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Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges

Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges

Position/Status
Senior Lecturer in Education

E-mail Address: gc234@cam.ac.uk

Phone: 01223 767638

Qualifications
BA, PGCE, MA

Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
NATE
UKLA

Profile

Gabrielle Cliff Hodges taught in three 11-18 comprehensive schools in Cambridgeshire, in the last as Head of English, before moving into teacher education at Homerton College in 1993 and subsequently the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education in 2001. She co-ordinates and teaches on the Secondary English and Drama PGCE course, as well as contributing to the MEd Researching Practice in Primary and Secondary Schools: Early Career Teachers and MPhil Approaches to Children's Literature. She is active in the United Kingdom Literacy Association and the National Association for the Teaching of English, including two years as Chair of NATE from 1996-8 during which time she was centrally involved in national debates about the teaching of English and literacy and the future of English as a curriculum subject.

Academic Area/Links

  • English
  • Literacy
  • Drama
  • Secondary Education

Research Topics

  • English teaching
  • Reading in the secondary age range, especially key stage 3.

Current Research Projects

Her current research focuses on students' development as readers and aims to discover more about the social and intellectual processes involved. She is interested in students' own views about what motivates and supports their development as competent, habitual readers who read for a variety of purposes and pleasures, both within and beyond the context of school.

Course Involvement

  • Secondary PGCE: English and Drama
  • MEd: Researching Practice in Primary and Secondary Schools: Early Career Teachers
  • MPhil: Approaches to Children's Literature
  • Certificate of Initial Teacher Training Mentoring

Publications

Cliff Hodges, G. (2000) 'Trafficking in Human Possibilities' in Cliff Hodges, G., Drummond, M.J. & Styles, M. (eds) Tales, Tellers and Texts. London Cassell, 1-11.

Bearne, E. & Cliff Hodges, G. (2000) 'Reading rights and responsibilities' in Davison, J. & Moss, J. (eds) Issues in English teaching. London: Routledge, 8-22.

Cliff Hodges, G., Moss, J. & Shreeve, A. (2000) 'The future of English'. English in Education 34 (1), 1-11.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2000) 'English in the revised National Curriculum'. Education Today 50 (3), 3-8.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2002) 'Learning through collaborative writing'. Reading, Literacy and Language 36 (1), 4-10.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2002) 'Practising the imagination'. Secondary English Magazine 6 (2) 25-8.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2003) 'Speaking and listening' in Davison, J. & Dowson, J. (eds) Learning to teach English in the secondary school - 2nd edition. London: Routledge, 87-108.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2003 2nd edition) 'Possibilities with poetry' in Davison, J. & Dowson, J. (eds) Learning to teach English in the secondary school - 2nd edition. London: Routledge, 238-262.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2003) 'Use of language in the school and classroom' in Beck, J. & Earl, M. (eds) Key issues in secondary education - 2nd edition. London: Continuum, 60-71.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2005) 'The reader, the poem and the camcorder: using camcorders as notebooks for the study of poetry'. English Teaching: Practice and Critique 4 (1) 70-80.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2005) 'Creativity in Education'. English in Education 39 (3) 47-61.

Stevens, D., Cliff Hodges, G., Gibbons, S., Hunt, P., Turvey, A. (2006) 'Transformations in learning and teaching through Initial TeacherEducation'. Literacy 40 (2) 97-105.