Peter Hannon B.Sc, B.A., Ph.D
Emeritus Professor of Education
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 8117
Fax: (+44) (0)114 279 6236
Email: p.hannon@Sheffield.ac.uk
Room: 7.11
Research
Peter Hannon's research and teaching interests are in early childhood education; learning; intervention; literacy, particularly in the early years; and family learning.
REAL (Raising Early Achievement in Literacy) Project: In this project, carried out in Sheffield with Cathy Nutbrown, also in the School of Education, and many other collaborators, a preschool, parent involvement literacy intervention programme has been developed and evaluated. The programme was based upon the ORIM framework (Hannon, 1995) which has been taken up by other educators in the UK and internationally. Several schools, and several hundred families, were involved in the project. The positive impact of the REAL programme on children and parents was demonstrated through qualitative studies and also by means of a randomised control trial. Findings from the project are reported in articles and in the book, Early Literacy Work with Families, listed below.
Early childhood programmes: Peter has had a longstanding interest in provision, services and programmes for young children and their families, particularly in disadvantaged communities. His collaboration with colleagues in studies of a local Sure Start programme, including practitioner research, led to the edited collection, Learning from Sure Start, listed below. A current project, led by the National Children's Bureau in collaboration with the School, is rolling out the REAL programme in two UK local authority areas.
Learning: The above research into developmental intervention in mainly non-institutional settings, together with studies of the implications of developmental neuroscience and a study of community focused provision for adults, has led Peter to reconsider and review models of learning in education. This forms the basis of his current research.
Teaching
Peter´s main teaching is research student supervision. He also contributes occasional sessions to the the MA in Early Childhood Education and EdD programmes.
Activities
- Conference presentations at Canadian National Family Literacy Conference (2010), American Educational Research Annual Meeting, Chicago (2007), European Early Childhood Education Research Association Annual Conference, Prague (2007), British Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Glamorgan (2005), International Reading Association World Congress, Edinburgh (2002), Scientific Commission of the International Association of Applied Linguistics International Literacy Conference, Cape Town (2001)
Publications
Books
Nutbrown, C., Hannon, P., and Morgan, A. (2005) Early Literacy Work with Families: Policy, Practice and Research. London: SAGE Publications.
Weinberger, J., Pickstone, C., and Hannon, P. (Eds.) (2005) Learning from Sure Start: working with young children and their families. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
Hannon, P. (2000) Reflecting on Literacy in Education, London: RoutledgeFalmer.
Hannon, P. (1995) Literacy, Home and School: Research and Practice in Teaching Literacy with Parents, London: Falmer Press.
Some articles and chapters
Hannon, P., Pickstone, C. Suckling, R., and Crofts, D. (2008) The reach of early intervention: a case study of a Sure Start programme. Evidence and Policy, 4 (3), 205-225
Hannon, P., Morgan, A., and Nutbrown, C. (2006) Parents´ perspectives on a family literacy programme. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 3(3), 19-44.
Hannon, P., and Fox, L. (2005) Why we should learn from Sure Start. In J. Weinberger, C. Pickstone and P. Hannon (Eds.) Learning from Sure Start: working with young children and their families. Maidenhead: Open University Press. pp.3 12.
Hannon, P., and Bird, V. (2004) Family literacy in England: theory, practice, research and policy. In Wasik, B.H. (Ed.) Handbook of family literacy: research and practice. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pp. 23 39.
Hannon, P. (2003) Family literacy programmes. In Hall, N., Larson, J., and Marsh, J. (Eds.) Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy. London / Thousand Oaks CA: SAGE. pp. 99 111.
Hannon, P. (2003) The history and future of literacy. In T. Grainger (Ed.) The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Language and Literacy. London: RoutledgeFalmer, pp.19 32.
Hannon, P. (2003) Developmental Neuroscience: Implications for early childhood intervention and education. Current Paediatrics, 13 (1), 58-63