Publications

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Journal Articles

  1. Loh, C. E. & Binny, A. L. (2024) “I use the library sometimes just to lose myself”: School libraries supporting students’ wellbeing and flourishing. IFLA Journal, online first.

  2. Loh, C. E., Cremin, T. & Scholes, L. (2024) Special Issue Editorial - What is the future of young people’s reading? Exploring diverse perspectives. Language and Education. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09500782.2024.2337659

  3. Loh, C. E. (2024) What makes adolescents want to read? Examining adolescents’ contemporary print and new media (fiction) leisure reading through mobile ethnography. Language & Education Special Issue. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2024.2326099.

  4. Gan, S. & Loh, C. E. (2024) ‘I feel like my awareness grew’: fostering dialogues to increase awareness through virtual book clubs. Changing English https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684X.2024.2358023

  5. Lim, F. V., Loh, C. E. & Teravainen, T. (2024) Adolescents’ use of digital media during the pandemic: implications for literacy. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. DOI: 10.1002/jaal.1353

  6. Loh, C. E., Binte Rosli, N. S. & Krishnan, M. Z. (2024) Not just reading the romance online: adolescent girls reading Korean Manhwa. Changing English, https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684X.2024.2305431.

  7. Loh, C. E. (2023) Designing Future-ready school libraries: empowering stakeholders for evidence-based chance. Journal of Australian Library and Information Association https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2023.2231229.

  8. Loh, C. E., Sun, B. & Lim, V. F. (2023)”Because I am always moving”: A mobile ethnography study of adolescent girls’ everyday print and digital reading practices. Learning, Media and Technology Special Issue, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2023.2209325

  9. Loh, C. E., Sun, B. & Weninger, C. (2023) “Because I have my phone with me all the time”: The Role of Device Access in Developing Singapore Adolescents’ Critical News Literacy. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 66(5), 319-329.

  10. Loh, C. E., Gan, S. & Mounsey, S. (2022) What Do Children Want to Read? A Case Study of How One Primary School Supported Reading for Pleasure. Journal of Library Administration, early view.

  11. Loh, C. E., Sun, B. & Leong, C.H. (2022) Reading Identities, Mobilities, and Reading Futures: Critical Spatial Perspectives on Adolescent Access to Literacy Resources. Harvard Educational Review 92(1), 55-85.

  12. Loh, C. E. & Sun, B. (2022) The impact of technology use on adolescents’ leisure reading preferences. Literacy, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/lit.12282

  13. Loh, C. E., Hamarian, E. B., Lim, L. Y. Q., Lim, Q. & Ng, S. Y. Z. (2021) A Case Study of Developing Future-Ready School Libraries through Design Thinking. IFLA Journal, 47(4):505-519.

  14. Sun, B., Loh, C. E., O’Brien, B. & Silver, R. E. (2021) The Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Bilingual Singaporean Children’s Leisure Reading. AERA Open.

  15. Loh, C. E., Merga, M., Sundaray, S., & Gao, J. (2021) Principals and Teachers’ Perspectives of their School Libraries and Implications for School Library Policy. Journal of Library Administration 61(5), 550-571.

  16. Sun, B., Loh, C. E. & Nie, Y. (2021) The COVID-19 School Closure Effect on Students’ Print and Digital Leisure Reading. Computers and Education Open, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2021.100033.

  17. Merga, M. K., Roni, S. M., Loh, C. E. & Malpique, A. (2021) Revisiting collaboration within and beyond the school library: new ways of measuring effectiveness. Journal of Library Administration, 61(3), 332-346.

  18. Sun, B., Loh, C. E. & Curdt-Christiansen, X. L. (2020) Leisure reading in multilingual Singapore: reading enjoyment, habits and preferences of Singaporean children. Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices 2, 1-20.

  19. Loh, C. E. & Sun, B. (2020). Cultural capital, habitus and reading futures: middle-class students’ networks for cultivating reading identities. British Journal of Sociology of Educatio 41(2), 234-252.

  20. Loh, C. E., Sun, B. & Majid, S. (2020). Do girls read differently from boys? adolescents and their gendered reading habits and preferences. English in Education 54(2), 174-190.

  21. Loh, C. E. (2019). Mapping images of reading through visual juxtaposition (Invited Contribution, Special Issue: Visualising the City). Visual Ethnography 8(1), 31-43.

