Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The award is given every year to an inspiring, creative teacher of literacy. Nominations are invited from headteachers. Shortlisted teachers are then invited to submit portfolios of their work. Click here to find out more about the award and here to make a submission.
Thursday, January 05, 2012
This one day research symposium, collaboratively organised by UKLA and BERA’s Language and Literacy SIG, will be chaired by Ros Ivanic, formerly of the University of Lancaster. It draws together significant scholars from the field of writing to share their recent research and to discuss research, policy and practice issues. The intention of the symposium is to explore cutting edge research in writing across the age phases 3-18 years, to reflect upon the different methodological lenses which the three researchers employ, and to consider the consequences of their work for the teaching and learning of writing. There will be opportunities for discussion and debate and to explore synergies between the projects and the propositions presented.
Following the success of last year’s UKLA International Research Symposium, we recommend early booking to secure your place.
Speakers:
Deborah Wells Rowe, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University: The Affordances of Multimodal Interaction Analysis for Studying the Beginnings of Writing.
Cathy Burnett, Sheffield Hallam University: Children Writing on Screen: Negotiating Meanings in Primary Classrooms.
Debra Myhill, University of Exeter: Reconceptualising the Role of Grammar in the Teaching of Writing
Download the conference flier and Book online
Friday, December 23, 2011
Conference, Saturday 4th February 2012, The Globe Theatre, London, SE1 9DT.
What kind of English curriculum do we need?
We still await details of what The National Curriculum Review has proposed for English.
During the period of the Review, the Looking for the Heart of English group has been conducting its own fieldwork across the country to see what teachers think really matters in English teaching.
This conference at Shakespeare’s Globe presents the findings from these discussions and provides an opportunity for participants to take the debate to a wider audience.
Looking for the Heart of English is a group of individuals from all sectors of education and executive members of LATE, UKLA and NAAE.
Download the conference flier below or see our conference page.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
If you think you have an inspiring, creative teacher of literacy, why not nominate them for this prestigious award.*
Please visit www.ukla.org/awards for more information, and click here to download the full invitation letter from UKLA President Alayne Öztürk.
*All nominated teachers (or their schools) need to be UKLA members. Click here to find out about our low cost membership and to join.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Edited by Bronwyn Davies, University of Melbourne
Gabrielle Cliff Hodges, University of Cambridge
Narratives are integral to multiple literacies – for example, print literacy, media literacy, emotional literacy, social literacy. They are integral to the development of identities, cultures, social movements, and knowledges of all kinds. Today we are inundated with multiple and contradictory narratives – in books, films, games or picturebooks, stories told to us by friends or the stories we narrate to ourselves and others about our lives, about who we are and how we make sense of and relate to the world. We use a variety of media to create narratives and we consume them across media, often without realising, through advertisements, news stories and in our everyday encounters with others. Some argue that storytelling is a basic human impulse. Others argue that narratives are accounts of something real that precedes the narrative. Or narratives may be understood as constitutive not just of individual identity, but the possibilities through which life can be imagined and made real. This special edition of Literacy, focussing on narrative, aims to juxtapose different perspectives on narrative, opening up new insights into the multiple ways in which narratives are imbricated in learning, in becoming literate, and in the complex practices of social being. It will also explore the ways in which researchers use narratives to conceive, produce and analyse research questions and data.
Contributors are invited to submit articles that focus on narrative and literacy from different theoretical, pedagogical, practical, policy and/or research perspectives. Some of the questions we would like to see addressed include:
Please refer to the ‘Notes for contributors’ on the back cover of Literacy or at
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1741-4369
Please mark submissions ‘Narrative Special Issue’.
Deadline: 30th June 2012
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UKLA has allowed me to further develop my interest in multiliteracies by providing me with the means to discuss and share practice with other like-minded colleagues. ”
Martin Waller
Primary Teacher
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