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Colin Harrison
Emeritus Professor of Literacy Studies in Education, Faculty of Social Sciences
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Biography
After teaching English at secondary level for seven years, he worked on the Schools Council project The Effective Use of Reading, during which time he chaired the Schools Council's Evaluator's Group. He taught on the secondary PGCE English course at Nottingham for over 25 years, and was Director of Research in the School of Education from 2001-4. His books include Readability in the Classroom, The Reading for Real Handbook, Understanding Reading Development and Using Technology to improve Reading and Learning. He was a founding editor of the Journal of Research in Reading and is past president of the United Kingdom Reading Association. He has directed over forty funded research projects, including fifteen in the field of new technology, and has been a member of the Learning Sciences Research Institute since 1992.
Research Summary
His current research focuses on two areas: Critical Internet Literacy, and computational thinking. Much of this work has come from the LSRI project 'Case Studies in Computational Thinking in two… read more
Current Research
His current research focuses on two areas: Critical Internet Literacy, and computational thinking. Much of this work has come from the LSRI project 'Case Studies in Computational Thinking in two innovative UK academies'.