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Publications:
McKinney-Lepp, M., Kaur, S. and Collier, D.R. (2024), Beyond Making Stuff: Co-Designing Literacies and Collaborating for Critical Empathy. Read Teach, 78: 140-150. Resource Link
Collier, D. R. (2024). Disrupting hybrid ethnographic positions in literacies research: A story of shifting digital relations while virtually ‘babysitting Diane.’ Digital Culture & Education, 15 (1), 1-21. Resource Link
Collier. D. R., Kaur, Simranjeet, McKinney-Lepp, M. & Rondinelli, Z. (2023). Screenshotting what’s important in video data: An experiment in collaborative, subjective analysis of artifactual, cultural research with children. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22, 14 pp. Resource Link
McKinney-Lepp., M. (2022). Nurturing empathy through critical media literacy and design thinking: Partnering pedagogy to build community. Master’s thesis.
Zholdoshalieva, R., Rowsell, J., Perry, M., Palacios Menos, N., Ramos, M., Collier, D. R., Abdulla, S., Medina, C., Bradley, L., Macleod, G. (2023, March). Webinar: Pluriversal literacies for sustainable and equitable worlds. UNESCO: Webinar
Collier, D. R. & Rowsell, J. (2020). Revealing, retelling, and remaking family photos. In K. Pahl, J. Rowsell, D. Collier, S. Pool & T. Trzecak. (Eds.) Living literacies: Literacy for social change. The MIT Press.
Collier, D. R. & Perry, M. (2020). Digital platforms alone don’t bridge youth divides. Published May 3, 2020, on The Conversation: Resource Link
Harwood, D., Barratt, J. & Collier, D. R. (2019). Entanglements in the forest: The orange GoPro camera and the children who wear them. Special Issue: Living within Precarious Times: Posthumanist Possibilities for Early Childhood Environmental Education. International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 7 (1), 57-72. Resource Link
Collier, D. R. (2019). Re-imagining research partnerships: Thinking through ‘co-research’ and ethical practice with young people, Special Issue, Studies in Social Justice, 13 (1), 40-58. Resource Link
Perry, M., Collier, D. R. & Rowsell, J. (2019). Reframing the digital in literacy: Youth, arts, and misperceptions. In E. Morrell & J. Rowsell (Eds.). Stories from inequity to justice in literacy education: Confronting digital divides (pp. 71-86). Routledge.
Harwood, D. & Collier, D. R. (2019). “Talk into my GoPro, I’m making a movie!”: Using digital ethnographic methods to explore children’s sociomaterial experiences in the. In N. Kucirkova & J. Rowsell (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of learning with technology in early childhood. Routledge.
Collier, Diane R. (2018). Doodling, borrowing, and remixing: Students inquiring across digitized spaces. Reading Teacher, 72(1), 125-130. Resource Link
Selected presentations:
We have also been presenting our work at various conferences – primarily at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada), the Literacy Research Association (USA), and the United Kingdom Literacy Association.
Collier, D. R., McKinney-Lepp, M., Kaur, Simranjeet & Ferdous, T. (2025, May). Building community through critical visual literacies: Making and reflecting on photographic texts (workshop). Canadian Society for the Study of Education, George Brown University, Toronto.
Collier, D. R, Perry, M., Zholdoshalieva, R., Ramos, M., Palacios Mena, N., Becerra, T., Abdulla, S., Bradley, L., Ptolomey, A., McKinney-Lepp, M. & Kaur, S.(2024, December). Symposium: Towards local, meaningful, and diverse literacies for sustainable and equitable futures. Literacy Research Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
Collier, D. R., McKinney-Lepp, M. & Kaur, S. (2024, December). Building selfies together: Collaborating through critical literacies encounters. Literacy Research Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
McKinney-Lepp, M., Kaur, S. & Collier, D. R. (2024, December). Co-designing literacies with children: Building critical empathy. Literacy Research Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
Collier, D. R. (2024, June). Virtually disrupting ethnographic practices in critical visual literacies research: Bracketing child-iPad-researcher assemblages. Sheffield Literacies and Language Conference 2024: Towards (extra)ordinary literacies and linguistic futures. Sheffield, UK.
Collier, D. R., McKinney-Lepp, M., Kaur, Simranjeet & Rondinelli, Z. (2023, May). Critical literacy: Children reading and writing images. A symposium on screenshotting video methods and collaborative composition in literacies. Canadian Society for the Study of Education, York University, Toronto.
Perry, M., Collier, D. R., McKinney-Lepp, M., Kandole, R., Rowsell, J. and Medina, C. (2022, December 2022). Highlighted session: What literacies count in an entangled and unequal world? Visual, situated, and sustainability literacy practises in diverse contexts. Symposium, Literacy Research Association Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.
Collier, D. R., Kaur, Simranjeet, McKinney-Lepp, M., and Rondinelli, Zachary. (2022, December). The “true” story of literacies researchers working with video data: Interrogating positionalities and interpreting across difference. Literacy Research Association Conference, Phoenix, Arizona.
McKinney-Lepp, M., Collier, D. R., Kaur, Simranjeet, Rondinelli, Z. (2022, July). Camper vans, hijabs, and birthday cakes: Composing cultural artifacts and collaborating with others by making photographic images. 58th Annual United Kingdom Literacy Association Conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Collier, D. R. (2022, July). Literacies-in-action and in-relation while composing family photographic images and texts. 58th Annual United Kingdom Literacy Association Conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
