press.
2013 Comber, B. (2013). Critical literacy in the early years: emergence and sustenance in an age of accountability. In J. Larson, & J. Marsh (Eds.), Source details - Title: The SAGE Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy, Second Edition (pp. 587-602). UK: Sage Publications.
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2013 Hall, K., Cremin, T., Comber, B., & Moll, L. C. (2013). Editors' Introduction. In K. Hall (Ed.), Source details - Title: International Handbook of Research on Children's Literacy, Learning, and Culture (pp. xxxvii-xlix). UK: Wiley.
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2012 Nixon, H., Comber, B., Grant, H., & Wells, M. (2012). Collaborative inquiries into literacy, place and identity in changing policy contexts: implications for teacher development. In C. Day (Ed.), Source details - Title: Routledge International Handbook of Teacher and School Development (pp. 175-184). UK: Routledge.
2011 Nixon, H., & Comber, B. (2011). Redesigning school spaces: creating possibilities for learning. In J. Sefton-Green (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning (pp. 253-263). UK: Routledge.
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2010 Comber, B. M. (2010). Critical literacies in place: teachers who work for just and sustainable communities. In J. Lavia, & M. Moore (Eds.), Source details - Title: Cross-cultural perspectives on policy and practice: decolonizing community contexts (pp. 43-57). New York: Routledge.
2010 Comber, B. (2010). Reading places. In K. Hall (Ed.), Source details - Title: Interdisciplinary perspectives on learning to read (pp. 32-43). US: Routledge.
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2009 Nixon, H. P., & Comber, B. M. (2009). Literacy, landscapes and learning in a primary classroom. In M. Somerville, K. Power, & P. Carteret (Eds.), Source details - Title: Landscapes and learning: place studies for a global world (pp. 119-137). Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense.
2009 Comber, B. M., & Kamler, B. (2009). Sustaining the next generation of teacher-researchers to work for social justice. In S. Noffke (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Sage handbook of educational action research (pp. 226-237). London: SAGE.
2009 Bloustien, G., Mackinnon, A., & Comber, B. (2009). Introduction - The Hawke legacy. In G. Bloustien, B. Combe, & A. Mackinnon (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Hawke legacy (pp. viii-xvii). Australia: Wakefield Press.
2007 Comber, B. M., & Reid, J. A. (2007). Understanding literacy pedagogy in and out of school. In L. Makin, C. Diaz, & C. McLachlan (Eds.). NSW, Australia: MacLennan and Petty.
2007 Nixon, H. P., Reid, J. A., & Comber, B. M. (2007). Teaching for Environmental sustainability: combining critique and hope. In B. Comber (Ed.), Source details - Title: Literacies in place: Teaching environmental communication (pp. 142-154). Newtwon, NSW: Primary English Teaching Association.
2007 Comber, B. M. (2007). Assembling dynamic repertoires of literate practices : teaching that makes a difference. In E. Bearne (Ed.), Source details - Title: Literacy and social inclusion : closing the gap (pp. 115-131). Stoke on Trent: Trentham.
2007 Cormack, P., & Comber, B. M. (2007). Young people's representations of the Murray-Darling Basin. In E. Potter (Ed.), Source details - Title: Fresh water : new perspectives on water in Australia (pp. 134-152). Australia: Melbourne University Press.
2007 Comber, B. M., & Cormack, P. (2007). Constituting the teacher of reading in contemporary Australian literacy debates. In R. Openshaw (Ed.), Source details - Title: Reading across international boundaries : history, policy and politics (pp. 87-109). USA: Information Age Publishing.
2007 Nixon, H. P., Comber, B. M., & Reid, J. A. (2007). Environmental communications: pedagogies of responsibility and place. In B. Comber (Ed.), Source details - Title: Literacies in place: Teaching environmental communications (pp. 5-17). Newtwon, NSW: Primary English Teaching Association.
2006 Janks, H., & Comber, B. M. (2006). Critical literacy across continents. In Source details - Title: Travel notes from the new literacy studies : instances of practice (pp. 95-117). Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo: Multilingual Matters.
