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Selected publications from members of the Literacy Research Centre

In press

Burgess, A., & Tusting, K. (in press). Changing lifeworlds, changing writing: How adults take on new writing practices at times of change. RaPAL Journal.

Gillen, J. and Hall, N. (in print) 'The emergence of early childhood literacy' in Hall, N., Larson, J and Marsh, J. (eds)The Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy 2nd edn. Thousand Oaks, CA/London: Sage Publications.

Gillen, J. (in print) Archaeology in a virtual world: Schome Park. In R. Jones (ed.) Discourse and Creativity. Harlow: Pearson.

Gillen, J., Ferguson, R., Peachey, A. & Twining, P. (2012) Distributed cognition in a virtual world. Language and Education. 26 (2) 151-167

Hamilton, M. and Pitt, K.(forthcoming) Changing policy Discourses: Constructing Literacy Inequalities. International Journal of Education in Development.

Hamilton, M. (forthcoming) Unruly Practices: What a Sociology of Translations can offer to Educational Policy Analysis. Invited paper to appear in Fenwick, T. and Edwards, R. (eds) Special Issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory on Actor Network Theory.

Jaffe, A., Androutsopoulos, J., Sebba, M. & Johnson, S. (in print)(eds) Orthography as social action: scripts, spelling, identity and power. De Gruyter.

Merchant, G., Gillen, J., Marsh, J. & Davies, J. (in print)(eds) Virtual literacies: interactive spaces for children and young people. Routledge.

Papen, U. (in press) 'Informal, incidental and ad hoc: the information seeking and learning strategies of health care patients’. Language and Education.

Papen, U. (in press) 'Commercial discourses, gentrification and citizens' protest: the linguistic landscape of Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. Journal of Sociolinguistics

Tusting, K. (forthcoming). Learning accountability literacies in educational workplaces: Situated learning and processes of commodification. Language and Education.

Tusting, K. (in press). Who has the power to act in the world? : social responsibility, agency and voice in a Catholic newspaper.. In Östman, J., & Solin, A. (Eds.), Discourse and Responsibility in Professional Settings (Studies in Communication in Organizations and Professions). London: Equinox.

2011

Barton, D. (2011) People and technologies as resources in times of uncertainty. Mobilities, 6 (1) 57-65.

Gillen, J. & Passey, D. (2011) Digital literacies in the making: schools producing news with the BBC. Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy 1-2. (free access upon registration)

Lee, C. & Barton, D. (2011) Constructing Glocal Identities through Multilingual Writing Practices on Flickr.com. International Multilingualism Research Journal 5 (1) 39-59.

Maybin, J. and Tusting, K. (2011) 'Linguistic Ethnography', in the Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics, edited by James Simpson, London and New York: Routledge.

Sangiorgi, D., Gillen, J., Junginger, S. & Whitham, R. (2011) Case Study 13: A service design inquiry into learning and personalisation. In A. Meroni & D. Sangiorgi (eds) Design for Services. Gower.

2010

Barton, D. & M. Hamilton (2010) La littératie: une pratique sociale. Langage et société, 133, 45-62.

Barton, D. & Papen, U. (eds.) The anthropology of writing. London: Continuum, May 2010.

Burgess A and Ivanic R (2010) 'Writing and Being written: Issues of identity across timescales' Written Communication 27 (2) 228-255

Burgess A (2010) 'The Use of Space-time to Construct Identity and Context' Ethnography and Education 5 (1)

Burgess A (2010) 'Doing Time: an Exploration of Timescapes in Literacy Learning and Research'    Language and Education 24 (5) 353-365

Gillen, J. & Cameron, C.A. (eds) (2010) International perspectives on early childhood research : A Day in the Life . Palgrave Macmillan.

Gillen, J., Cameron, C.A., Pinto, G., Accorti Gamannossi, B., Young, S. & Hancock, R. (2010) 'A Day in the Life': an international study of two-year-old girls and their families. Paper presented at the American Research Association Annual Meeting: Understanding complex ecologies in a changing world. Denver. April 30 - May 5.

Gillen, J., Ferguson, R., Peachey, A. & Twining, P. (2010) Sailing in Schome Park: humour and learning in a virtual world project with teenagers. Paper presented at the American Research Association Annual Meeting: Understanding complex ecologies in a changing world. Denver. April 30 - May 5. (Poster presentation).

Gillen, J and Barton, D. (2010) Digital Literacies, a Research Briefing. TLRP / Technology Enhanced Learning. Available to download from Technology Enhanced Learning.

Gillen, J. & Hall, N. (2010) Any mermaids? Tracing early postcard mobilities. In J. Urry, M. Büscher & K. Witchger (eds) Mobile Methods. pp. 20-35. London: Routledge.

Hamilton, M. (2010) Introducing Adult Literacy in its Social and Historical Context. Invited chapter to the Teacher Handbook for Adult Literacy, edited byNora Hughes and Irene Schwab.Open University Press.

Hamilton, M. (2010) Managing Transitions in Skills for Life. in Ecclestone, K., Biesta, G and Hughes, M. Transitions and Learning Through the Lifecourse. Routledge, pp 69-86.

