Contact Details
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Room: County Main, B127
Professor David Barton
Professor of Language and Literacy
Degree: BA (Sussex), MA (Essex), PhD (London)
Associated research centres and groups: Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
Research Interests
David Barton is Professor of Language and Literacy and Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk.
I am gradually gradually updating this web page (but not my photo!). One piece of news, I now have part time post as Visiting Professor II at the Univiersity of Stavanger. I go there for a week at a time every few months, and it is great fun and very stimulating.
And Improving Learning in College, which is much more interesting than it sounds, is available....and the book celebrating Roz Ivanic's work, Why Writing Matters (edited by A. Carter, T. Lillis & S. Parkin, published by John Benjamins) is also out.
Potential Doctoral Proposals
Local literacies; Vernacular literacies; Ethnographic studies of literacy practices in communities, workplaces, educational settings and online; The textually mediated social world; Adult literacy education; The language practices of Web2 sites such as Flickr.
Bookish Publications
- Improving Learning in College. Routledge, 2009. (written with lots of other people, especially Roz Ivanic.)
- Responding to People's Lives. Leicester: NIACE, 2008. (with Y. Appleby)
- Literacy, Lives and Learning. Routledge, 2007. (with R. Ivanic, Y. Appleby, R. Hodge, K. Tusting)
- Literacy: an introduction to the ecology of written language, Blackwell, 2nd edition, 2007
- Models of Adult Learning, Leicester: NIACE, 2006. (with K. Tusting)
- Beyond Communities Of Practice: Language, Power And Social Context. Cambridge University Press, 2005. (ed. with K. Tusting)
- Letter writing as a social practice, John Benjamins, 2000. (ed. with N. Hall)
- Situated Literacies Routledge, 2000. (ed. with Mary Hamilton and Roz Ivanic)
- Local Literacies: Reading and writing in one community, Routledge, 1998. (with Mary Hamilton)
- Worlds of literacy (co-editor, Multilingual Matters, 1994)
- Sustaining local literacies ,(editor, Multilingual Matters, 1994)
- Writing in the community, (co-editor, Sage, 1992)
See also the publications page of the Literacy Research Centre, http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/resources/publications.htm
NRDC Reports
- D. Barton, K. Tusting, R. Hodge & Y. Appleby, (2008) Learners' experience of work. London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC).
- K. Tusting & D. Barton, (2007) Programmes for unemployed people since the 1970s: the changing place of literacy, language and numeracy. London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). 58 pages.
- Y. Appleby & D. Barton, (2008) Responding to people's lives. London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). Now published by NIACE
- D. Barton, Appleby, Y., Hodge, R., Tusting, K. & Ivanic, R. (2006) Relating adults' lives and learning: participation and engagement in different settings. London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC) 40 pages. >
- R. Ivanic, Appleby, Y., Hodge, R., Tusting, K. and Barton, D. (2006) Linking learning and everyday life: a social perspective on adult language, literacy and numeracy classes, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). 50 pages.
- D. Barton & U. Papen (eds.) (2005) Linking literacy programmes in developing countries and the UK, London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). 100 pages.
- D. Barton, (co-author with 10 others). (2004) English for speakers of other languages (ESOL): case studies of provision, learners' needs and resources. London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). 128 pages.
- D. Barton (co-author with 4 others) (2003) Adult Learners' Lives: setting the scene. National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). 107 pages.
- K. Tusting & D. Barton (2003) Models of Adult Learning. National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). 42 pages. Now published by NIACE.
- D. Barton & K. Pitt (2003) Adult ESOL pedagogy: a review of research, an annotated bibliography and recommendations for future research. National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC). 46 pages.
see www.nrdc.org.uk for further NRDC Reports
ePrints Publications Repository
David Barton has 30 publication records in the Lancaster University ePrints repository. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title.
Barton, David and Appleby, Y. and Hodge, R. and Ivanic, Roz and Tusting, Karin (2007) Literacy, Lives and Learning. Routledge. ISBN 9780415424851
Tusting, Karin and Barton, D. P. (2007) Programmes for unemployed people since the 1970s: the changing place of language, literacy and numeracy. . National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy, London.
Ivanic, R. and Appleby, Y. and Hodge, R. and Tusting, Karin and Barton, D. P. (2006) Linking learning and everyday life: a social perspective on adult language, literacy and numeracy classes. . National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy., London.
Barton, D. P. and Appleby, Y. and Hodge, R. and Tusting, Karin and Ivanic, R. (2006) Relating adults' lives and learning: participation and engagement in different settings. . National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy, London.
Barton, David P. and Ivanic, Roz and Appleby, Y. and Hodge, Rachel and Tusting, Karin (2006) Relating language, literacy and numeracy teaching to adult learners' lives : a social perspective. . National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy, London.
Barton, David (2006) The significance of a social practice view of language, literacy and numeracy. In: Adult literacy, numeracy and language : policy, practice and research. Open University Press, Maidenhead, pp. 21-30. ISBN 9780335219384
Barton, D. P. and Tusting, Karin (2005) Beyond communities of practice: language, power and social context. Learning in doing . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0521836433 (hbk.)
Tusting, Karin and Barton, D. P. (2005) Community-based local literacies research. In: Multidisciplinary perspectives on literacy research. Language & social processes . Hampton Press, Cresskill, N. J., pp. 243-263. ISBN 1572736267
Barton, David P. (2005) Exploring family literacy. In: Insights from research and practice : a handbook for adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL practitioners. NIACE, Leicester, pp. 528-533.
Barton, David and Papen, Uta (2005) Linking literacy programmes in developing countries and the UK. National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy, London.
Other Interests and Hobbies
and by popular request.... my Flickr site is at www.flickr.com/litrate
Associated Keywords: Adult learning, Adult literacy education in developing countries, Digital literacies, Informal learning, Literacies, Literacy, Literacy practices, Photography, Qualitative research methods, Social linguistics, Vernacular literacies, Word and image studies, Writing systems
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