Heydon, R., McTavish, M., Rajagopal, H. (under contract). Constructing Meanings: Literacies of flourishing in pre-K-8 Language Arts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Heydon, R., McTavish, M., & Bainbridge, J. (2022). Constructing meanings: Literacies pedagogies K-8 (7 ^th ed.). Nelson/TopHat.  

Heydon, R., & O’Neill, S. (2016). Why multimodal literacy matters: (Re)conceptualizing literacy and wellbeing through singing-infused multimodal, intergenerational curricula. Sense.

Bainbridge, J., & Heydon, R. (2015). Constructing meaning: Teaching language and literacy K-8 (6th ed.). Nelson. 

Heydon, R. (2013). Learning at the ends of life: Children, elders, and literacies in intergenerational curriculum. University of Toronto Press.

Bainbridge, J., & Heydon, R. (2013). Constructing meaning: Teaching language and literacy K-8 (5th ed.). Nelson.  

Bainbridge, J., Heydon, R., & Malicky, G. (2009). Constructing meaning: Balancing elementary language arts (4th ed.). Nelson.  

Priestley, M., Philippou, S., Heydon, R., & Lowe, K. (under contract). Curriculum making handbook. Bloomsbury.

Heydon, R., Fancourt, D., & Cohen, A. J. (Eds.). (2020). Routledge companion to interdisciplinary studies in singing: Vol 3. Well-being. Routledge.  

Hamilton, M., Heydon, R., Hibbert, K., & Stooke, R. (Eds.). (2015). Negotiating spaces for literacy learning: Multimodality and governmentality. Bloomsbury.   

Heydon, R. (Regional Ed.), & Waniganayake, M. (Ed.-in-Chief). (2018-2025). Set: Early childhood (Volume: Canada).  Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies. London:Bloomsbury.    

Heydon, R. (Regional Ed.), Menter, I., & Tatto, M. T. (Eds.-in-Chief). (2018-2025). Set: Primary education (Volume: Canada).  Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies. London:Bloomsbury.   

Heydon, R. (Regional Ed.), Tatto, M. T., & Menter, I (Eds.-in-Chief). (2018-2025). Set: Secondary education (Volume: Canada).  Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies. London:Bloomsbury.   

Heydon, R. (Regional Ed.), & Jacob, W. J. (Ed.-in-Chief). (2018-2025). Set: Higher education (Volume: Canada). Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies. London: Bloomsbury.   

Heydon, R. (Regional Ed.), & Corsaro, W. (Ed.-in-Chief). 2018-2025). Set: Childhood (Volume: Canada). Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies. London: Bloomsbury.   

Heydon, R. (Regional Ed.), & Tilleczek, K. (Ed.-in-Chief). (2018-2025). Set: Youth (Volume: Canada). Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies. London: Bloomsbury.  

Heydon, R., Zhang. Z, Poczobut, S., & Akiwenzie, E. (under contract). Negotiating spaces to breathe: Multimodality and academic literacies in the Anthropocene. In C. Eaton (Ed.). Multimodal knowledge making for a digital world. University of Toronto Press.

Heydon, R., Zhang, Z. (in press). Multilingualism and literacy learning: The conceptual evolution and scholarly impact of Jim Cummins. In S. K. Taylor & R. Kubota (Eds.). Festschrift for Dr. Jim Cummins. Multilingual Matters.

Zhang, Z., Heydon, R., & Li, W. (2026). Critical multimodality: A comparison of English and Mandarin literacy teachers’ pedagogical practices in a Chinese-Canadian transnational education program. In J. Zajda & S. Majhanovich (Ed.). Globalisation and educational practice for social justice. Springer.

Zhang, Z., Li, W., & Heydon, R. (2024). Literacy and identity in cross-border educational spaces: Students’ lived experience in a Canadian offshore school in a metropolitan city in China. In J. Zajda & S., Majhanovich (Eds.), Globalization  and Multicultural Education. Globalisation, comparative education and policy research, Volume 47 (pp. 135-153). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67137-1_7

Heydon, R., & Stooke, R. (2024). The sociomateriality of voice and its implications for research with children: Voice-as-event in an intergenerational art program. In M. C. Beaton, A. Burke, P. Keskitalo, & T. Turunen (Eds). Children's voice and agency in diverse settings: International research and perspectives (pp. 48-68). Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003360995-5. 

Heydon, R., McKee, L., & Stooke, R. (2022). Children, elders, and materials composing together: A qualitative study of two intergenerational art programs. In P. Crawford & M. Renck-Jalongo (Eds.), Intergenerational bonds: The contributions of older adults to young children’s lives (pp. 269–284). Dordrecht, NL: Springer Nature.

Heydon, R., McKee, L., & O’Neill, S. (2020). Connecting intergenerational voices: Curricula to foster the wellbeing of young children and elders. In R. Heydon, D. Fancourt, & A. J. Cohen (Eds.), Routledge companion to interdisciplinary studies in singing: Vol. 3. Well-being. Routledge.  