Littleton, K., Twiner, A. & Gillen, J. (2010) Instruction as orchestration: multimodal connection building with theInteractive Whiteboard. Pedagogies: an international journal .vol 5 (2) 130-141.

Mercer, N., Gillen, J., Kleine Staarman, J., Littleton, K. & Twiner, A. (2010) Interactive Whiteboards: does new technology transform teaching? in A. Lund, S. Ludvigsen, R. Saljo & I. Rasmussen (eds) Learning across sites: new tools, infrastructures and practices. Oslo: Intermedia.

Papen, U. 2010 Literacy mediators, scribes or brokers: the central role of others in accomplishing reading and writing, Langage et Societe, No 133, September

Peachey, A., Gillen, J., Livingstone, D. & Robbins, S. (eds) (2010) Researching Learning in Virtual Worlds. Springer.

Pitt, K. (2010) 'Folding Souls or the Real Self? The theories of self of Roy Bhaskar and Nicholas Rose through the case of five visual artists', Journal of Critical Realism, 2010, 9:2, pp.172-198.

Sangiorgi, D., Junginger, S., Whitham, R. & Gillen, J. (2010) Participatory design and personal development: a tale from the UK secondary school field. Paper presented at the American Research Association Annual Meeting: Understanding complex ecologies in a changing world. Denver. April 30 - May 5.

Sangiorgi, D., Gillen, J., Junginger, S. & Whitham, R. (2010) Personal development, participation and design.   In ed. A. Yagou: special issue: Innovative Service Design for All - part two.  Re-public - re-imagining democracy:  an online journal .  ISSN 1791-857X.  Available at http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=2200  and in Greek at http://www.re-public.gr/?p=1988  from 4 March 2010.

Satchwell, C. and Smith, J. (2010) '"A shared endeavour?" The experiences of Further Education practitioners and Higher Education researchers on a collaborative research project' in Studies in the Education of Adults, Vol.42.

Tusting, K. (2010). Eruptions of interruptions : managing tensions between writing and other tasks in a textualised childcare workplace.. In Barton, D., & Papen, U. (Eds.), The Anthropology of Writing: Understanding Textually Mediated Worlds (pp. 67-89). London: Continuum.

Wilson, A. (2010) Reading the Signs: Prison Officers' mindful diagnosis of potential self-harm and suicide in M. Büscher, D. Goodwin, J. Mesman (eds) Ethnographies of Diagnostic Work: Dimensions of Transformative Practice. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Wilson, A. (2010) Interrupted Life: The impact of the criminal justice system on the progress of young offenders (Prison Service Journal May)

2009

Barton, D. (2009) Understanding textual practices in a changing world. In M. Baynham & M. Prinsloo (eds.) The Future of Literacy Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Barton, D. (2009) Literacy practices. In Culpeper, J., Katamba, F. Kerswill, P., Wodak, R. and T. McEnery (eds) English Language: Description, Variation and Context. Palgrave.

Brzeski, A. (2009) Portfolio building: the relationship with literacies in students' everyday lives. Literacy and Numeracy Studies

Cuban, S. (2009)“Talking was a great experience:” destabilising gendered communication in the workplace. International Review of Education 55 (5-6) pp 579-596

Burgess, A., Hamilton , M. and Ivanic, R. (2009) 'Functional literacy: A new idea or déjà vu?' RaPAL Journal No 67, pp 25 - 29.

Gillen, J., Twining, P., Ferguson, R., Butters, O., Clough, G., Gaved, M., Peachey, A., Seamans, D. & Sheehy, K. (2009) A learning community for teens on a  virtual island - The Schome Park Teen Second Life Pilot project. eLearning Papers no. 15 The New Learning Generation.  online at: http://www.elearningpapers.eu/index.php?page=doc&doc_id=14397&doclng=6

Also available in Spanish as   El proyecto piloto Schome Park: una comunidad de aprendizaje para adolescentes en una isla virtual de Second Life online at: http://www.elearningeuropa.info/files/media/media20162.pdf

Gillen, J. (2009) Literacy practices in Schome Park: a virtual literacy ethnography. Journal of Research in Reading 32 (1) 57-74.

Gillen, J. & Barton, D. (2009) Digital literacies A discussion document for TLRP-TEL (Teaching and Learning Research Programme – Technology Enhanced Learning) workshop on digital literacies.

Hamilton, M. (2009) "Putting words in their mouths: the alignment of identities with system goals through the use of individual learning plans" in British Educational Research Journal Vol 35:2, 221-242

Hamilton, M. (2009) Relinquishing the Practices of a Lifetime: Observations on ageing, caring and literacies in Journal of Literacy and Numeracy Studies Vol 7:1 pp 63-74. University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Hamilton, M. and Appleby, Y. (2009) (eds) "Critical Perspectives on Practitioner Research" Special Issue of Journal Studies in the Education of Adults Vol 42:2.

