Josephine Florence Fletcher is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor in the School of Teacher Education at the University of Canterbury, specialising in literacy and learning environments.
Fletcher completed a PhD titled The wider systemic conditions that support reading for 11 to 13 year-old students at the University of Canterbury.
[1] Fletcher then joined the faculty of the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor in 2024.
[4][5] She is also part of a Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga-funded project with Angus MacFarlane, looking at 'practices of sustenance' for Māori learners.
[6] With Niki Davis, she led a Ministry of Education project on e-learning for adult literacy and numeracy, which led to further work on how e-learning could support English literacy for people learning it as a second language.