Kate Heron Pahl[1] (born 1962) is Professor of Literacies and Head of Education and Social Research Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University.[2][3] Her work draws on arts and humanities methodologies to co-produce knowledge with community partners and the intersections between arts methodologies and community cohesion.[4] 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.[5]
Pahl, Kate; Rowsell, Jennifer (2005). Literacy and Education: Understanding the New Literacy Studies in the Classroom. Paul Chapman Publishing. ISBN9781412901130.[6]
Pahl, Kate; Rowsell, Jennifer (2010). Artifactual Literacies: Every Object Tells a Story. Teachers College Press. ISBN9780807751329.[7][8]
Grenfell, Michael; Bloome, David; Hardy, Cheryl; Pahl, Kate; Rowsell, Jennifer; Street, Brian (2012). Bourdieu, Language-Based Ethnographies and Reflexivity. Routledge. ISBN9780415872492.[9]
Pahl, Kate (2014). Materializing literacies in communities: The uses of literacy revisited. Bloomsbury. ISBN9780567469618.[10]
^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.