Teresa Cremin is Professor of Education (Literacy) at The Open University, UK. An ex-teacher and teacher educator, her research focuses on teachers’ literate identities and practices, children’s volitional reading and writing and creative pedagogies. A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the RSA and the English Association, Teresa co-edits the journal Thinking Skills and Creativity. Recent edited /authored books include ‘Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing’; ‘Storytelling in Early Childhood’; ‘Researching Literacy Lives’ and ‘Building Communities of Engaged Readers’ (Routledge). Teresa leads a professional user-community website based on her research into volitional reading. https://researchrichpedagogies.org/research/reading-for-pleasure
