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Dr. Sheila Aikman, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK: ‘Can indigenous intercultural education promote intercultural justice for all?’.

Cristina Aliagas Marin
, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 'Teenager’s private communication: Vernacular writing under the school-desk' 

Dr Patricia Ames, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos/Young Lives: 'Literacy and inequality affecting educational transitions: Comparing practices and trajectories across contexts'

Prof. Nino Bariola, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru: 'Subaltern Literacies: A Glance at the Peruvian System of Education Performance Measurement.'

Gaye Barton, Director, Centre for Foundation Studies, Waikato Institute of Technology: 'Embodied nemeracy: a study of maths learning at two technical institutes.'

Prof. Lesley Bartlett, Teachers’ College Colombia, USA, ‘Multilingual literacies and inequality among people of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic’.

Dipta Bhog, Nirantar, Centre for Gender and Education. N.Delhi.India:'Constructing Gendered Knowledge: A Feminist Critique of School Textbooks'.

Dr Ian Cheffy, SIL International:'Facing inequality – local conceptions of the role of literacy in addressing inequality in Cameroon.'

Liz Chilton, University of Birmingham: 'Family Literacy, Individual Learning Plans and Foucault: tracing what’s behind the paperwork.' 

Dr Priti Chopra, Greenwich University: '(Un)veiling Desire: re-defining relationships between gendered adult education subjects and adult education programmes.'

Caroline Dyer, University of Leeds: 'Literacy for or against the poor? Language, literacy and social equity in Indian government schools.'

John Elliott, Centre for Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia: 'Widening access to publication in international refereed journals: a case study of a failed attempt to reduce linguistic, cultural and institutional barriers to publication.'

Lucio Esposito, Bereket Kebede and Bryan Maddox, School of International Development, University of East Anglia: 'Literacy practices and schooling: A Case study from Mozambique.'

Jude Fransman, Institute of Education, University of London: 'Fixing, Designing and Transforming Literacy: Tracing approaches to literacy policy through the development of an evaluation framework for Reflect'

Malini Ghose, Nirantar, India: ‘Everyday Literacy and Numeracy Practices: Experiences of Involving Practitioners in Research and Material Development’.

John Gordon, Lecturer in Education and Secondary PGCE Tutor for English, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia: 'Can you hear me?'

Iran Guerrero, Departamento de Investigaciones Educatives, Cinvestav, Mexico, 'New technologies in Mexican classrooms: The teacher's voice in students’ work'

Prof. Mary Hamilton and Kathy Pitt, University of Lancaster, UK: ‘Changing policy discourses: constructing literacy and inequalities’.

Dr Judy Hunter
, School of Social and Cultural Studies, Massey University: 'Knowing and constructing the other: Workplace literacy, language and agency'

Kasper Juffermans, Dept of Language and Culture Studies & Babylon Centre for Diversity in Society
Tilburg University: '“Do you want me to translate this in English or in a better Mandinka language?”:
Material and linguistic resources for vernacular literacy practices in peri-urban Gambia.'

Seraphin Kamdem, Language and Cultures of Africa, School of Oriental and African Studies: 'Literacy, Educational Change and Minority Languages: Disentangling Contradictory Policies and Practices in Cameroon'

Dr Judy Kalman, Departamento de Investigaciones Educatives, Cinvestav, 'Dear San Antonio: Please do not find me a husband, I am fine just the way I am'.

Sjaak Kroon, Jeanne Kurvers, Marilyn Martin-Jones, Aone van Engelenhoven, Estêvão Cabral, Danielle Boon and Edegar da Conceição Savio: 'Becoming Literature in Timor-Leste: Adult Literacy Programmes Past and Present in a Multilingual Nation.'

Dr. Elda Lyster, School of Adult and Higher Education, University of KwaZulu Natal,  South Africa: ‘Perpetuating inequality? The training of adult literacy teachers in South Africa’.

Juliet McCaffery, University of Sussex, 'Gypsies and Travellers:  Capabilities, Power, and Social Justice.' 


Dr. Bryan Maddox, University of East Anglia, UK: ‘Literacy Inequalities and Social Justice’.

Dr. Anna Magyer,  Dr Anna Robinson-Pant and Theresa Lilllis , Centre for Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia, UK: ‘Challenging academic literacy practices? Reflections on an international journal's attempts to address inequalities in academic publishing’.

Dr Erika Mein, University of Texass-EL Paso: 'Literacies, identities, and grassroots social movements in northern Mexico: The case of espina y jugo'

Amy North, Institute of Education, University of London: 'Literacy in the lives of Nepalese migrant domestic workers in London'

Dr. Nitya Rao, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK: ‘Dealing with Poverty and Language Inequalities: Madrasas as a Strategy for Contesting dominant Literacy in Rural Bangladesh’.

Dr. Fauzia Shamim, University of Karachi, Pakistan:  ‘Linguistic inequalities: the Urdu-English medium divide in Pakistan’.

Dr Barbara Trudell and Rudy Klaas, SIL International: 'Freedom for what? Independent readers in the two-thirds world'

Karin Tusting, Lancaster University Literacy Research Centre, 'Paperwork, funding and control.'


Dr. Virginia Zavala, Humanities Department, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru: ‘Tensions in the Appropriation of Academic Discourse: Literacy, Culture and Power in Higher Education in Peru.

 

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