  22. Nichols, S. & Loh, C. E.(2019). Making reading sociability visible through collaborative photograph analysis. Changing English, DOI:10.1080/1358684X.2019.1570818.3.

  23. Loh, C. E., Heng, T. & Wan, Z. (2019). Discipline and desire in spaces of reading. Cultural Geographies in Practice, DOI:10.1177/1474474018824085. 

  24. Loh, C. E. & Sun, B., (2019). “I’d still prefer to read the hard copy”: adolescents’ print and digital reading habits. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 62(6), 663-672, DOI:10.1002/jaal.904.

  25. Loh, C. E. (2018). Change and continuity in the Singapore Literature-In-English curriculum. Changing English 25(1), 85-96.

  26. Loh, C. E., Ellis, M., Paculdar, A. & Wan, Z. (2017). Building a successful reading culture through the school library: a case study from Singapore. IFLA Journal 43(4), 335-347.

  27. Loh, C. E.& Liew, W. M. (2016). Voices from the ground: the emotional labour of English teachers’ work. Teaching and Teacher Education 55, 267-278. DOI:10.1016/j.tate.2016.01.016.

  28. Loh, C. E.(2016). Leveling the reading gap: a socio-spatial study of school libraries and reading in Singapore. Literacy 50(1), 3-13. 

  29. Loh, C. E.(2015). Building a reading culture in a Singapore school: identifying spaces for change through a socio-spatial approach. Changing English 22(2), 209-221.

  30. Loh, C. E. (2015). Mapping library spaces: measuring the effectiveness of school libraries using a socio-spatial approach. The School Librarian 63(2), 78-80.

  31. Loh, C. E.(2013). Singaporean boys constructing global literate selves through their reading practices in and out of school. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 44(1), 38-57.

  32. Loh, C. E.(2012). Global and national imaginings: deparochialising the IBDP English A1 curriculum. Changing English 19(2), 221-235. 

  33. Loh, C. E.(2010). Reading nation and world: cultivating culturally and critically reflexive readers. English Journal 100(1), 108-112.

  34. Loh, C. E.(2009). Reading the world: reconceptualizing reading multicultural literature in the United States English Language classroom in a global world. Changing English16(3), 287-299. DOI: 10.1080/13586840903194755.

Books

The Reading Lives of Teens: Research and Practice. 2025, Routledge: Singapore.

Poetry Moves: An Anthology of Poetry. 2020, Ethos Books, Singapore

Literature Education in the Asia-Pacific: Policies, Practices and Perspectives in Global Times. 2018, Routledge, London & New York

The Space and Practice of Reading: A Case Study of Reading and Social Class in Singapore. 2017, Routledge, London & New York

Teaching Poetry to Adolescents: A Teachers’ Guide to Little Things. 2013, Ethos Books, Singapore

Little Things: An Anthology of Poetry. 2013, Ethos Books, Singapore

Teaching Literature in Singapore Secondary Schools. 2013. Pearson Books.

Book Chapters

  1. Loh, C. E. (2023) Reading as self-making: using mobile ethnography to examine the contemporary literate practices of middle-class adolescent girls in Singapore. In Rosen, M. (2023) Ethnography at Thirty. Palgrave.

  2. Loh, C. E. & Pang, E. (2022) Innovating towards reading excellence in the Singapore English language Curriculum. In Lee Y. J. (ed). Education in Singapore. Springer.

  3. Loh, C. E. (2021) Reading Singapore from past to present and predictions for Singapore’s reading futures: an exploratory autoethnography. In Chong, S. E. (ed). Charting an Asian trajectory for literacy education: connection past, present and future literacies. Routledge.

  4. Loh, C. E. (2021) Making work count: the journey towards meaningful work. In Mahat, M. (Ed.) Women thriving in academia. Emerald.

  5. Loh, C. E., Seow, T. & Rajan, C. (2021) A sense of place: understanding place through cross-disciplinary field-based inquiry learning. In Sim, Y. H. & Sim, H. H. (Eds). Humanities fieldtrips. Routledge.

  6. Loh, C. E. (2020). Writing to learn strategies for teaching literature. In Yeo, D., Ang, A. & Choo, S. (2019) The world, the text, and the classroom: teaching literature in Singapore secondary schools (2nd Edition)(pp. 139-151). Pearson.