Hamilton, M. and Hillier, Y. (2009) ESOL Policy and Change in Language Issues, Vol 20:1. NATECLA ISBN 0263 5833 pp 4-18

Hamilton, M. and Pitt, K. (2009) Creativity in academic writing: escaping from the straitjacket of genre? in Why Writing Matters: Issues of access and identity in writing research and pedagogy Edited by A. Carter, T. Lillis and S. Parkin, John Benjamin's Publishing Company Ch 4: pp 61-80. ISBN 978 90 272 1870 0

Ivanic, R. (2009) ' Bringing literacy studies into research on learning across the curriculum.' In M. Baynham and M. Prinsloo (eds) The future of literacy studies. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan.

Ivanic , R. (2009) 'Languages and literacies in education.' In J. Culpeper, F. Katamba, P. Kerswill, R. Wodak and T. McEnery (eds) The English Language. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan.

Ivanic, R., Edwards, R., Barton, D., Fowler, Z., Mannion, G., Miller, K., Satchwell, C. and Smith, J. (2009) Improving Learning in College: Rethinking literacies across the curriculum, Routledge

Ivanic, R. (2009) 'An OPQ of a life in RaPAL - a retrospective.' RaPAL Journal No 67, pp 45 - 49.

Lee, C. & Barton, D. (2009) English and glocal identities on Web2.0: The case of Flickr.com. In K. K. Tam (Ed.). Englishization in Asia. Hong Kong: Open University of Hong Kong Press.

Papen, Uta (2009) Literacy, learning and health - a social practices view of health literacy. Literacy and Numeracy Studies, Vol 16 & Vol 17 (No 2 & No 1). pp. 19-35. ISSN 1441-0559

Papen, Uta (2009) New technologies : literacies in cyberspace. In: Culpeper, Jonathan and Katamba, Francis and Kerswill, Paul and Wodak, Ruth and McEnery, Tony, (eds.) English Language : Description, Variation and Context. Palgrave, Houndmills.

Passey, D. & Gillen, J. (2009) BBC News School Report 2008/2009 Independent Evaluation .

Sangiorgi, D., Junginger, S., Whitham, R. & Gillen, J. (2009) Development, Participation, Design. Project Report. ImaginationLancaster.

Satchwell, C. and Ivanic, R. (2009) 'The textual mediation of learning in Further Education.' In R. Edwards, G. Biesta and M. Thorpe (Eds.) Rethinking contexts for learning and teaching: Communities, activities and networks. London : RoutledgeFalmer.

Satchwell, C. and Ivanic, R. (2009) 'Reading and writing the self as a college student: Fluidity and ambivalence across contexts', chapter for K. Ecclestone, G. Biesta and M. Hughes (eds.) Lost in transition? Change and becoming through the lifecourse, London: Routledge Falmer.

Tusting, K. (2009). 'I am not a "good" teacher, I don't do all their paperwork' : teacher resistance to accountability demands in the English Skills for Life strategy.. Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 17(3), 6-26.

Twiner, A., Cook, G. & Gillen, J. (2009) Overlooked issues of religious identity in the school dinners debate. Cambridge Journal of Education 39 (4) 473-488.

Wilson, A. (2009) Interrupted Education - Interrupted Life: The criminal justice system as a disruptive force on the lives of young people Report for ESRC-funded project http://www.interrupted-education.com/report.pdf

Wilson, A. (2009) Literacy and Writing: Ideology in Practice in Reviews in Anthropology (ed Roger I Lohman) Volume 38. No, 4 October - December 2009

Wilson, A., Hurry, J. & Brazier, L. (2009) Improving the Literacy and Numeracy of Young Offenders in Tracking Adult Literacy and Numeracy: Longitudinal Studies of Adult Education eds. S. Reder & J. Bynner, Routledge

2008

Appleby, Y. and Barton, D. (2008) ‘Adults lives and learning in different contexts: A view over time.’ In S. Reder and J. Bynner (eds.) Tracking adult literacy and numeracy skills: findings from longitudinal research, pp 349-364. Routledge.

Appleby, Y. & Barton, D. (2008) Responding to people's lives, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). Now published by NIACE

Burgess, A. (2008) 'The Literacy Practices of Recording Achievement: how a text mediates between the local and the global' Journal of Education Policy 23 (1) 49-62

Cuban, S. (2008) Home/Work: The Study of Migrant Carers in Cumbria. Ethnography and Education, Summer, 2008.

Cuban, S. (2008) Women’s use of health texts in Hawaii. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 27 (3).

Cuban, S. & Anderson, J. (2008) “Where’s the Justice in Service-Learning: The Institutionalization of Service-Learning from a Jesuit Perspective.” In D. Butin, Service-learning and Social Justice Education, London: Routledge.

Barton, D., Tusting, K., Hodge, R. & Appleby, Y. (2008) Learners’ experience of work. London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills).

Fowler, Z. (2008) Negotiating the textuality of Further Education: issues of agency and participation Oxford Review of Education 34.4 pp 425 - 441

Gillen, J., Littleton, K, Twiner, A., Kleine Staarman, J & Mercer, N. (2008) 'Using the interactive whiteboard to resource continuity and support multimodal teaching in a primary science classroom.' Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 24, 348-358.

