Books
Dilemma-Based Learning in the Humanities (with Phil Wood and Deborah Michel; London: Chris Kington, 2007)

Gifted and Talented Learners – Creating a Policy for Inclusion (with Deborah Michel; London: NACE/David Fulton, 2002)

Gifted & Talented Pocketbook (Alresford: Teachers’ Pocketbooks, 2009)

Gifts, Talents & Education: A Living Theory Approach (with Jack Whitehead & Marie Huxtable; London: John Wiley, 2009)

The Routledge-Falmer International Companion to Gifted Education (co-edited with Tom Balchin and Dona Matthews; London: Routledge-Falmer, 2009)

Book Contributions
Making Meaning – foreword to the book by Brin Best, Anthony Blake & John Varney; London: Chris Kington, 2005

Understanding and overcoming underachievement in boys. Chapter 5 of Able Underachievers, edited by Prof Diane Montgomery; Whurr, 2000 (updated in the 2nd edition: Able, Gifted & Talented Underachievers, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)

Journal Papers
Developing ‘learning to learn’ skills through experiential challenges (with Paul Davies & Heather Lawson); Gifted Education International, vol. 20, 1, 2005

Dynamic Consultation: Towards process and challenge (with Deborah Michel and Liz Todd); Educational Psychology in Practice, vol. 18, 1, 2002

Early Transfer: A good move? (with Nigel Harbron); Educating Able Children, Spring 1998

“If you think of the world as a piece of custard …”: gifted children’s use of metaphor as a tool for conceptual reasoning; Gifted Education International, vol. 17, 2, 2003

Inclusion Issues: Meeting the needs of gifted and talented learners in mainstream schools; Curriculum Briefing, vol. 1, 2, 2003

Philosophy for Children – special double issue of the journal Gifted Education International, vol. 22, 2/3, 2007, guest-edited by Barry Hymer

Articles
BarroWise: Nurturing the gift of wisdom; NACE Newsletter, Summer 2001

Beyond clever: an evolving new paradigm of giftedness; G&T Update, Issue 68, October 2009

‘The fruits of age’: cross-generational learning through all-age philosophical enquiry (with Paul Jenkins); G&T Update, Issue 21, February 2005

Gifted and Talented? Time for a Rethink?; G&T Update, Issue 30, December 2005/January 2006, republished in Teaching Thinking & Creativity, issue 20, Summer 2006

The Philosopher’s Moan – Is it not time we taught children to think properly? In an open letter to the schools minister, Barry Hymer puts the case for philosophy; Times Educational Supplement, 3 September 2004, p23

Test That Insults the Nation – Open minds to see that everyone is gifted and a richer world unfolds; Times Educational Supplement, 24 May 2002, p 23

Teaching Tom Sawyer English; Report, November 1987

Videos & Theses
Philosophy for Children – an introduction (video), with Elizabeth Dawson. Stillthinking, 2002

Philosophy for Children / P4C: a mixed-age approach (10-minute video produced by Barrow & District Age Concern and available for £5 from SAPERE: www.sapere.org.uk), 2004

Thinking Skills: Child Philosophers. Contribution to the Teachers’ TV programme by Glasshead Television, 2004

How do I understand and communicate my values and beliefs in my work as an educator in the field of giftedness? Doctoral thesis, Newcastle University, 2007