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1. Language Online

   Investigating Digital Texts and Practices

   By David Barton, Carmen Lee

   To Be Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Local Literacies

   Reading and Writing in One Community

   By David Barton, Mary Hamilton

   Series: Routledge Linguistics Classics

   Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people’s everyday lives. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Lancaster, England, the authors analyse how they use literacy in their day-to-day lives. It follows four people in detail...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Improving Learning in College

   Rethinking Literacies Across the Curriculum

   By Roz Ivanic, Richard Edwards, David Barton, Marilyn Martin-Jones, Zoe Fowler, Buddug Hughes, Greg Mannion, Kate Miller, Candice Satchwell, June Smith

   Series: Improving Learning

   What's the problem with literacy at college? How might everyday literacy be harnessed for educational ends? Based on the first major study of literacy practices in colleges in the UK, this book explores the reading and writing associated with learning subjects across the college curriculum. It...

   Published February 15th 2009 by Routledge
4. Literacy, Lives and Learning

   By David Barton, Roz Ivanic, Yvon Appleby, Rachel Hodge, Karin Tusting

   Series: Literacies

   Demonstrating what it is like to be an adult learner in today’s world, this book focuses on language, literacy and numeracy learning. The authors explore the complex relationship between learning and adults’ lives, following a wide range of individual students in various formal learning situations,...

   Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge
5. Expanding the Criminological Imagination

   Edited by Alana Barton, Karen Corteen, David Scott, Dave Whyte

   This book brings together a series of writings on the problems facing contemporary criminology, highlighting the main theoretical priorities of critical analysis and their application to substantive case studies of research in action. Its main aim is to establish the conceptual and practical...

   Published October 31st 2006 by Willan
6. Local Literacies

   Reading and Writing in One Community

   By David Barton, Mary Hamilton

   Published October 31st 2002 by Routledge
7. Situated Literacies

   Theorising Reading and Writing in Context

   Edited by David Barton, Mary Hamilton, Roz Ivanic

   Series: Literacies

   Situated Literacies is a rich and varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. Each contribution, written in a clear, accessible style, makes the link between literacies in specific contexts and broader social practices.Detailed ethnographic...

   Published October 20th 1999 by Routledge