Papen, U. (2008) Literacy and health: the contributions of four different fields of research to our understanding of health literacy , London: NRDC.

Papen, Uta (2008) Pregnancy starts with a literacy event: pregnancy and ante-natal care as texctually mediated social experiences. Ethnography, 9 (3). pp. 377-403.

Papen, Uta and Tusting, Karin (2008) Creativity in everyday literacy practices : the contribution of an ethnographic approach. Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 16 (1), pp. 5-25

Papen, U. and Walters, S. (2008) Literacy, learning and health , London: NRDC.

Peachey, A., Gillen, J. & Ferguson, R. (2008) Fluid leadership in a multi-user virtual environment educational project with teenagers: Schome Park. Paper presented at Ecologies of Diversities: the developmental and historical interarticulation of human meditational forms: meeting of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research, San Diego,USA. September 8-13.

Pitt, K. (2008) Sourcing the Self: debating the relations between language and consciousness. Berne, Switzerland: Peter Lang

Pollmuller, B., Clough, G. & Gillen, J. (2008) Animation in Education: its impact on learning, literacy and creativity - understanding teenagers' creativity through making machinima in a 3D virtual world known as Schome Park. Networks 11, July. 3-4.

Smith, J., Satchwell, C., Edwards, R., Miller, K., Fowler, Z, Gaechter, J., Knowles, J., Phillipson, C. and Young, R. (2008) 'Literacy practices in the learning careers of childcare students'. Journal of Vocational Education and Training Vol. 60, No. 4, pp 363-375

Tusting, Karin (2008) Ecologies of New Literacies: implications for education. In: Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 3194-3206. ISBN 9780387304243

2007

Barton, D. (2007) Literacy: an introduction to the ecology of written language, Blackwell, 2nd edition.

Barton, D., Ivanič, R., Appleby, Y., Hodge, R. and Tusting, K. (2007) Literacy, Lives and Learning, London & New York: Routledge.

Comings, J. and Cuban, S. (2007). “Persistence in Adult Basic Education.” Chapter in A. Belzer Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education, New Jersey: Lawrence Ehrlbaum.

Cuban, S. (2007). Libraries Serving New Immigrant Communities. Libraries Unlimited.

Cuban, S. & Cuban, L. (2007). Partners in Literacy: Schools and Libraries Using Technology to Build Communities. Teachers College Press.

Cuban, S. (2007). “For Some Reason I’m Just Tired: The Persistence of Domestic Workers in Community-Based Programmes.” Journal for Continuing and Adult Education, 13.

Cuban, S. & Anderson, J. (2007). Where’s the Justice in Service-Learning. Equity & Excellence in Education, 40.

Gillen, J. (2007) Derwent's Doors: Creative Acts. Mind, Culture and Activity 14 (3) 150-159.

Gillen, J., Kleine Staarman, J., Littleton, K., Mercer, N. & Twiner, A. (2007) 'A "learning revolution"? Investigating pedagogic practice around interactive whiteboards in British primary classrooms' Learning, Media and Technology 32 (3) pp. 243-256. DOI 10.1080/17439880701511099

Gillen, J., Cameron, C.A., Tapanya, S., Pinto, G., Hancock, R., Young, S. & Accorti Gamannossi, B. (2007) 'A Day in the Life': advancing a methodology for the cultural study of development and learning in early childhood. Early Child Development and Care. vol. 177 no. 2 pp. 207-218.

Hall, N. & Gillen, J. (2007) Purchasing Pre-packed words: Complaint and Reproach in Early British Postcards in M. Lyons (ed.) Ordinary writing, personal narratives: writing practices in the 19th and early 20th century. Berne, Switzerland: Peter Lang. pp. 101-117.

Hamilton, M. and Hillier, Y. (2007) Deliberative policy Analysis: Adult literacy Assessment and the Politics of Change. Journal of Educational Policy, 22:5 pp 573-594. ISSN: 0268-0939

Hamilton, M. (2007) Reflections on Agency and Change in the Policy Process. Journal of Vocational Education & Training Vol 59:2 June, pp 249-260.

Hamilton, M. Davies, P. and James, K. (eds) (2007) Practitioners Leading Research. London: NRDC.

Hancock, R. & Gillen, J. (in press, 2007) 'Safe places in domestic spaces: two-year-olds at play in their homes' Children's Geographies (vol. 5 no. 4). pp. 337-351.

Ivanic, R. and Satchwell, C . (2007) 'Boundary crossing: networking and transforming the literacies in research processes and college courses.' Internationall Journal of Applied Linguistics 4.1. Special Issue on New Directions in Academic Literacies Research (pp. 101-124).

Ivanic, R., Edwards, R., Satchwell, C., and Smith, J. (2007) 'Possibilities for pedagogy in Further Education: Harnessing the abundance of literacy.' British Educational Research Journal Vol. 33, No. 5, TLRP Special Issue, pp. 703-721

Mannion, G. and Ivanic, R. (2007) 'Mapping Literacy Practices: Theory, Methodology, Methods.' International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Vol 20, no. 1  pp. 15-30.

