Kate Heron Pahl (born 1962) is Professor of Literacies and Head of Education and Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her work draws on arts and humanities methodologies to co-produce knowledge with community partners and the intersections between arts methodologies and community cohesion. Her publications have drawn on literary theory, New Literacy Studies and social anthropology.
Books
Pahl, Kate (1999). Transformations: Children's Meaning Making in a Nursery. Trentham Books. ISBN9781858560984.
Pahl, Kate; Rowsell, Jennifer (2005). Literacy and Education: Understanding the New Literacy Studies in the Classroom. Paul Chapman Publishing. ISBN9781412901130.
Pahl, Kate; Rowsell, Jennifer (2010). Artifactual Literacies: Every Object Tells a Story. Teachers College Press. ISBN9780807751329.
Grenfell, Michael; Bloome, David; Hardy, Cheryl; Pahl, Kate; Rowsell, Jennifer; Street, Brian (2012). Bourdieu, Language-Based Ethnographies and Reflexivity. Routledge. ISBN9780415872492.
Pahl, Kate (2014). Materializing literacies in communities: The uses of literacy revisited. Bloomsbury. ISBN9780567469618.
↑Fast, Carina (April 2007). "Book Review: Literacy and Education:Understanding the New Literacy Studies in the Classroom". Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. 7 (1): 115–117. doi:10.1177/1468798407074841. S2CID144525555.
↑Peel, Anne J. (2012). "Book reviews Language, ethnography, and education: bridging new literacy studies and Bourdieu, by Michael Grenfell, David Bloome, Cheryl Hardy, Kate Pahl, Jennifer Rowsell and Brian Street". Pedagogies. 7 (3): 268–271. doi:10.1080/1554480X.2012.685798. S2CID142752263.
↑Ferguson, Daniel E. (2016). "Kate Pahl, Materializing literacies in communities: The uses of literacy revisited". Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. 16 (3): 414–417. doi:10.1177/1468798415622607. S2CID151637854.