Heydon, R., & Davies, E. (2020). Experience. In J. Wearing, M. Ingersoll, C. DeLuca, B. Bolden, H. Ogden, & T. Christou (Eds.), Key concepts in curriculum studies: Perspectives on the fundamentals (pp. 90-95). Routledge.  

Khattar, R., Heydon, R., Cooper, E., & Callaghan, K. (2019). Embedding families and communities: Policy intersecting with pedagogy. In L. Gibbs & M. Gasper (Eds.), Thinking about pedagogy in early education: Policy intersecting pedagogy. Routledge.  

McKee, L., Heydon, R., & Davies, E. (2019). Making spaces in professional learning for democratic literacy education in the early years. In M. Hamilton & L. Tett (Eds.), Resisting the neo-liberal discourse in education: Local, national and transnational perspective (pp. 57-74). Policy Press.  

Heydon, R., & Davies, E. (2019). Intergenerationaling: Children, elders, and researchers making meaning. In D. Hodgins (Ed.), Feminist research for 21 ^st-century childhoods (pp. 63-72). Bloomsbury.   

Heydon, R., & Du, X. (2019). This is the stuff that identities are made of: Children learning with grandparents and other elders. In N. Kucirkova, J. Rowsell, & G. Falloon (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of learning with technology in early childhood (pp. 217-233). Routledge.  

Heydon, R., & Gagliardi, L.-M. (2019). Reconceptualizing early childhood art: The lessons of intergenerational art curricula and postdevelopmental theorizing. In J. Osgood & M. Sakr (Eds.), Postdevelopmental approaches to childhood art (pp. 87-110). Bloomsbury.   

Heydon, R., Zhang, Z., & Bocazar, B. (2017). Ethical curricula through responsive, multimodal literacy and pedagogy: Illustrations from a Kindergarten classroom curriculum. In C. Forlin & A. Gajewski (Eds.), International perspectives on inclusive education: Ethics, equity, and inclusive education (pp. 189-213). Emerald Publishing Limited.   

Zhang, Z., & Heydon, R. (2017). Being open to the other: K-12 teachers’ multimodal reflections on Hong Kong curricula. In S. Choo, R. Vinz, D. Sawch, & A. Villanueva (Eds.), Educating for twenty-first century global capacities: International perspectives and practices (pp. 425-445). Springer.   

Heydon, R., & O’Neill, S. (2017). Children, elders, and multimodal arts curricula: Semiotic possibilities and the imperative of relationship. In M. Narey (Ed.),  Multimodal perspectives of language, literacy, and learning in early childhood: The creative and critical “art” of making meaning (pp. 149-167). Springer.  

Du, X., Stooke, R., & Heydon, R. (2016). Ordinary objects tell extraordinary stories: Chinese children’s multimodal literacy explorations. In W. Ma & G. Li (Eds.), Beyond test scores: Understanding the hearts and minds of Chinese students in K-12 schools a global context (pp. 41-54). Routledge.

Liu, C., Heydon, R., Zhang, Z. (2025). Bilingualism and multilingualism. In R. Heydon (Regional Ed.). Set: Early Childhood Education (Volume: Canada). Bloomsbury education and childhood studies. Bloomsbury.  

Heydon, R. & Ruthes Coelho, C. (2023). Curriculum and identity options. In R. Tierney, F. Rizvi, K. Ercikan, & G. Smith (Eds.), International encyclopedia of education (4th ed., pp. 381-391). Elsevier.

Nagle, J., & Heydon, R. (2018-2020). Professionalism and professional development. In R. Heydon (Regional Ed.); W. Corsaro (Ed.-in-Chief). Set: Childhood (Volume: Canada). Bloomsbury education and childhood studies. Bloomsbury.  

Heydon, R., & Cooper, E. (2018-2020). Introduction to Canada. Set: Childhood (Volume: Canada). Bloomsbury education and childhood studies. Bloomsbury.  

Tran, A., & Heydon, R. (2018-2020). Digital technologies and online learning. In R. Heydon (Regional Ed.); W. J. Jacob (Ed.-in-Chief). Set: Higher education (Volume: Canada). Bloomsbury education and childhood studies. Bloomsbury.   

McKee, L., & Heydon, R. (2018-2020). Digital technologies and online learning. In R. Heydon (Regional Ed.); I. Menter, & M. T. Tatto (Eds.-in-Chief). Set: Primary Education (Volume: Canada). Bloomsbury education and childhood studies. Bloomsbury.   

Cooper, E., & Heydon, R. (2018-2020). Inclusion and marginalization of youth. Heydon, R. (Regional Ed.), K. Tilleczek (Ed.-in-Chief). Set: Youth (Volume: Canada). Bloomsbury education and childhood studies. Bloomsbury.    