Papen, U. (2007) Literacy and globalization - reading and writing in times of social and cultural change. London: Routledge.

Pardoe, S. and Ivanic, R. (2007) Literacies for Learning in Further Education: making reading and writing practices across the curriculum more useful for learning . DVD film and booklet. Lancaster University & PublicSpace Ltd. www.publicspace.org.uk/lflfe.html

Rampton, B., J. Maybin & K. Tusting (eds) (2007) Linguistic Ethnography: Links, Problems and Possibilities. Special issue of Journal of Sociolinguistics 11(5)

Satchwell, C. and Ivanič, R. (2007) 'The textuality of learning contexts in UK colleges', in Pedagogy, Culture & Society, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 303-316. London: Routledge

Satchwell, C. (2007) 'Creating third spaces: Helping Further Education students with course-related reading and writing'. The Teacher Trainer Vol 21, no 2. pp. 11 - 14.

Satchwell, C. (2007) 'Keeping it real ..', The Leader, ASCL, Issue 21, May, pp. 28 - 30.

Tusting, K. and Barton, D. (2007) Programmes for unemployed people since the 1970s: the changing place of language, literacy and numeracy, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy.

Tusting, K. and Maybin, J. (2007) "Linguistic ethnography and interdisciplinarity: opening the discussion', Journal of Sociolinguistics 11(5).

Tusting, K. (2007) 'Ecologies of New Literacies: implications for education', in Creese, A. and Martin, P. (eds) Language Ecologies, vol.7 of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Dordrecht: Springer.

Wilson, A. (2007) 'I go to get away from the cockroaches':Educentricity and the politics of education in prisons (2) Journal of Correctional Education Vol 58 No.2 June 2007

Wilson, A. (2007) 'From sit down and read that' to 'What we readin' next week Miss?'; Encouraging reluctant young readers to read for pleasure in a prison setting (Paul Hamlyn Trust/Trust for the Study of Adolescence)

Young, S. & Gillen, J. (2007) 'Toward a revised understanding of young children's musical activities: reflections from the "Day in the Life" project.' Current Musicology 84 (Fall 2007) pp. 7-27.

2006

Barton, D., Appleby, Y., Hodge, R., Tusting, K. and Ivanič, R. (2006) Relating adults' lives and learning: participation and engagement in different settings, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).

Barton, D., Ivanič, R., Appleby, Y., Hodge, R. and Tusting, K. 2006, Relating lives and learning: Adults' engagement in community settings, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy(NRDC).

Barton, D., Ivanič, R., Appleby, Y., Hodge, R. and Tusting, K. 2006, Relating language, literacy and numeracy teaching to adult learners' lives:A social perspective, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).

Cameron, C.A., Tapanya, S. & Gillen, J. (2006) Swings, Hammocks, and Rocking Chairs as Secure Bases during A Day in the Life in Diverse Cultures. Child and Youth Care Forum 35 (3) 231-247.

Casey, H., Cara, Ol, Eldred, J., Grief, S., Hodge, R., Ivanič, R., Jupp, T., Lopez, D. and McNeil, B. (2006) Embedding literacy, language and numeracy in post-16 vocational programmes - the impact on learning and achievement, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).

Cuban, S. (2006). Functional Health Literacy, Compliance, and the Knowledge Based Economy. Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies, October, 2006.

Flewitt, R.S. and Gillen, J. (2006) UK Literacy Association Response to Draft Early Years Foundation Stage.

Gillen, J., & Hancock, R. (2006) 'A day in the life': exploring eating events involving two-year-old girls and their families in diverse communities. Australian Journal of Early Childhood vol. 31 no. 4 pp. 23-29.

Gillen, J., Cameron, C.A., Tapanya, S., Pinto, G., Hancock, R., Young, S.,Accorti Gamannossi, B., Didkowsky, N. (2006) Una metodologia per lo studio culturale dello sviluppo e dell'apprendimento nella prima infanzia. A Day In The Life: advancing a methodology for the cultural study ofdevelopment and learning in early childhood. in Pinto, G. (ed.) special issue "A Day In The Life": ecological investigation of learning in diverse communitiesnumero speciale "A Day In The Life": un'indagine ecologica sul costruirsidegli apprendimenti in comunità diverse. Rassegna di Psicologia. 3 (XXIII), 11-24

Gillen, J. & Hancock, R. (2006) I pasti, gli artefatti e la trasmissione dei valori. Eating, artefacts and the communication of valuesin Pinto, G. (ed.) special issue "A Day In The Life": ecological investigation of learning in diverse communities. numero speciale "A Day In The Life": un'indagine ecologica sul costruirsidegli apprendimenti in comunità diverseRassegna di Psicologia. 3 (XXIII), 21-59.

Gillen, J. (2006) 'Child's play', in J.Maybin and J. Swann (eds) The Art of English: everyday creativity. Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hamilton, M. (2006) 'Practitioner Research: Just a Fling or a Long-term Relationship?' REFLECT Issue 6, pp 14-18. NRDC: London.

