Dr Lucy Henning, of Roehampton University, has shared with us this link to a free version of her latest article in the Cambridge Journal of Education. (If the link has expired, write to Lucy.HenningATRoehampton.ac.uk). Lucy has an book in production with the Routledge Research in Literacy series now co-edited by Uta Papen and myself. Her new book is called “Researching Early Childhood Literacy in the Classroom: Literacy as a social practice.”
Lucy writes, “I am currently doing some work on participant frameworks and young children’s in-class construction of literacy practices away from teaching adults. It similar to the work I did for my book, but now I am hoping to take a more in depth look at how the children organise their interactions as they reproduce their in-class peer culture. I am interested in exploring how far this process can actually be observed happening.
“I am drawing very much on the work of American linguistic anthropologists and ethnographers from the last century to inform this aspect of my work (Charles Goodwin, Marjorie Harness Goodwin, Erving Goffman) – I would be glad to make contact with colleagues whose current work is in a similar field.”
Julia Gillen
Literacies Log 