2006 Comber, B. M., & Reid, J. A. (2006). Literacy education : what's new and what needs to be new?. In Source details - Title: Only connect : English teaching, schooling and community (pp. 335-348). Adelaide, Australia: Wakefield Press.
2006 Comber, B. M., & Kamler, B. (2006). Redesigning literacy pedagogies : the complexities of producing sustainable change. In Source details - Title: Redesigning pedagogy : reflections on theory and praxis (pp. 19-30). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
2006 Comber, B. M. (2006). Critical literacy educators at work : examining dispositions, discursive resources and repertoires of practice. In Source details - Title: The practical critical educator : critical inquiry and educational practice (pp. 51-65). Dordrecht: Springer.
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2005 Kamler, B., & Comber, B. M. (2005). Designing turn-around pedagogies and contesting deficit assumptions. In Source details - Title: Turn-around pedagogies: Literacy interventions for at-risk students (pp. 1-14). Newtown, NSW: Primary English Teaching Association.
2005 Nixon, H. P., & Comber, B. M. (2005). Behind the scenes : making movies in early years classrooms. In Source details - Title: Popular culture, new media and digital literacy in early childhood (pp. 219-236). London: RoutledgeFalmer.
2004 Comber, B., & Nixon, H. (2004). Children reread and rewrite their local neighbourhoods : critical literacies and identity work. In J. Evans (Ed.), Source details - Title: Literacy Moves On: Using Popular Culture, New Technologies and Critical Literacy in the Primary Classroon (pp. 115-132). US: David Fulton Publishers.
2003 Comber, B. M. (2003). Critical literacy : what does it look like in the early years?. In Source details - Title: Handbook of Research in early childhood literacy (pp. 355-368). UK: Sage Publications Ltd.
2003 Comber, B. M., & Barnett, J. A. (2003). Looking at children's literacy learning. In Source details - Title: Look Again: Longitudinal Studies of Children's Literacy Learning (pp. 1-20). Australia: Primary English Teachers association.
2003 Kamler, B., & Comber, B. M. (2003). Learning the secrets of teaching. In Source details - Title: English Teachers at Work: Narratives, Counter Narratives and Arguments (pp. 326-341). Australia: Wakefield Press.
2003 Luke, A., Comber, B. M., & Grant, H. (2003). Critical literacies and cultural studies. In Source details - Title: The Literacy Lexicon (2 ed., pp. 15-35). Australia: Prentice Hall.
2003 Comber, B. M. (2003). Literacy interrupted: ADHD, absence and mobility. In Source details - Title: Look Again: Longitudinal Studies of Children's Literacy Learning (pp. 21-34). Australia: Primary English teachers Association.
2002 Reid, J. A., & Comber, B. (2002). Theoretical perspectives on early childhood:implications for language and literacy education. In Source details - Title: Literacies in early childhood:changing views challenging practice (2nd ed., pp. 15-34). Australia: Maclennan and petty.
2001 Comber, B. M. (2001). Critical literacies and local action : teacher knowledge and a new research agenda. In Source details - Title: Negotiating critical literacies in classrooms (pp. 271-282). New JerseyUnited States: Lawrence Erlbaum.
2001 Comber, B. M., Cormack, P., & O'Brien, J. L. (2001). Schooling disruptions: the case of critical literacy. In C. Dudley-Marling (Ed.), Source details - Title: The fate of progressive language policies and practice (pp. 83-104). United States.
2001 Comber, B. M. (2001). Critical inquiry or safe literacies: who's allowed to ask which questions?. In Source details - Title: Critiquing Whole Language and Classroom Inquiry (pp. 81-102). United States: National Council of Teachers of English.
2000 Comber, B. M. (2000). Negotiating critical literacies with young children. In Source details - Title: Literacy learning in the early years (pp. 152-171). Australia: Allen and Unwin.