Hamilton, M. and Hillier, Y. (2006) The Changing Face of Adult Literacy, Language and Numeracy 1970-2000 A Critical History. Trentham Books

Hodge, R. (2006) Effective Practices in Family Literacy, Language and Numeracy Project: Inspiration and Aspiration: exploring the nature of success of FLLN provision in a multilingual context, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, Working Paper No 12.

Ivanič, R. Appleby, Y., Hodge, R., Tusting, K. and Barton, D. (2006) Linking learning and everyday life: a social perspective on adult language, literacy and numeracy classes, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).

Papen, U. (2006) 'Local literacy practices in Namibia: Creativity and constraint', in: J.Maybin (ed.) The Art of English: Everyday Creativity, Basingstoke: Pagrave Macmillan.

Papen, U. and K. Tusting (2006) 'Literacies, collaboration and context' in J. Maybin and J.Swann (eds) The Art of English: Everyday Creativity. Basingstoke: Pagrave Macmillan.

Satchwell, C. (2006) 'Literacy around the clock: an examination of the clock activity', Proceedings of 3rd International Conference - What a Difference a Pedagogy Makes: Researching Lifelong Learning & Teaching Conference (2005), Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning.

Satchwell, C. and Miller, K. (2006) 'The effect of beliefs about literacy on teacher and student expectations: a Further Education perspective', Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 58, 2.

Tett, L., Hamilton, M. and Hillier, Y. (eds) (2006) Adult Literacy, Language and Numeracy: Practice, Policy, Research. Open University Press/McGraw Hill.

Tseng, M.L. and Ivanič, R. (2006) ‘Recognizing complexity in adult literacy research and practice’, in S. Gieve and I. Miller (eds) Understanding the Language Classroom, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Tusting, K. and Barton, D. (2006) Models of Adult Learning, Leicester: NIACE.

Wilson, A. (2006) ‘Engaging People in Change: Creative arts interventions with marginalised groups’ pub. Doncaster Community Arts ISBN 978-0-9552713-0.4

Wilson, A. (2006) ‘Talking about Trailblazers: Young men’s comments and evaluation of the Trailblazers Mentoring Project at HMP Aylesbury’ Trust for the Study of Adolescence www.prisonethnographer.com

Young, S. & Gillen, J. (2006) La musicalità comunicativa come pratica educative. Communicative musicality as parenting practice. in Pinto, G. (ed.) special issue "A Day In The Life": ecological investigation of learning in diverse communitiesnumero speciale "A Day In The Life": un'indagine ecologica sul costruirsidegli apprendimenti in comunità diverse Rassegna di Psicologia. 3 (XXIII), 61-77.

2005

Appleby, Y. and Gilbert, K. (2005) "Sometimes I tell them from my old family": Bi-lingual Family Language, Literacy and Numeracy Learning, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, Working Paper No 10.

Appleby, Y. and Hamilton , M. (2005) ‘Literacy as social practice: travelling between the everyday and other forms of learning’, in P. Sutherland and J. Crowther (eds) Lifelong Learning: Concepts and Contexts. London: Routledge.

Barton, D. and Hamilton, M. (2005) ‘Literacy, reification and the dynamics of social interaction,’ in D. Barton and K. Tusting (eds) Beyond Communities Of Practice: Language, Power And Social Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 14-35.

Barton, D. and Tusting, K. (eds) (2005) Beyond Communities Of Practice: Language, Power And Social Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Barton, D. and Papen, U. (eds.) (2005) Linking literacy and numeracy programmes in developing countries and the UK, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).

Dray, S. and Papen, U. (2004) 'Literacy and health: towards a methodology for investigating patients' participation in healthcare' Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 1.3

Gillen, J. , Accorti Gamannossi, B. and Cameron, C.A. (2005) "'Pronto, chi parla?' ('Hello, who is it?') telephones as artefacts and communication media in children's discourses" in J. Marsh (ed.) Popular Culture, New Media and Digital Literacy in Early Childhood. London: Routledge Falmer.

Gillen, J. & Petersen, A. (2005) 'Discourse Analysis' in B. Somekh & C. Lewin (eds) Research Methods in the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA/London: Sage Publications.

Hamilton, M. and Wilson, A. (eds) (2005) New Ways of Engaging New Learners: Insights from the First Round of the Practitioner-Led Research Initiative. London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).

Hamilton , M. and Hillier, Y. (2005) ‘Imagined spaces’, Adults Learning 7 (1):18-20.

Hamilton, M. (2005) ‘Just do it: literacies, everyday learning and the irrelevance of pedagogy’, Key note paper presented at CRLL International Conference “What Difference a Pedagogy Makes”, 24 – 25th June 2005. Download pdf document.

Hamilton, M. (2005) ‘Understanding the everyday: adult lives, literacies and informal learning’, in A. McKeough, L. Phillips, V. Timmons and J. Lupart (eds) Understanding Literacy Development: A Global View, Newark , NJ: Laurence Erlbaum.

