Dr Kerryn Dixon
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Associate Professor, School of Education, the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Profile
Kerryn Dixon is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is a scholar of critical language and literacy studies with a focus on early childhood. Her work explores has focused on the ways in which critical approaches to language and literacy can be harnessed in teacher education. She is particularly interested in the ways in which children make meaning of their worlds and works with theories and methodologies that are attuned to tracing the circulation of power relations
Research
Publications
- Lehner-Mear, R., Dixon, K., Xu, Y., Gripton, C., & Cooker, L. (2026). Gender as an issue of curricular (in)justice: A review of national early childhood education curriculum documents in England from 1996 to 2021. The Curriculum Journal, 37(1), 88-106.
- Dixon, K., Murris, K., Peers, J., Giorza, T., & Lawrence, C. (2025). Postdigital Play and Global Education: Reconfiguring Research. London: Routledge.
- Dixon, K. (2023) Transnational Digital Literacies and Transitory Opportunities: a perspective from the global south. In C. Brock. B. Exley, I. Rigney (Eds.) International Perspectives on Literacies, Diversities, and Opportunities for Learning: Critical Conversations. Routledge.