Ibdah, S., & Heydon, R. (2018-2020). Initial teacher education. In R. Heydon (Regional Ed.); I. Menter, & M. T. Tatto (Eds.-in-Chief). Set: Primary Education (Volume: Canada). Bloomsbury education and childhood studies. Bloomsbury.   

Heydon, R., McKee, L., Akiwenzie, E., Cooper, E., Johns, B., McKenzie, P. J., McTavish, M., Poczobut, S., Ruthes Coelho, C., Viczko, M., & Zhang, Z. (2025). Reading and equity in teacher education: An exploratory study. Journal of Literacy Research, 57(4), 394-416. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X251401121

McKee, L., Heydon, R., Poczobut, S., McKenzie, P., & Zhang, Z. (2024). Teacher educator professional learning in context: Findings from the Reading Pedagogies of Equity Project. Learning in Context, (1)1, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lecon.2025.100001

Hai., R., Zhang, Z., & Heydon, R. (2024). Implemented English curricula in transnational education: Neocolonialism and pedagogical orientations in a Canadian offshore program in China. Language Teaching Research, 1-19. 

Heydon, R., Akiwenzie, E., Cooper, E., Ghannoum, H., Havord-Wier, D., Johns, B., MacAlpine, KA., McKee, L., Nagle, J., Neeganagwedgin, E., Pawlick-Potts, D., Poczobut, S., Ruthes Coelho, C., Stooke, A., Tran, A., & Zhang, Z. (2023). Guidelines for virtual early childhood and family learning: An equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization-informed systematic review of the literature. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 22(2), 180-194.

Zhang, Z., Heydon, R., Cooper, E. (2023). Household curricula during the COVID-19 pandemic: A collective biography. The Curriculum Journal, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1002/curj.206

Heydon, R., & Stooke, R. (2023). The literacies-as-events in the day of a life of an octogenarian: Literacies of thriving as habits of a lifetime and (im)materially constituted. Literacy, 57(3), 275-291. https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12342

Zhang, Z., Heydon, R., Chen, L., Floyd, L.A., Ghannoum, H., Ibdah, S., Massouti, A., Shen, J., & Swesi, H. (2023). Family literacies during the COVID-19 lockdowns: Semiotic assemblages and meaning making at home. Linguistics and Education, 74 1-11.

Zhang, Z., Heydon, R., Chen, L., Floyd, L.A., Ghannoum, H., Ibdah, S., Massouti, A., Shen, J., & Swesi, H. (2023). Household curricula during the COVID-19 pandemic: A collective biography. Curriculum Journal. 1-15. DOI: 10.1002/curj.206

Heydon, R., Stooke, R., Cameron, A. C., Cooper, E., & O’Neill, S. (2020). Making visible the literacy practices of elders through the  Day in the Life methodology: Considerations for literacy education across the lifespan. Literacy, 54(2), 60-68. 

McKee, L., & Heydon, R. (2020). “Enabled to play, enabled to explore”: Children’s civic engagement, literacies, and teacher professional learning. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 

Zhang, Z., Heydon, R., Li, W., & Malins, P. (2020). Literacies and identities in transnational education: A case study of literacy curricula in a Canadian transnational education program in China. Curriculum Journal, 31(1), 132-156.

Heydon, R. (2019). Reconceptualizing children, teaching, and learning through inter/intragenerational educational opportunities. Journal of Childhood Studies, 44(5), 66-70.  

Malins, P., Heydon, R., & Cooper, E. (2019) Gender and sexual identities in early childhood curricula: The case of Canada [Blog post]. UKFIET: United Kingdom Education and Development Forum. https://www.ukfiet.org/forum/

Moffatt, L., Heydon, R., & Iannacci, L. (2019). Helping out, signing up, and sitting down: The cultural production of read alouds in three kindergarten classrooms. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 19(2), 147-174.

Heydon, R., McKee, L., & O’Neill, S. (2018). Singing our song: An exploratory case study of singing as a multimodal literacy practice in an intergenerational program. Literacy 52(3), 128-136.  

Heydon, R., McKee, L., & Daly, B. (2017). iPads and paintbrushes: An exploratory case study of integrating digital media as placed resources in an intergenerational art class. Language and Education, 31(4), 351-373.  https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2016.1276585 

Heydon, R., Cooper, E., & Tran, A. (2017). Literacy lessons: Core concepts from multiliteracies for language teachers in contemporary times. Contact: TESL Ontario. http://contact.teslontario.org/literacy-lessons/  

Loerts, T., & Heydon, R. (2017). Multimodal literacy learning opportunities within a grade six classroom literacy curriculum: Constraints and enablers. Education 3-13, 45(4), 490-503.  

Heydon, R., McKee, L., & Phillips, L. (2016). The affordances and constraints of visual methods in early childhood education research: Talking points from the field. Journal of Childhood Studies, 41(3), 5-17.  

Zhang, Z., & Heydon, R. (2016). The changing landscape of literacy curriculum in a Sino-Canada transnational education programme: An actor-network theory informed case study. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 48(4), 547-564.