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Books
  • Hymer, B & Sutcliffe, R; P4C Pocketbook (2012); Alresford: Teachers’ Pocketbooks
  • Michel, D & Hymer, B (2011); Dilemma-Based Learning in Primary School; London: Optimus/Chris Kington
  • Balchin, T, Hymer, B & Matthews, D (eds.), (2009); The Routledge International Companion to Gifted Education; London: Routledge-Falmer
  • Hymer, B, Whitehead, J & Huxtable, M (2009); Gifts, Talents & Education - A Living Theory Approach; London: John Wiley
  • Hymer, B (2009); Gifted & Talented Pocketbook; Alresford: Teachers’ Pocketbooks
  • Wood, P, Hymer, B & Michel, D (2007); Dilemma-Based Learning in the Humanities – Integrating social, emotional and thinking skills; London: Chris Kington
  • Hymer, B (2002); Gifted & Talented Learners – Creating a policy for inclusion; London: David Fulton
Selected book chapters, journal papers and articles
  • From cohorts to capabilities: connecting the ‘G&T’ agenda in schools to an influential theory of economic development; G&T Update, Issue 89, December 2011
  • An act of GRACE? What do contemporary understandings in psychology have to contribute to the future of gifted education? Paper presentation for national seminar hosted by Oxford-Brookes University: “Reconceptualising Gifted & Talented: Re-imagine, Retrench, or Reject?”, June 2011
  • Beyond clever: an evolving new paradigm of giftedness; G&T Update, Issue 68, October 2009
  • Beyond compare? Thoughts towards an inclusional, fluid and non-normative understanding of giftedness; The Routledge International Companion to Gifted Education (Balchin, Hymer & Matthews, eds.), Chapter 37, 2009
  • Understanding and overcoming underachievement in boys. Chapter 5 of Able Underachievers, edited by Diane Montgomery; Whurr (updated in the 2nd edition: Able, Gifted & Talented Underachievers, Wiley-Blackwell), 2009
  • Philosophy for Children – special double issue of the journal Gifted Education International, vol. 22, 2/3, 2007, guest-edited by Barry Hymer
  • 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
  • Making Meaning – foreword to the book on Logo-Visual Thinking by Brin Best, Anthony Blake & John Varney; London: Chris Kington, 2005
  • Developing ‘learning to learn’ skills through experiential challenges (with Paul Davies & Heather Lawson); Gifted Education International, vol. 20, 1, 2005
  • ‘The fruits of age’: cross-generational learning through all-age philosophical enquiry (with Paul Jenkins); G&T Update, Issue 21, February 2005
  • 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
  • “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
  • Dynamic Consultation: Towards process and challenge (with Deborah Michel and Liz Todd); Educational Psychology in Practice, vol. 18, 1, 2002
  • Test That Insults the Nation – Open minds to see that everyone is gifted and a richer world unfolds; Times Educational Supplement, 24 May 2002, p23
  • BarroWise: Nurturing the gift of wisdom; NACE Newsletter, Summer 2001
  • Early Transfer: A good move? (with Nigel Harbron); Educating Able Children, Spring 1998
  • Teaching Tom Sawyer English; Report, November 1987
Videos, DVDs
  • Challenge for All: Highlights from the Carol Dweck conferences 2010. DVD available from www.carol-dweck.co.uk
  • Thinking Skills: Child Philosophers. Contribution to the Teachers’ TV programme by Glasshead Television, 2004
  • Philosophy for Children / P4C: a mixed-age approach (10-minute video produced by Barrow & District Age Concern), 2004
  • Philosophy for Children – an introduction (video), with Elizabeth Dawson. Stillthinking, 2002