SIG Meet & Discuss: Literacy and Language 2027
The Â鶹ÒùÔº Literacy and Language Special Interest Group warmly invites members to join us for an informal Meet & Greet event in early 2027. This friendly, interactive online gathering will be an...
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Katherine Davis-Wright, Dr
EdD student at University of Sheffield
Katherine Davis-Wright is a final-year EdD student at the University of Sheffield, novelist and teacher of English at a state secondary school in the UK. Her doctoral research looks at the tensions between how secondary students experience creative writing inside and outside of the curriculum, and how these experiences inform and construct their authorial identities.
She is particularly passionate about creativity in education, the development of authorial identity, multimodal literacies outside of the curriculum, and how online writing spaces, such as fanfiction communities, act as affinity spaces for writers.
Katherine Davis-Wright's contributions
Is creative writing an art form? The curriculum doesn’t think so
Over the past decade, English (as a curriculum subject) has been stripped of its soul and creativity. What was once a subject that celebrated imagination and voice has been reduced to a sterile...
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Join us for our first SIG forum! We warmly invite you to our first Literacy and Language SIG forum where we’ll introduce our plans for the coming year and begin shaping our collective...
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