Hodge, R. (2005) Learning and Life Transitions of Young People on an Entry to Employment (E2E) Programme, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre Working Paper No. 11.

Hurry, J., Brazier L., Snapes, K. and Wilson, A. (2005), Improving the literacy and numeracy of disaffected young people in custody and in the community: summary interim report of the first 18 months of the study, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).

Ivanič, R. and Tseng, M.L. (2005) Understanding the Relationships between Learning and Teaching: An Analysis of the Contribution of Applied Linguistics, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).

Ivanič, R. (2005) ‘The discoursal construction of writer identity’, in R. Beach, J. Green, M. Kamil and T. Shanahan (eds) Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Literacy Research, Revised Edition, Cresskill, NJ.: Hampton Press.

Papen, U. (2005) Adult Literacy as Social Practice – More than Skills, London: Routledge.

Papen, U. (2005) ‘Literacy and development: What works for whom? Or, how relevant is the social practices view of literacy for literacy education in developing countries?’ International Journal for Educational Development 25: 5-17.

Papen, U. (2005) ‘Exclusive, ethno and eco: representations of culture and nature in tourism discourses’, in A. Jaworski and A. Pritchard (eds.) Tourism, Language and Communication, Channel View Publications, pp. 79-98.

Papen, U. (2005) ‘Reading the bible and shopping on credit: literacy practices and literacy learning in a township of Windhoek, Namibia’, in A. Rogers (ed.) Urban Literacy, Hamburg: UNESCO Institute for Education, pp. 211-235.

Papen, U. and Walters, S. (2005) Health as a Topic in Adult Literacy, Numeracy and ESOL Classes, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre Working Paper No. 9.

Pitt, K. (2005) Debates in ESOL Teaching and Learning: Cultures, Communities and Classrooms, London: Routledge.

Porter, K., Cuban, S. & Comings, J. (2005)"One Day I Will Make It": A Study of Adult Student Persistence in Library Literacy Programs. New York: MDRC.

Sebba, M. and Dray, S. (2005) ‘Developing and using a corpus of written Creole’, in J.C. Beal, K.P. Corrigan and H. Moisl (eds) Models and Methods in the Handling of Unconventional Digital Corpora, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.

Tusting, K. (2005) ‘Language and power in communities of practice’, in D.Barton and K.Tusting (eds) Beyond Communities Of Practice: Language, Power And Social Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 36-54.

Tusting, K. & D. Barton (2005) ‘Community-based local literacies research’ in R. Beach, J. Green, M. Kamil & T. Shanahan (eds) Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Literacy Research. Second edition, New Jersey: Hampton Press, pp. 243-263.

Wilson, A. (2005) New ways of engaging new learners: lessons from round one of the practitioner-led research initiative (co-authored with M Hamilton) NRDC

Wilson, A. (2005) ‘Auld Frankie Vaughan was swingin' his grin up by the Drummy while Clint Easterhoose was slinging his thing on the silver screen. Acid drops in the rain of the summer of blood. So cool it was fuckin' freezin' man!' - Creativity in language as a strategy for survival’ in ‘Creativity in the English Language’ ed J. Maybin, Open University Press

2004

Barton, D., Ivanič, R., Appleby, Y., Hodge, R. and Tusting, K. (2004) Adult Learners’ Lives Project: Setting the Scene, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).

Gillen, J., Hancock, W.R., Accorti Gamannossi, B., Pinto, G., Tapanya, S., Didkowsky, N., Jackson, L. & Cameron, C.A. (2004) Social spaces of two-year-old girls: 'a day in the life'. [Abstract] Canadian Psychology 45 2a, p. 122-3.

Guest, M., Tusting, K. and Woodhead, L. (eds) (2004) Congregational Studies in the UK: Christianity in a Post-Christian Context, Ashgate.

Heelas, P. and Woodhead, L., with Seel, B., Tusting, K. and Szerszynski, B. (2004) The Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality, Oxford: Blackwell.

Hillier, Y. and Hamilton, M. (2004) ‘Changing faces of adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL’, Literacy Today, London: National Literacy Trust.

Hodge, R. (2004) Nightsafe- a Shelter for Young People Who Are Homeless: Engaging Young People in Learning, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, Working Paper No.7.

Hodge, R. and Pitt, K. with Barton, D. (2004) “This is Not Enough for One’s Life:” Perceptions of Living and Learning English in Blackburn by Students Seeking Asylum and Refugee Status, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre Working Paper 4. Also published in C. Roberts, C. (2004) ESOL Case Studies of Provision, Learner’s Needs and Resources, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).

Ivanič, R. (2004) ‘Discourses of writing and learning to write’, Language and Education 18 (3): 220 – 245.

Ivanič, R., Beck, D. Burgess, G., , Gilbert, K., Hodson, R., Hudson, R. and Woods, C. (2004) Listening to Learners: Practitioner Research on the Adult Learners’ Lives Project, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).

