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Emma Cooper

Emma Cooper

University Assistant Professor

Qualifications

  • 2019 - PhD (Education) Western University
  • 2013 - MT (Master of Teaching) OISE/University of Toronto
  • 2011 - Honours BA University of Toronto

Memberships/Professional Bodies

 

  • Fellow (College Tutor, Director of Studies [shared]), Robinson College 
  • Multimodal Dialogue Research Strand, CEDiR Research Cluster, Faculty of Education

Personal profile

Emma’s research interests include curriculum studies, multimodal literacies, and social semiotics. She is primarily interested in and motivated by contributing to research that fosters inclusive meaning making opportunities for children through the transformation of literacy curricula and pedagogies. Emma is currently involved in research projects focused on object-based dialogue and academic reading pedagogies.

Undergraduate 

  • Education Tripos Supervisor

Postgraduate

  • Primary PGCE (English, Professional Studies, Personal and Placement Tutor)
  • MEd and MPhil (Primary Education)
  • PhD/EdD (Supervisor, Examiner, Assessor)
  • I am unable to accept PhD supervision requests for October 2027 intake

Research Topics

  • Multimodal literacies/pedagogies
  • Social semiotics
  • Curriculum studies
  • Initial teacher education (literacy)

Current Research Project(s)

  • Project: Reading pedagogies of equity, PI: R. Heydon 
  • Talking objects- Deepening understanding about informal, multimodal, dialogic learning in arts and cultural heritage spaces (with K. Noble and A. Twiner) 

Heydon, R., McKee, L., Akiwenzie, E., Cooper, E., Johns, B., McKenzie, P., McTavish, M.,
Poczobut, S., Ruthes Coelho, C., Viczko, M., & Zhang, Z. (in press). Reading and equity in teacher education: An exploratory study. Journal of Literacy Research.

Heydon, R., Akiwenzie, E., Cooper, E., Ghannoum, H., Havord-Wier, D., Johns, B., MacAlpine, KA., McKee, L., Nagle, J., Neeganagwedgin, E., Pawlick-Potts, D., Poczobut, S., Ruthes Coelho, C., Stooke, A., Tran, A., & Zhang, Z. (2023). Guidelines for virtual early childhood and family learning: An equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization-informed systematic review of the literature. Journal of Early Childhood Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/1476718X2311884

Zhang, Z., Heydon, R., & Cooper, E. (2023). Household curricula during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Collective Biography. British Educational Research Association (BERA) Blog. https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/household-curricula-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-collective-biography

Cooper, E., & McKee, L. (2021). Leadership, management, and governance. In R. Heydon (Regional Ed.), M. Waniganayake (Ed.-in-Chief), Bloomsbury education and childhood studies (Vol. Canada, Set: Early Childhood Education). Bloomsbury.

Ghannoum, H., & Cooper, E. (2020). [Review of the book Multimodal perspectives of language, literacy, and learning in early childhood: The creative and critical ‘art’ of making meaning, by Marilyn J Narey (Ed.)]. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468798419896156

Heydon, R., Eaton, C., Black, S., Cooper, E., & O’Neill, S. (2020). Intergenerational singing and wellbeing. In R. Heydon, D. Fancourt, & A.J. Cohen (Eds.), The Routledge companion to interdisciplinary studies in singing (Volume 3, Chapter 27). Routledge.

Heydon, R., Stooke, R., Cameron, A., Cooper, E., & O’Neill, S. (2020). Making visible the literacy practices of elders through the day in the life methodology: Considerations for literacy education across the lifespan. Literacy, 54(2), 60-68. https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12208

Cooper, E., & Heydon, R. (2019). Inclusion and marginalization of youth. In R. Heydon (Regional Ed.), K. Tilleczek (Ed.-in-Chief) Bloomsbury education and childhood studies (Vol. Canada, Set: Youth). Bloomsbury.

Heydon, R., & Cooper, E. (2019). Introduction to Canada. In R. Heydon (Regional Ed.), W.M. Corsaro (Ed.-in-Chief), Bloomsbury education and childhood studies (Vol. Canada, Set: Childhood). Bloomsbury.

Khattar, R., Callaghan, K., & Cooper, E. (2019). Initial teacher education. In R. Heydon (Regional Ed.), M. Waniganayake (Ed.-in-Chief), Bloomsbury education and childhood studies (Vol. Canada, Set: Early Childhood Education). Bloomsbury.

Khattar, R., Heydon, R., Cooper, E., & Callaghan, K. (2019). Seeing over the wall: Growing policy from learning with families in contexts. In L. Gibbs & M. Gasper (Eds.), Challenging the intersection of policy with pedagogy (pp. 107-123). Routledge.