Gabrielle Cliff Hodges

Position/Status

University Senior Lecturer in Education

E-mail Address

gc234@cam.ac.uk

Phone

01223 767638

Qualifications
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations

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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 / English & Drama PGCE courses, as well as contributing to the MEd in Researching Practice and MPhil in Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. She is an Executive Council member of the United Kingdom Literacy Association. She is also active in the National Association for the Teaching of English as a member of the Initial Teacher Education Committee. She was 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.

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Research Interests

Recent Research Projects

Her recent research has focused 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 committed, habitual readers who read for a variety of purposes and pleasures, both within and beyond the context of school.

She is also a member of the interdisciplinary team working on the wREPLACE research project exploring children's place-based identities through reading and writing. 

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Course Involvement

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Publications

Charlton, E., Wyse, D., Cliff Hodges, G., Nikolajeva, M., Pointon, P. & Taylor, L. (2011). Place-related identities through texts: From interdisciplinary theory to research agenda. British Journal of Educational Studies, 59 (1) 63-74.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2011). Textual drama: The value of reading aloud. EnglishDramaMedia, Issue 19 19-26.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2010). Rivers of reading: Using critical incident collages to learn about adolescent readers and their readership. English in Education, 44 (3) 181-200. 

Cliff Hodges, G., Nikolajeva, M. & Taylor, L. (2010). Three walks through fictional fens: Multidisciplinary perspectives on Gaffer Samson's Luck. Children's Literature in Education, 41 (3) 189-206.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2010). Reasons for reading: Why literature matters. Literacy, 44 (2) 60-68.

Cliff Hodges, G., Binney, A. & Evans, E. (2010). Planning for Innovation in English Teaching. Leicester: UKLA.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2009). Children as readers. Education 3-13, 37 (2)165-176.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2009). Speaking and listening, in J. Davison & J. Dowson (Eds) Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School (3rd edition) (79-102). London: Routledge.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2009). Possibilities with poetry, in J. Davison & J. Dowson (Eds) Learning to Teach English in the Secondary School (3rd edition) (260-286). London: Routledge.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2008). Guest editor/editorial. English in Education, 42 (1) 1-5 Special edition: Teaching Literature.

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

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.

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

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

Bearne, E. & Cliff Hodges, G. (2000) Reading rights and responsibilities, in J. Davison & J. Moss (Eds) Issues in English Teaching. London: Routledge.

Cliff Hodges, G. (2000). Trafficking in human possibilities, in G. Cliff Hodges, M. J. Drummond & M. Styles (Eds) Tales, Tellers and Texts. London: Cassell.