Professor David Barton
Professor of Language and Literacy
Degree: BA (Sussex), MA (Essex), PhD (London)
Associated research centres and groups: Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
Current Teaching
Undergraduate: Language in the media.
MA: Literacy Studies
MA and PhD: Qualitative Research Methods
We are planning a new MA in Digital Language and Literacies, starting in October 2012. Come to Lancaster for a year!!!
Research Interests
I am Professor of Language and Literacy and Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk. I am currently interested in all aspects of language online, including the interaction of words and images, multilingual issues, changes to vernacular practices and learning. I am especially interested in language on the photo-sharing site Flickr. I am also writing about methodology, especially ethnographic approaches to literacy research. Also academics writing.
The Anthropology of Writing: Understanding textually mediated worlds edited by David Barton and Uta Papen and published by Continuum is now available. Download the first chapter.
The research briefing on digital literacies which Julia Gillen and I wrote can be downloaded here - Gillen, J. & D. Barton (2010) Digital Literacies. ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme -Technology Enhanced Learning commentary.
I enjoyed writing a paper on being stranded by the volcanic ash cloud in April 2010: Barton, D. (2011) People and technologies as resources in times of uncertainty. Mobilities, 6(1) 57-65.
My book Literacy has come out in Greek and is published by Papazisi publishers, Athens and it will be published in Korean by Honsei University Press in 2011.
And a couple of other recent papers:
Lee, C. & D. Barton, Constructing Glocal Identities through Multilingual Writing Practices on Flickr.com. International Multilingualism Research Journal, 2011, 5(1),39-59.
Barton, D. (2009) Understanding textual practices in a changing world. In M. Baynham & M. Prinsloo (eds.) The Future of Literacy Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, p38-53.
My Literacies book series with Routledge is thriving, the latest volume being Design Literacies, by Mary P. Sheridan and Jennifer Rowsell.
Potential Doctoral Proposals
Language Online. 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.
Books
- The Anthropology of Writing: Understanding textually-mediated worlds. Continuum, 2010. (edited with Uta Papen.)
- 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
And please note that the NRDC Report listed here and under others under eprints, below, can be downloaded here
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).
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
David Barton has 41 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Gillen, Julia and Barton, David (2010) Digital literacies. Working Paper. ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme, London.
Barton, David and Papen, Uta (2010) The anthropology of writing : understanding textually-mediated social worlds. Continuum, London. ISBN 978-1441108852
Barton, David (2010) Vernacular writing on the web. In: The anthropology of writing. Continuum, London, pp. 109-125. ISBN 978-1441108852
Barton, David and Papen, Uta (2010) What is the anthropology of writing? In: The Anthropology of Writing. Understanding textually-mediated worlds. Continuum, London, pp. 3-33. ISBN 978-1441108852
Lee, Carmen Ka-Man LEE and Barton, David (2009) English and glocal identities on Web2.0 : the case of Flickr.com. In: Englishization in Asia : language and cultural issues. Open University of Hong Kong Press, Hong Kong, pp. 1-31. ISBN 9789627707622
Ivanic, Roz and Edwards, Richard and Barton, David and Martin-Jones, Marilyn and Fowler, Zoe and Hughes, Buddug and Mannion, Greg and Miller, Kate and Satchwell, Candice and Smith, June (2009) Improving learning in college : rethinking literacies across the curriculum. Routledge, London. ISBN 978-0415469128
Barton, David (2009) Literacy practices. In: English Language: Description, Variation and Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 477-486. ISBN 9781403945891
Barton, David (2009) Researching adult learners’ lives to understand engagement and progression in learning. Literacy and Numeracy Studies, 17. pp. 51-61. ISSN 1441-0559
Barton, David (2009) Understanding textual practices in a changing world. In: The Future of Literacy Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 38-53. ISBN 978-0230553712
Appleby, Yvon and Barton, David (2008) Adults lives and learning in different contexts : a view over time. In: Tracking adult literacy and numeracy skills: findings from longitudinal research. Routledge, London, pp. 349-364. ISBN 978-0415958585
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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