Literacy and Development Group

Researchers from the School of Education and Lifelong Learning and the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia have joined together to support and stimulate research interest and teaching in the field of literacy and development. Taking a 'situated literacies' approach, we aim to combine theory and practice, to engage actively with key policy institutions (in the UK and internationally) and to encourage cross-cultural interaction between literacy researchers and practitioners in countries of the North and South. The research interests of the Literacy and Development Group (LDG) include gender, religious literacies, language and education, minority literacies, numeracy practices, ICT and multi-modality, academic literacy, non-formal education and lifelong learning.

For any queries about these seminars, please contact: Nitya Rao (N.Rao@uea.ac.uk) in DEV or Anna Robinson-Pant (A.Robinson-Pant@uea.ac.uk) in EDU. Please note that the times vary.

Education and Development Public Seminars 2010 - 2011

Friday October 22, 2010 - Alan Pagden, EDU, UEA, 'Drawing Children's Geographies'
Room A1.83, 12 - 1pm
Thursday October 28, 2010 - Kate pahl, Department of Educational Studies, University of Sheffield, 'The Uses of Literacy revisited: participatory and ecological approaches to literacy research'.
EDU Room 1.40, 1 - 2pm

Friday November 12, 2010 - Open Session, Seminar on Education and Language Policy  for Diversity and Social Cohesion.
Thomas Paine Study Centre 1.1

Friday November 19, 2010 - Mikko Perkio, Visiting Fellow, 'Was female education the catalyst? Analyzing factors of recent social development in Bangladesh'.
Room A1.83, 12 - 1pm

Friday February 11, 2011 - Professor Adrian Holliday, Canterbury Christchurch University, 'Cultural difference, barrier or opportunity'.
Room A1.83, 12 – 1pm

Thursday March 3, 2011 - Professor Isabel Santaolalla, Roehampton University, ‘Cinema and Technology for Development: an Audiovisual Project in the Saharawi Refugee Camps’.
EDU Room 1.40, 12 - 1pm

Friday April 8, 2011 - Dr. Theresa Lillis, Open University, ‘English, scientific publishing and participation in the global knowledge economy’.
Room A1.83, 12 - 1pm

Wednesday May 11, 2011 - Professor Brian Street, King’s College, London, ‘The Academic Literacies' approach to writing support in Universities’.
Room - A01.02, 3.30 - 5pm.