Ivanič, R. (2004) ‘Intertextual practices in the construction of multimodal texts in inquiry-based learning’, in N. Shuart-Faris and D. Bloome (eds) Uses of Intertextuality in Classroom and Educational Research, Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

Roberts, C., Baynham, M., Shrubshall, P., Barton, D., Chopra, P., Cooke, M., Hodge, R., Pitt, K., Schellekens, P., Wallace, C. and Whitfield, S. (2004) English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) - case studies of provision, learners' needs and resources: Research Report. London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).

Walters, S. (2004) ‘”I don’t think she knew I couldn’t do it” Bangladeshi pupils and learning to read in the Year 3 classroom’, in B. Jeffrey and G. Walford (eds) Ethnographies of Educational and Cultural Conflicts: Strategies and Resolutions. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Wilson, A. (2004) ‘Four days and a breakfast - time, space and literacy/ies in the prison community' in K. Leander K. and M. Sheehy (eds) Space Matters: Assertions of Space in Literacy Practice and Research, New York: Peter Lang.

Wilson, A. (2004) ‘ “Last week I wrote a letter for an illiterate guy to his Mum ... he wanted to pay me some roll-up tobacco or chocolate but I told him to get me an envelope and a carrier bag to put my sewing in”: The normalisation of reciprocity in the prison setting’, Scottish Youth Issues Journal Vol. 8.

Wilson, A. (2004) ‘I go to get away from the cockroaches: Educentricity and the politics of Education in Prisons’ in Identity, Agency and Social Institutions in Educational Ethnography in Studies in Educational Ethnography, eds Troman G, Jeffrey B, Walford G pub. Jai Press, Oxford, UK

Woodhead, L., Guest, M. and Tusting, K. (2004) "Congregational studies: taking stock", in Guest, M., Tusting, K. and Woodhead, L. (eds) (2004) Congregational Studies in the UK: Christianity in a Post-Christian Context, Ashgate.

2003

Appleby, Y. (2003) Retention and Achievement: a Focussed Review, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, Working Paper No 3.

Barton, D. & Pitt, K. (2003) Adult ESOL Pedagogy: a Review of Research, an Annotated Bibliography and Recommendations for Further Research, Research Review, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).

Comings, J., Cuban, S., Bos, J., & Porter, K. (2003). “As long as it takes:” Responding to the challenges of adult student persistence in library literacy programs. New York: MDRC.

Cuban, S. (2003). “So lucky to be like that:” Two case studies of women learners persisting in a Hawai’i literacy program. March issue. Adult Basic Education.

Gillen, J. (2003) Socialized subjectivity: exploring the 'double reality' of an EdD (doctorate of education) bulletin board. International Journal of Educational Research 39 (8) 873-884.

Gillen, J. (2003) The Language of Children. London: Routledge.

Gillen, J. (2003) 'Engaged from birth: children under two talking on telephones' in A. Schorr, B. Campbell & M. Schenk (eds) Communication Research and Media Science in Europe. Berlin: DeGruyter. pp. 479-97. ISBN 3 11 017216 X.

Gillen, J. and Hall, N. (2003) 'The emergence of early childhood literacy' in Hall, N., Larson, J and Marsh, J. (eds) The Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy. Thousand Oaks, CA/London: Sage Publications.

Gillen, J. and Goddard, A. (2003) 'Medium Management for Beginners: the discursive practices of undergraduate and mature novice users of internet relay chat, compared with those of young children using the telephone' inM. Bondi and S. Stati (eds) Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis. Universita degli Studi de Bologna, Italy. 15th-17th June 2000. Niemeyer: TFC Bingen. pp219-230.

Hodge, R. 2003 A Review of Recent Ethnographies of Literacy, Lancaster Literacy Research Centre, Working Paper No. 1.

Shahnaz, I. and Hamilton, M. (2003) ‘The English mass media: its contribution to adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL (ALNE) policy 1970-2000’, Fine Print 26 (1) 34-37, Melbourne: Victorian Adult Literacy and Basic Education Council Inc.

Shahnaz, I. and Hamilton, M. (2003) ‘The contribution of the mass media to adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL policy in England, 1970-2000’, RaPAL Journal 50. England. Reprinted in Herrington, M. and Kendall, A. 2005 (eds) Insights in Research and Practice, Leicester: NIACE.

Tusting, K. and Barton, D. (2003) Models of Adult Learning: a Literature Review, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).

Wilson, A. (2003) ‘Nike Trainers – My One True Love, Without You I am Nothing’, in J. Androutopolous and A. Georgakopoulo (eds) Discourse Constructions of Youth Identity, Amsterdam: J. Benjamins.

Wilson, A. (2003) ‘Researching in the third space - locating, claiming and valuing the research domain’, in T. Lillis T. and J. Maybin (eds) Language, Literacy and Education: A Reader, Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Wilson, A. (2003) 'Reading a library - Writing a book' prisoners' engagement with texts' BERA 2002 conference paper, http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00002546.htm

Wilson, A. (2003) 'Research in Transition: Implications for Policy, Practice and People' in Transitions: People, Policies and Practices, Conference Proceedings and Collected Papers, International Corrections and Prisons Association, Ottawa, Canada

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