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Jackson, Lace M. (2024). Global Majority Leadership: The Experience and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan.

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Adinolfi, Lina; Bhattacharya, Usree and Phyak, Prem eds. (2022). Multilingual Education in South Asia: At the Intersection of Policy and Practice. Oxford: Routledge.

Cremin, Teresa and McGeown, Sarah eds. (2025). Reading for Pleasure : International Perspectives. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Aggleton, Jen; Carter, Carol and Grieve, Mary Rose (2023). Reading Librarians and school libraries. In: Cremin, Teresa; Hendry, Helen; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy and Kucirkova, Natalia eds. Reading Teachers: Nurturing Reading for Pleasure. London: Routledge, pp. 150–161.

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Chappell, Kerry; Cremin, Teresa and Crickmay, Ursula (2025). Creative Pedagogies in school. In: Lucas, Bill ed. Handbook of Creativity in Schools. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited [In Press].

Cremin, Teresa (2023). Reading Teachers and reading aloud. In: Batini,, Federico; Guisti, S and Mattiacci, G eds. Shared Reading Aloud: A method in the direction of equity. Perugia: Il Mulin (In press).

Cremin, Teresa and McGeown, Sarah (2025). Reading for pleasure: Exploring the Concept, the causes and consequences. In: Cremin, Teresa and McGeown, Sarah eds. Reading for pleasure: International Perspectives. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Dyer, Natalie; Mackenzie, Hollie; Teggi, Diana and de Vries, Patricia (2022). Pussy Riot Vs. Trump: Becoming Woman To Resist Becoming Fascist. In: Dolphijn, Rick and Braidotti, Rosi eds. Deleuze and Guattari and Fascism. Deleuze Connections. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 362–379.

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Hempel-Jorgensen, Amelia; Brassington, Tom and Dixon, Megan (2023). Exploring gender and reading for pleasure. In: Cremin, Teresa; Hendry, Helen; Rodriguez Leon, Lucy and Kucirkova, Natalia eds. Reading Teachers: Nurturing Reading for Pleasure. London: Routledge, pp. 45–55.

Mukherjee, Sarah Jane; McGreevy, Clare and Williams, Claire (2023). Celebrating reading. In: Cremin, Teresa; Hendry, Helen; Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy and Kucirkova, Natalia eds. Reading Teachers: Nurturing Reading for Pleasure. London: Routledge, pp. 176–197.

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Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy; Hulston, Samantha Jane; Hendry, Helen and Cremin, Teresa (2025). Informal Book Talk: how casual conversations support enjoyment of reading. In: Cremin, Teresa and McGeown, Sarah eds. Reading for pleasure: International Perspectives. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Cremin, Teresa (2023). Reading for pleasure: Recent research insights. School Libraries in View (SLIV)(47) pp. 6–12.

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Cremin, Teresa (2023). Motivation and reading: Focusing on disengaged readers. Teaching English(32) pp. 32–36.

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Cremin, Teresa (2024). Developing readers who choose to read. Practical Literacy: The Early and Primary Years, 29(3) pp. 10–13.

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Cremin, Teresa and Hendry, Helen (2022). Literacy histories as opportunities for learning: Reflecting, connecting, and learning from Margaret Meek Spencer. English in Education, 56(3) pp. 209–221.

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Cremin, Teresa; Mukherjee, Sarah Jane; Aerila, Juli‐Anna; Kauppinen, Merja; Siipola, Mari and Lähteelä, Johanna (2024). Widening Teachers' Reading Repertoires: Moving beyond a Popular Childhood Canon. The Reading Teacher, 77(6) pp. 833–841.

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Cremin, Teresa and Scholes, Laura (2024). Reading for pleasure: scrutinising the evidence base – benefits, tensions and recommendations. Language and Education, 38(4) pp. 537–559.

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Green, Melissa and Malcolm, Claire (2023). Degrees of change: the promise of anti-racist assessment. Frontiers in Sociology, 8, article no. 972036.

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Kucirkova, Natalia; Rodriguez Leon, Lucy and Chinula, Neema Mwenda (2023). Rethinking Agency in Literacies: Malawian children’s and teachers’ perspectives. International Journal of Early Years Education (Early access).

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Kucirkova, Natalia and Rodriguez-Leon, Lucy (2023). Multisensory Reading in Early Childhood: Systematic Review with Theoretical Guidance for Human Development Studies. Human Development, 67(4) pp. 193–210.

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Myhill, Debra; Cremin, Teresa and Oliver, Lucy (2023). The impact of a changed writing environment on students' motivation to write. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, article no. 1212940.

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Rodriguez Leon, Lucy (2021). Sensing and configuring the world with text: bringing neo-Vygotskian thinking into dialogue with more-than-human literacies in early childhood. Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of education, 44(2) pp. 253–268.

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Shield, Lesley and Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes (2004). Language learning websites; designing for usability. TEL & CAL: Zeitschrift für Neue Lernkulturen, 1. Quartal(Jänner2004) pp. 27–32.

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Chamberlain, Liz and Drane, Rob (2023). A whole school approach to the teaching of writing: Lessons learned from collaborative lesson research. In: Writing Matters, UKLA International Conference, 23-25 Jun 2023, Exeter, UK.

Cremin, Teresa; Chamberlain, Liz; Rowe, Deborah and Gardner, Paul (2023). Exploring aspects of being and becoming writers: A symposium exploring notions of being a writer, from a sociocultural perspective. In: Writing Matters. UKLA International Conference, 23-25 Jun 2023, Exeter, UK.

Cremin, Teresa (2023). Reading for pleasure and its impact on student outcomes. In SecEd SecED.

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Cremin, Teresa (2024). The Open University literacy research. Doorstep Library.

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Cremin, Teresa (2024). Writing poetry for pleasure. The Children's Poetry Summit.

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Cremin, Teresa (2024). Let’s talk about it: Reading for Pleasure and book talk. Collins, The Book Squad blog.

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Cremin, Teresa (2024). Reading attitudes matter: Do you know what your students think? SecEd.

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Cremin, Teresa; Hendry, Helen and Chamberlain, Liz (2023). Reading and Writing for Pleasure: A Framework for Practice. The Mercers' Company, London.

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Cremin, Teresa; Hendry, Helen; Chamberlain, Liz and Hulston, Samantha (2023). Approaches to Reading and Writing for Pleasure: An Executive Summary of the Research. The Mercers' Company, London.

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