Diane R. Collier
Diane R. Collier is an Associate Professor at Brock University.
Diane researches in the areas of multimodality and everyday literacies, and is especially interested in collaborative, participatory research with children and others. Formerly an elementary classroom teacher and literacy specialist, she now leads literacies curriculum in Teacher Education at Brock University. Using arts-informed/visual, qualitative, and ethnographic methodologies, her work focuses on literacies-in-process and playful improvisation. She researches how children use everyday texts (particularly images and elements of popular culture) to connect with audiences both globally and locally, across home and school. Current research focuses on children as co-researchers, inquiry pedagogies, and how photography practices can be viewed as communicative literacies for connecting for with others globally and locally.
