Name

Veronica Hanke

E-mail Address

vh245@cam.ac.uk

Qualifications

BA Open University
MA University of Cambridge Institute of Education and University of East Anglia
MA University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education
Part-time PhD student (ESRC funded)

Membership of Professional Bodies and Associations

Association of Teachers and Lecturers
United Kingdom Literacy Association
Into Film

Supervisors

Neil Mercer – Main supervisor
Fiona Maine - Advisor

Profile

Veronica Hanke was a primary school teacher with a special interest in literacy learning in the Early Years. As a teacher researcher in the Teacher’s Understanding of Literacy in Primary Schools project she devised an innovative visual methodology for interviewing young children about their responses to and understandings of literacy learning in school. She has gone on to develop this methodology, ‘co-authored drawing’, for a MA and currently in a PhD study. Through this work she has become interested in the possibilities and difficulties of teaching ‘guided reading’ in English primary schools. 

Although she is no longer a classroom teacher she organises a vibrant Film Club in a local primary school.

Research Topics and Projects

Teaching and learning of reading in primary schools
Young pupil perspectives on their experience of school
Visual methodologies
Guided reading

Publications

Hanke, V. (2013) Guided reading: young pupils’ perspectives on classroom practice. Literacy. In press.

Hanke, V. (2000) Learning about Literacy: Children’s Versions of the Literacy Hour. Journal of Research in Reading, 23 (3) 287-297.