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Literacy

The journal Literacy is published three times a year and is received by all members of UKLA. It is a refereed journal for those interested in the study and development of literacy. The following kinds of contributions are welcomed:

• Reports of recent research in the field of literacy
• Informed and analytical accounts of innovative practice
• Critiques of recent policy developments
• Short reports of research in progress

Editor

Professor Kathy Hall
School of Education
University College Cork
Republic of Ireland

Editorial Board

Myra Barrs (UK), Barbara Comber (Australia), Teresa Cremin (UK), Viv Ellis (UK), Sue Ellis (UK), Peter Geekie (Australia), Andrew Goodwyn (UK), Shirley Brice Heath (USA), Charmian Kenner (UK), Margaret Mackey (Canada), Guy Merchant (UK) Olivia O’Sullivan (UK) Lyn Overall (UK), Kate Pahl (UK), Lissa Paul ( Canada), Marian Sainsbury (UK), Janet Soler (UK)

Editorial Advisory Group

Gabrielle Cliff Hodges (UK), Margaret Cook (UK), Sue Dymoke (UK), Rosie Flewitt (UK), Judith Graham (UK), Christine Hall (UK), Andrew Lambirth (UK), Margaret Mallett (UK), Tony Martin (UK), Trinka Messenheimer (USA), Elaine Millard (UK), Helen Nixon (Australia), Malcolm Reed (UK), Sally Rundell (UK), Dinah Volk (UK)

Recent Articles in 2009 include:

• The 'good' parent in relation to early childhood literacy: symbolic terrain and lived practice by 
Sue Nichols, Helen Nixon and Jennifer Rowsell
• "That's more like how they know me as a person": one primary pre-service teacher's stories of her personal and 'professional' digital practices by 
Cathy Burnett
• Impressions, improvisations and compositions: reframing children's text production in social network sites by 
Clare Dowdall
• Does teaching complex sentences have to be complicated? Lessons from children's online writing by Alison Kelly and Kimberly Safford

• Reading lessons: teacher–pupil interactions with text during three KS1 shared reading sessions by
Claire John

• Travel with a Time Lord: using media to enhance literacy by 
Jacqueline Harrett and Theresa Benjamin

Back issues

Legacy files of Literacy or Reading, back to Volume 1 (1967), are now available to logged-in UKLA members on Blackwell Synergy.

Call for Papers

There is a call for papers for a special issue on the theme of The Power of the Text to be published in 2010. Guest Editors for this are Vivienne Smith and Margaret Mackey.

A new ‘call for papers’ is out for a Special Issue in 2011 on the theme of The Politics of Literacy. Janet Soler and Andrew Goodwyn are guest editing this special issue.

You can find further details about Literacy, including notes for potential contributors, by visiting its page on the Blackwell site.