Thursday, January 05, 2012 . Posted by Trish
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 . Posted by Trish
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.
Monday, December 12, 2011 . Posted by Trish
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
Monday, December 05, 2011 . Posted by Trish
Due to several requests for an extension of the deadline for papers and proposals for the 2012 UKLA International Conference, we have pushed the date back to Monday 19th December 2011. To submit your proposal visit the conference page here.
Monday, November 07, 2011 . Posted by Trish
The IBBY World Congress 2012
At a press launch at the recent International Children’s Book Fair in Bologna it was announced that the 33rd IBBY World Congress will be held in London from 23rd to 26th August 2012, the first time it will have been in the UK for 30 years. The venue is Imperial College, in London’s cultural heartland, close to major museums and the Albert Hall with Hyde Park just a short walk away.
The theme is Crossing Boundaries: Translations and Migrations.
Speakers so far confirmed are:
For further information see www.ibbycongress2012.org
or contact Co-Directors:
Ann Lazim .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Kathy Lemaire .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Being a member of UKLA helps me in my job because the journals, magazines and newsletters provide me with news, views, research reports and high quality articles on all aspects of home and school literacy. ”
Bev Barnes
Primary Consultant
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