1999 Luke, A., Lingard, B., Green, B., & Comber, B. M. (1999). The abuses of literacy: educational policy and the construction of crisis. In J. Marshall, & M. Peters (Eds.), Source details - Title: Education Policy (pp. 763-787). Cheltenham, Gloucester UK: Edward Elgar Publishing ltd.
1999 Comber, B. M. (1999). Doing schooling: literacy and curriculum work. In B. Johnson, & A. Reid (Eds.), Source details - Title: Contesting the Curriculum (pp. 43-58). Katoomba NSW.
1999 Comber, B. M. (1999). Shifting Gears: learning to work the discourses of academic research. In A. Holbrook, & S. Johnson (Eds.), Source details - Title: Supervision of Postgraduate Research in Education (pp. 131-136). Coldstream, Victoria.
1999 Comber, B. M., & Nixon, H. P. (1999). Literacy education as a site for social justice: what do our practices do?. In C. Edelsky (Ed.), Source details - Title: Making Justice our Project (pp. 316-351). Urbana, Illinois: National council of teachers of English (USA).
1998 Comber, B. M. (1998). Making the time and space for critical literacy. In Source details - Title: Knowledge of texts: theory and practice in critical literacy (pp. 7-22). Melbourne: Language Australia Publications.
1998 Comber, B. M., Green, B., Lingard, B., & Luke, A. (1998). Literacy debates and public education: a question of crisis. In A. Reid (Ed.), Source details - Title: Going Public: Educational policy and public education in Australia (pp. 18-34). CAnberra.

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2014 Comber, B. M. (2014). Literacy, place, and pedagogies of possibility: working against residualization effects and deficit discourses in poor school communities. In 2014 Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association (pp. 1-11). US: AERA.
2010 Comber, B. M. (2010). Preface - Sites of Possibilities. In Sites of Possibilities: Critical Dialogue Across Educational Settings (Discourse and Social Prosses). US: Hampton Press.
2007 Comber, B. M. (2007). Getting out of deficit: Raising learning expectations and seeing them through. In Plenary address to Priority Schools Programs Biennial Conference. NSW, Australia: Priority Schools Program.
2007 Comber, B. M. (2007). Reading places : creative and critical literacies for now and the future. In S. Simpson, & A. Alyson (Eds.), Future directions in literacy : international conversations conference 2007. Sydney: University of Sydney Press.
2005 Nixon, H. P., Comber, B. M., & Cairns, F. (2005). Building and sustaining school-community partnerships for social justice. In International Congress for school effectiveness and improvement. Barcelona, Spain: ICSEI.
2005 Comber, B. M. (2005). Literacies with currency: teachers work to make a difference. In Pleasureable learning, passionate teaching and provocative debates. Gold Coast, Australia.
2005 Comber, B. M. (2005). Tackling the toughest challenges in testing times: Early and late-career teacher-researchers re-design pedagogies. In Practitioner Inquiry in an Era of accountability: Reflections and directions American Education Research Association Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada: American Educational Research Association.
2005 Comber, B. M. (2005). Critical literacy educators at work: dispositions, discursive resources and repertoires of practice. In American Educational Research Association 2005 Annual Meeting. Netherlands: Springer.
2001 Kamler, B., Dornbrack, J., Comber, B. M., & OBrien, J. L. (2001). Cross-Generational and historical interviewing : stories of literacy teachers work. In J. Jeffery, & P. L. (Eds.), AARE Annual International Education Research Conference : Towards an optimistic future. Sydney, New South Wales: Australian Association for Research in Education.
2001 Comber, B. M. (2001). Literacy development and normative fantasies : what can be learnt from watching students over time?. In J. Jeffery, & P. L. (Eds.), AARE Annual International Education Research Conference : Crossing borders : new frontiers for educational research. Fremantle, Western Australia: Australian Association for Research in Education.
2001 Comber, B. M., & Thomson, P. (2001). Just New Learning Environments: New Metaphors and Practices for Learners and Teachers in Disadvantaged Schools. In Dept for Education and Skills: Experiencing change, Exchanging Experience Virtual Conference 2001.
