Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The United Kingdom Literacy Association, the National Association for the Teaching of English and other professional associations wish to know and represent members' views on the government’s agenda for the teaching of reading in the early years. In whichever sector of education you have an interest, we should like to know your response to these issues. The questionnaire is short and responses will be anonymous, but your opinion will help to shape our joint engagement with these crucial developments.
Please click here to complete the survey, your participation is very much appreciated.
Spoken language in the new National Curriculum: radical reform or business as usual? An Invitation from Professor Robin Alexander
UKLA members will be familiar with Robin Alexander's work on dialogic teaching and his long campaign to raise the profile and quality of classroom talk. Together with others he persuaded the national curriculum review's 'expert panel' to include a firm statement on oracy in their report last December. In February this year, at Robin's request, DfE held a seminar on oracy and classroom talk in the new national curriculum, attended by the Schools Minister, at which Robin and (by videolink from the United States) Lauren Resnick gave presentations and which was attended by others working in this field, including Neil Mercer. From these promising beginnings we hope we can anticipate major and positive changes in way spoken language is handled in the draft programmes of study for English and other subjects which are due to be published later this month, though Robin also noted, by way of warning, the rise and sad decline of a long succession of official initiatives in the domain of language in general and talk in particular.
You can read and/or download Robin Alexander's DfE presentation below. Better still, when the draft programmes of study are published, why not check to see how far his arguments and proposals have penetrated DfE thinking? You may also like to draw on his paper, and the extensive evidence it cites, during the period of consultation in which we hope all UKLA members will conspicuously participate.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Notice of AGM 2012: We look forward to welcoming members to the Association’s AGM which will be held at University of Leicester on Saturday 7th July 2012. The Agenda is available to download below.
Notice of Election 2012
Elections for Trustees will take place at the AGM. Nominations must be received by noon Friday 29th June 2012 at UKLA, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH. The nomination forms are at the end of this notice. If you are interested in standing for election and would like further information about what is involved, please contact the Administrator via email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) who will send your request to the appropriate person. Should nominations exceed vacancies elections will be by ballot at the AGM. To serve as a either a Trustee you must be a UKLA member in good standing nominated and seconded by members also in good standing. Nomination forms follow this notice.
Elections of Trustees to serve on UKLA Executive Committee. Trustees are elected annually except for those officers in the Presidential group who are exempt using the Association’s provisions under Standing Orders, i.e. our rules. This year nominations are sought for the following posts:
Treasurer
Secretary
Convenor: Publications
Convenor: International
Convenor : Conference
Convenor: Marketing and Publicity
Convenor: Membership and Awards
Convenor: Research
Convenor: Professional Development
Notice and Agenda for AGM 2012
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
This joint issue of JRR and Literacy, published by Wiley Blackwell and UKLA can be accessed FREE here until the end of July.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The RAI has issued its Call for Papers and Proposals for the 36th Annual International Reading Association of Ireland (RAI) Conference. The theme of this year’s conference is From Literacy Research to Classroom Practice: Insights and Inspiration. The 36th RAI Annual International Conference takes place in the Marino Institute of Education, Dublin from September 27th -29th 2012. This year's keynote speakers are Dr. Frank Serafini, Associate Professor of Literacy Education and Children's Literature at Arizona State University and Dr. Áine Cregan, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.
For more information, please visit http://www.reading.ie/ or download the proposal form below.
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