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LRDG meetings held in 2001

18 January - Jane Chisholm-Caunt

Workplace Basic Skills Training Network

Network's response to the Government draft policy document 'Skills for Life' and discussion of other responses.

25 January - David Barton

‘People are Spiky’ - will talk about his paper and other papers given at the conference on family literacy held in Sheffield on January 20th

1 February - Roz Ivanic

Talk about a current project on practitioner research which she is working on for the Scottish Adult Literacy Initiative.

8 March - David Barton and Awena Carter

Report on the Ethnography and education conference held in Philadephia the previous week.

15 March - Peter Knight

Continuation of discussions on communities of practice with some suggestions on how to develop the concept.

17 May - David Barton

Linguistic ethnography - how literacy studies fits into linguistics

24 May - Susan Dray

'Does writing make you good?’ reflections on the portrayal of literacy in Jamaica.

31 May - Roz Ivanic

Conflicting views on university writing

21 June - Guilherme Rios

Contrasting communities in Brasilia

14 June - Judith Green, UC Santa Barbara

Methodological issues in literacy research

11 October - Ian Falk

University of Tasmania, Learning communities and literacy

25 October - Louis Sterling

Literacy consultant and manager of the Jamaica Literacy Survey

Researching Adult Literacy in Jamaica, 1999

1 November - Guilherme Rios

Dominant conceptions of literacy in a Brazilian locality

8 November - Awena Carter

Competing Discourses: record keeping and a dyslexic child

22 November - Jane Sunderland and David Barton

discussion on interview data from their project on Coming across to a new academic discourse community

29 November - Lynne Alexander

novelist and Royal Literary Society Fellow at St Martins College, Creative writing versus academic writing

6 December - Susan Dray

Why people write