1999 Comber, B. M. (1999). Making use of theories about literacy and justice: teachers re-searching practice. In On the threshold of the 21st century: Challenges and opportunities. http://www.ericae.net/db2/ann99/9940_65.htm.
1998 Comber, B. M. (1998). Comming ready or not: changing what counts as early literacy. In New approaches to old puzzels: reconceptualising the early years of school.. Electronic conference proceedings.
1998 Comber, B. M. (1998). Literacy, contingency and room to move: researching'normativity' and spaces of freedom' in classrooms. In AARE Conference. http://www.swin.edu.au/aare/98pap/com98069.html.
1998 Comber, B. M. (1998). Literacies, contingent repertoires and school sucess. In ALEA, AAATE and ASLA Conference Proceedings; Literacy for all. Canberra: Australian Literacy Educators Association.
1997 Comber, B. M. (1997). Pleasure, productivity and power: contradictory discourses of literacy. In Language, learning and culutre: unsettling certainties. Joint National Conference of AATE, ALEA, ASLA. Darwin: Northen Territory Department of Education.

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2018 Paige, K., Caldwell, D., Elliott, K., O'Keeffe, L., Osborne, S., Roetman, P., . . . Gosnell, S. (2018). Fresh water literacies: transdisciplinary learning for place and eco justice. Australia: University of South Australia.
2010 Gale, T., Hattam, R., Comber, B., Tranter, D., Bills, D., Sellar, S., & Parker, S. (2010). Interventions early in school as a means to improve higher education outcomes for disadvantaged students. Australia: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
2010 Sellar, S., Hattam, R., Bills, D., Comber, B., Tranter, D., & Gale, T. (2010). Interventions early in school as a means to improve higher education outcomes for disadvantaged (particularly low SES) students : Component C: Case studies of selected Australian university outreach activities. Australia: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
2010 Gale, T., Hattam, R., Parker, S., Comber, B., Bills, D., & Tranter, D. (2010). Interventions early in school as a means to improve higher education outcomes for disadvantaged (particularly low SES) students : Component B: A survey of the nature and extent of outreach activities conducted by Australian higher education (Table A) providers. Australia: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
2010 Gale, T., Tranter, D., Bills, D., Hattam, R., & Comber, B. (2010). Interventions early in school as a means to improve higher education outcomes for disadvantaged (particularly low SES) students: Component A: A review of the Australian and international literature. Australia: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
2010 Gale, T. C., Tranter, D. R., Bills, D. F., Hattam, R. J., & Comber, B. M. (2010). Interventions early in school as a means to improve higher education outcomes for disadvantaged (particularly low SES) students : a design and evaluation matrix for university outreach in schools. Canberra, Australia: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.
2010 Cormack, P., Comber, B. M., Wilkinson, L., Bills, D. F., Barnett, J. A., Brennan, M., . . . Sullivan, P. (2010). 2009 futureSACE school to work innovation program : literacy and numeracy project final report. South Australia: UniSA.
2010 Nixon, H. P., Comber, B. M., Kerin, R. J., & Milroy, P. (2010). Investigating literacy years 4-9: A pilot study. South Australia: University of South Australia.
2009 Cormack, P., Comber, B., Wilkinson, L., Hattam, R. J., Brennan, M., Kerin, R. J., . . . Walsh, J. (2009). 2008 futureSACE School to Work Innovation Program: literacy project final report. Adelaide, South Australia: University of South Australia.
2007 Cormack, P., Nichols, S. M., Atkinson, S. P., & Comber, B. M. (2007). Boys literacies and identities : project report: Source details - Title: Boys Literacies and identities: Project report. Australia: University of South Australia.
2004 Cormack, P. A., Chartres, M. T., Hattam, R. J., & Comber, B. M. (2004). An evaluation of the 2003 South Australian literacy and numeracy tests: a report for the Australian Education Union (SA). Australia: The Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures, University of South Australia.

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