  7. Loh, C. E. (2019). Cultivating joyful reading in our schools.In R. L. Wong (Ed.) (2019). Skyscrapers, books and imagination: the evolving children’s literature landscape in Singapore. Singapore Book Council.

  8. Loh, C. E.,Choo, S. & Beavis, C. (2018). Globalizing literature education in the Asia-Pacific: remapping the boundaries. In Loh, C. E.,Choo, S. & Beavis, C. (Eds.) Literature education in the Asia-Pacific: policies, practices and perspectives in global times(pp. 194-210). Routledge.

  9. Loh, C. E. (2018). The poetry of place, the place of poetry: the promise and perils of a place-based literary pedagogy in the Singapore literature classroom. In Loh, C. E., Choo, S. & Beavis, C. (Eds.) Literature education in the Asia-Pacific: policies, practices and perspectives in global times(pp. 1-13). Routledge.

  10. Loh, C. E. (2015). Elite schoolboys becoming global citizens: examining the practice of habitus. In Kenway, J. & Koh, A. (Eds.) Elite schools: multiple geographies of privilege(pp. 70-86). Routledge.

  11. Loh, C. E. (2013). Mapping the development of Literature in English in Singapore secondary schools from 1997 to 2012. In Loh, C. E., Yeo, D. & Liew, W. M. (2013) Teaching Literature in Singapore secondary schools(pp. 20-33). Pearson.

  12. Loh, C. E.,Yeo, D. & Liew, W. M. (2013). Introduction. In Loh, C. E., Yeo, D. & Liew, W. M. (2013) Teaching Literature in Singapore secondary schools (pp. 1-5). Pearson.

Technical Reports

  1. Loh, C. E. & Sun, B. (2022) Reading habits of Singapore teens 2021. Singapore: OER, NIE.

  2. Sun, B. & Loh, C. E. (2021) Report on the reading habits of bilingual children in Singapore 2021. Singapore: OER, NIE.

  3. Loh, C. E. (2020) Design patterns for school libraries: a preliminary report 2019. Singapore: OER, NIE.

  4. Loh, C. E. (2019). School libraries of the future: a twenty-first century framework. Singapore: OER, NIE.

  5. Loh, C. E.& Sundaray, S. (2019). School library perspectives survey report 2018. Singapore: OER, NIE. Download here.

  6. Loh, C. E. & Sun, B. (2018). Report on the reading habits of Singapore teenagers 2017. Singapore: OER, NIE.

  7. Liew, W. M. & Loh, C. E. (2017) What can English Teachers Tell Us about the Emotional Demands of their Work? NIE Research Brief Series No. 16-004. Singapore National Institute of Education. Download here.

Other Publications

  1. Loh, C. E. (2023, OCT) Making space in the library: considerations for design and furniture choices to support student wellbeing. Synergy.

  2. Loh, C. E. (2023, MAY) Print books: how physical books still matter in a digital world. Synergy.

  3. Loh, C. E. & Sun, B. (2022, DEC) 浅议广泛阅读的四组要素. 语言战略研究, 华文老师 , 66, 4-7. Exploring the four essential elements of extensive reading. Chinese Teacher, 66, 4-7

  4. Loh, C. E. (2022, MAR) Making the Invisible Visible. Bourdieu in Educational Research: Bourdieu, Family and Schooling. AERA.

  5. Loh, C. E. & Sun, B. (2021, AUG) The impact of technology use on students’ independent reading habits and practices. OER Knowledge Bites 14, 5-6 9 (What is the Future of Reading? The Power of Pleasure).

  6. Vahid, A. & Loh, C. E. (2020, MAR) An Introduction to the Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment System. OER Knowledge Bites (Leveraging Assessment in a Differentiated Classroom).

  7. Belmonte, T. & Loh, C. E.(2020, JAN). Developing the school library book collection for adolescents. OER Knowledge Bites 11.

  8. Loh, C. E., Paculdar, A., & Wan, Z. (2017, APR). The Building a Reading Culture (BRC) roundtable on school libraries and design: how design can help us rethink library spaces. OER Knowledge Bites 3, 3, 1-12.

  9. Loh, C. E.(2016, JAN). Innovation and educational spaces: how design can revitalize our school libraries and learning. OER Knowledge Bites, 1, 19-22.

  10. Loh, C. E.(2016). The memory of reading. Biblioasia 11(5), 3-7.