Dr Rafaela Cleeve Gerkens
Lecturer in Primary Language & Literacy Education
Faculty of Education
8 Scholarly works
2 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2026
Research grants (other domestic)
Restoring Cultural Memory: Intergenerational Theatre in a Digital Age
2026
Journal article
Making multilingual students’ analytical thinking visible
DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2026.26295962026
Book Chapter
Drama-Rich Translanguaging for Multilingual Meaning-Making
DOI: 10.4324/9781003655664-62025
Journal article
Multilingual authors ‘standing taller’ in arts-rich translanguaging spaces
DOI: 10.1080/09500782.2024.23485992025
Journal article
Sustaining a translanguaging community of practice: a narrative inquiry by teacher educators
DOI: 10.1080/1359866X.2025.24957722024
Journal article
Using drama to enrich a genre-based pedagogy for teaching academic writing across content areas
DOI: 10.1007/s44020-024-00072-82023
Internal Research Grant
Publishing in the Margins: A Transnational Investigation of Arts-Rich Book-Making for Multilingual Literacy Development
RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS
2024
Journal article
“My Book Ideas were Spinning in my Head”: Arts-Rich Bookmaking Experiences to Create and Sustain Multilingual Children's Meaning Making Flows and Authorial Voices
DOI: 10.1002/tesq.32792024
Journal article
Reflecting on embodied experience through an expert lens: drama as a pedagogic tool for developing academic language proficiency in the middle-primary school
DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2023.22886472022
Thesis / Dissertation
Drama as a Pedagogic Tool for Developing Academic Language Proficiency in the Middle Primary School