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Professor David Barton
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Research Activities
Previous Research Activities
Anthropology of writing: understanding textually-mediated worlds
Creating a resource for policy, practitioners and researchers
Literacies for Learning in FE - LFLFE
Literacy in the Digital University
Multimodal text-making and learning in online social spaces: The case of Flickr.com
Progression: life and learning
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
David Barton has 41 selected publication records listed on this webpage.
Previous Events
IAS Workshop - Changing literacies in the Knowledge-Based Economy, 04-05 May 2006
LRDG seminar: David Barton - Writing on Web2, 6 November 2007
BAAL Linguistic Ethnography Forum: 'ethnographies of literacy: an Anglo-French dialogue', 8 May 2008
TLRP-TEL digital literacies workshop, 12 March 2009
CeMoRe Workshop - Stranded: Lava, dust, people and aeroplanes, 27 May 2010
Fleeing from an ash cloud: Languages, literacies and technologies as resources in a coach hurtling across Europe. Literacy Research Discussion Group, 15 February 2011
Literacy Research Discussion Group: Catalan Research on Adolescent and Adult Literacy, 17 May 2011
Paper discussion session: From variation to heteroglossia in the study of computer-mediated discourse, 14 June 2011
LRDG: Negotiating discipline and politics: How students draw on diverse practices when 'doing a dissertation', 21 June 2011
LRDG: The Unseen Editor: The Role of the Public in Dictionary Making, 24 January 2012
Crossing borders: an exploration of transnational 'readability' and 'comparability' of university qualifications, 20 March 2012
LRDG - Writer's stance and the interaction of practices, 24 April 2012
Enriching early childhood literacy curricula and practice - a dialogue with Canada. One day conference., 7 May 2012
News
Book launch, 21 November 2007
New research briefing on Digital Literacies published, 1 February 2010
David Barton is back from Hong Kong, 31 July 2010
Ruby Chen's PhD!, 1 February 2011
Literacy Research Centre's response to the DfE's Year 1 Phonics Screening Check consultation, 2 February 2011
Linguistics colleagues present at Georgetown University Roundtable, 11 March 2011
Lynde Tan's PhD, 21 March 2011
Turkish translation published of Tusting and Barton 'Models of Adult Learning', 27 April 2011
Starting October 2012: New MA in Digital Language and Literacies, 1 December 2011
LRC special issue of Language and Education out!, 17 February 2012
Keywords
Adult learning, Adult literacy education in developing countries, Digital literacies, Informal learning, Literacies, Literacy, Literacy practices, Photography, Qualitative research methods, Social linguistics, Vernacular literacies, Word and image studies, Writing systems
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