Barbara Comber

Barbara Comber

University of South Australia

H-index: 53

Oceania-Australia

About Barbara Comber

Barbara Comber, With an exceptional h-index of 53 and a recent h-index of 29 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of South Australia, specializes in the field of literacy, pedagogy, poverty, schooling, teachers.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Many truths, many knowledges, many forms of reason: Understanding middle‐school student approaches to sources of information on the internet

Scoping review of conceptions of literacy in middle school science

Collaborative Inquiries in Diverse Literacy Classrooms to Understand Learning Opportunities

‘It’s Not My Story’: Revitalising Young People’s Learning Lives

Critical Literacy, Teacher Research, and Social Justice

Critical literacies and social justice: social justice approaches in schools

Boys, science and literacy: place-based masculinities, reading practices and the ‘science literate boy’

An interview with Professor Barbara Comber

Barbara Comber Information

University

Position

Professor of Education

Citations(all)

9143

Citations(since 2020)

3148

Cited By

7404

hIndex(all)

53

hIndex(since 2020)

29

i10Index(all)

131

i10Index(since 2020)

63

Email

University Profile Page

University of South Australia

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Barbara Comber Skills & Research Interests

literacy

pedagogy

poverty

schooling

teachers

Top articles of Barbara Comber

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Many truths, many knowledges, many forms of reason: Understanding middle‐school student approaches to sources of information on the internet

British Educational Research Journal

Laura Scholes

Sarah McDonald

Garth Stahl

Barbara Comber

2024/2

Scoping review of conceptions of literacy in middle school science

Garth Stahl

Laura Scholes

Sarah McDonald

Reece Mills

Jo Lunn Brownlee

...

2024/1/2

Collaborative Inquiries in Diverse Literacy Classrooms to Understand Learning Opportunities

Lisa Kervin

Barbara Comber

2024

‘It’s Not My Story’: Revitalising Young People’s Learning Lives

David Channing

Lyn Kerkham

Barbara Comber

2023/1/1

Critical Literacy, Teacher Research, and Social Justice

Barbara Comber

2023/7/25

Critical literacies and social justice: social justice approaches in schools

International Encyclopedia of Education: Fourth Edition. Vol. 10.[4th ed.]

Nerida Spina

Barbara Comber

Michelle Jeffries

2023

Boys, science and literacy: place-based masculinities, reading practices and the ‘science literate boy’

Research Papers in Education

Garth Stahl

Laura Scholes

Sarah McDonald

Reece Mills

Barbara Comber

2023/5/4

An interview with Professor Barbara Comber

Literacy

Barbara Comber

2023/5

Classroom participation: Teachers’ work as listeners

Journal of Curriculum Studies

Barbara Comber

Debra Hayes

2023/1/2

Primary and secondary education: literacy and social justice

Nerida Spina

Barbara Comber

2023/1/1

Mathematics homework and the potential compounding of educational disadvantage

British Journal of Sociology of Education

Lisa O’Keeffe

Carolyn Clarke

Sarah McDonald

Barbara Comber

2023/10/3

Conceptualising early career teachers' agency and accounts of social action in disadvantaged schools

Australian Journal of Teacher Education (Online)

Margaret Kettle

Bruce Burnett

Jo Lampert

Barbara Comber

Naomi Barnes

2022/8/1

Water Literacies: Co-researching, Learning, and Acting for the Wetlands

Kathryn Paige

Bernadette Haggerty

Barbara Comber

2022/7/19

Communing to re-imagine figured worlds

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

Jamie Huff Sisson

Victoria Whitington

Anne-Marie Shin

Jaye Johnson Thiel

Barbara Comber

2022/3

How do rural Australian students’ ethnogeographies related to people and place influence their STEM career aspirations?

International Journal of Science Education

Reece Mills

Laura Scholes

Garth Stahl

Sarah McDonald

Barbara Comber

...

2021/9/22

Disrupting the 'boys don't read' discourse: Primary school boys who love reading fiction

British Educational Research Journal

Laura Scholes

Nerida Spina

Barbara Comber

2021/2

Critical literacy out of the comfort zone: Productive textual tantrums

George L Boggs

Nerida Spina

Donna E Alvermann

Barbara Comber

2021/9/7

Thinking spatially: A springboard to new possibilities

Australian Geographer

Barbara Comber

2021/1/2

Signing up to be tested: The costs of participation in high stakes literacy standardised assessments

Linguistics and Education

Barbara Comber

2021/8/1

Middle school students’ science epistemic beliefs: Implications for measurement

International Journal of Educational Research

Joanne Lunn

Leila E Ferguson

Laura Scholes

Sarah McDonald

Garth Stahl

...

2021

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Co-Authors

H-index: 83
Allan Luke

Allan Luke

Queensland University of Technology

H-index: 59
A.H. Dyson

A.H. Dyson

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

H-index: 42
Trevor Gale

Trevor Gale

University of Glasgow

H-index: 38
Professor Kathy A. Mills

Professor Kathy A. Mills

Australian Catholic University

H-index: 34
Hilary Janks

Hilary Janks

University of the Witwatersrand

H-index: 30
Jo-Anne Reid

Jo-Anne Reid

Charles Sturt University

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