MA Adult Literacy, Numeracy & ESOL
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Anita Wilson
Anita Wilson is currently a Research Associate with the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre. Over the past 14 years, she has undertaken ethnographic research alongside prisoners and staff in a wide range of carceral settings and has a sustained interest in how aspects of literacy - the activity and the practice, the material and the visual, the educational and the social - impact on everyday prison life. She contributed to the government Green Paper on offenders and employment and published a report commissioned by the NRDC on the literacy needs of disaffected young people in custody and in the community.
David Barton
David
Barton is Professor of Language and Literacy and Director of
the Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster University. He has written and
edited several books including Models of Adult Learning, NIACE 2006 (co-author);
Beyond Communities of Practice: Language, Power and Social Context. Cambridge
University Press, 2005 (co-editor); Situated Literacies, Routledge, 2000
(co-editor); Local Literacies: Reading And Writing In One Community, Routledge,
1998 (co-author); Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written
Language, Blackwell, 2006. He was a co-founder of the Research and Practice
in Adult Literacy (RaPAL) group.
Sondra Cuban
Sondra Cuban is a Lecturer on the Adult Literacy, Numeracy,
and ESOL, and a researcher with the Literacy Research Centre and The Network
(formally known as the Workplace Basic Skills Network). Her main interests
in adult literacy are in workplace learning, persistence and participation,
health literacy, women and literacy, computer-mediated learning, and community-based
education with new immigrant communities. I am a former adult basic education
and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) tutor, and have volunteered
as well as conducted research in many types of different programmes and
with groups including inmates, homeless women, learners with very low
literacy levels, family literacy, employees and volunteers.
Mary Hamilton
Mary
Hamilton is Professor of Adult Learning and Literacy in the Department
of Educational Research, Lancaster University. She is involved with literacy,
numeracy and basic skills issues across all levels of the education system.
Her main areas of interest are in adult and continuing education; policy
issues and public representations of literacy; comparative perspectives,
especially across industrialised societies; processes of informal adult
learning; and issues of access and transition for mature students. She
is interested in different research methodologies in literacy and adult
basic education, particularly qualitative and participatory models of
research and the analysis of visual data, with a special interest in computer-assisted
qualitative analysis.
Roz Ivanič
Roz
Ivanič is Professor of Linguistics in Education at the Department
of Linguistics and English Language. Her main interests within the Literacy
Research Centre are literacies across the curriculum in Further Education;
academic literacy practices; the learning and teaching of writing; the
discoursal construction of identity in writing; the multimodality of literacy
practices; pedagogy in adult literacy provision, and how it relates to
learners' lives and purposes for learning; and integrating research with
practice.
Kathy Pitt
Kathy Pitt is a research fellow of the Literacy Research Centre and tutor of two modules on the distance MA in ALNE. She also freelances as a researcher and teacher. Her PhD thesis used critical discourse analysis to explore the pedagogic discourse of family literacy.
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