Publications of the Literacy and Development Group
Literacy Related Publications
Aikman, S. 2009 ‘The contradictory Languages of Fishing and Gold Panning in the Peruvian Amazon’ Maritime Studies, Special Issue on Literacy and Fishing. Vol 8 2) pp. 50-71.
Aikman, S. 2005 ‘The Education MDGs: achieving gender equality through curriculum and pedagogy change’, with. E. Unterhalter and C. Challender. In C. Sweetman (ed) Gender and the Millennium Development Goals, Oxfam, Oxford.
Aikman, S. 2004 ‘Es la Educacion Bilingue un medio para mantener la lengua? Un studio en la Amazonia peruana. Escritura y Sociedad: nuevas perspectives teoricas y etnograficas. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.
Aikman, S.2003 La Educacion Indigena en Sudamerica – interculturalidad y bilinguismo en Madre de Dios, Peru. Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP): Lima.
Aikman, S. 2003 Indigenous Language Education: new possibilities, ongoing restraints. Special Issue Comparative Education 39, 2, with S. May.
Aikman, S. 2003 ‘Communicacion para el autodesarrollo’ In Huertas and A. Garcia Altamirano (eds) Los Pueblos Indigenas de Madre de Dios. IWGIA, Copenhagen.
Aikman, S. 2002 ‘Women’s oral knowledge and the poverty of formal education in the SE Peruvian Amazon’. Gender and Development: Poverty. Vol 10, No. 3 pp.41-50.
Aikman, S. 2001 ‘Literacies, languages and developments in Peruvian Amazonia’. In B. Street (ed) Literacy and Development: ethnographic perspectives. London: Routledge.
Cameron, J. and Cameron, S. (2005) ‘Economic Benefits of Adult Literacy Interventions’, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, XIX, No. 4, October 2005. pp 483-509.
Chitrakar, R. and Maddox, B (in press) ‘A Community Literacy Project in Nepal’ in Hornberger, N. (ed), The Encyclopaedia of Language and Education, Springer, Heidelburg.
Cox, S (2005) ‘Intention and Meaning in Young Children’s Drawing’, International Journal of Art and Design Education, Vol. 24, No.2.
Cox, S. and Robinson-Pant, A. (2004) ‘Communication practices in primary school councils’, in Street, B. (ed.), Literacy Across Educational Contexts, Caslon Press, Philadelphia, ISBN 0-9727507-2-X, pp 43 -64.
Cox, S and Robinson-Pant, A (2005) ‘Challenging Perceptions of School Councils in the Primary School’ in Education 3-13 Vol. 33, No. 2, pp 14 - 20.
Cox, S and Robinson-Pant, A (2006) ‘Enhancing participation in primary school and class councils through visual communication’, Cambridge Journal of Education, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp 515-532.
Gordon, J. (2007) ‘ELiteracy across the Curriculum’ in Brooks, V., Abbott, I. and Bills, L. (eds) (2007) Preparing to Teach in Secondary Schools: A Student Teacher’s Guide to Professional Issues in Secondary Education, Open University Press: Milton Keynes.
Howard, L (2003) ‘DFID, Development, Literacies and Communication’, in Barton, D. and Papen, U. (eds), Linking literacy and numeracy programmes in developing countries and the UK, Literacy Research Centre, University of Lancaster
Magyar, A. (2004) ‘Learning “not to waffle!”: Making academic conventions transparent in order to facilitate student participation’. Presented at Conference proceedings ‘Discourse, Power and Resistance’ University of Plymouth.
Magyar, A. (2003) ‘Using telephone teaching to ‘scaffold’ students into academic literacy in the Open University’s Openings Programme’, SCUTREA Conference Proceedings, Bangor.
Basu, K., Maddox, B. and A. Robinson-Pant (2009) Interdisciplinary approaches to literacy and development, Routledge.
Basu, K., Maddox, B. and A. Robinson-Pant (2008) ‘Literacies, Identities and Social Change: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literacy and Development’. Journal of Development Studies, 44(6): 769-778.
Chitrakar, R. and B. Maddox (2007) ‘A community literacy project: Nepal’. In Hornberger, N. and B. Street (eds) Encyclopaedia of Language and Education. Springer, New York.
Maddox, B. (2010) ‘Marginal returns: Re-thinking mobility and educational benefit in contexts of chronic poverty’ COMPARE, Issue 40.2 (March 2010).
Maddox, B., Allison, E.H, and Daw, T.M. (2009) ‘Literacies, Education and Development in Fishing-dependent Communities. Special Issue Editorial Paper. Maritime Studies (MAST). Volume 8, No 2. pp 5-8.
Maddox, B. and Overå, R. (2009) ‘ New technologies, new demands and new literacies:
The Changing Literacy Practices of Fishing Communities in Bangladesh and Ghana’ Maritime Studies (MAST). Volume 8, No 2. pp 10-35.
Maddox, B. (2008) ‘What good is literacy? Insights and implications of the capabilities approach’, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 9(2): 185-206.
Maddox, B. (2007) ‘Secular and Koranic literacies in South Asia: From colonisation to contemporary practice’, International Journal of Educational Development, 27(6): 661-668.
Maddox, B. (2007) From models to mechanisms: Multi-disciplinary perspectives on literacy and development. Q-Squared Working Paper 36, April 2007.
Maddox, B. (2007) ‘What can ethnographic studies tell us about the consequences of literacy?’,Comparative Education, 43(2): 253-271.
Maddox, B. (2007) ‘Worlds apart? Ethnographic reflections on ‘effective literacy’ and intrahousehold externalities’, World Development, 35(3): 532-541.
Maddox, B. (2005) ‘Assessing the Impact of Women’s Literacies in Bangladesh: An Ethnographic Inquiry’, International Journal of Educational Development, 25(2): 123-132.
Maddox, B. (2005) 'Adult Literacy Country Study. Real Options for Policy and Practice in Bangladesh', Education for All Monitoring Report Commissioned Paper (see www.unesco.org/education/)
Maddox, B. (2003) 'Language Policy, Modernist Ambivalence and Social Exclusion: A Case Study of Rupendehi District in Nepal's Tarai', Studies in Nepali History and Society 8 (2) pp205-224, Dec 2003.
Maddox, B. (2001) 'Literacy and the Market: The economic uses of literacy among the peasantry in north-west Bangladesh', in B. Street (ed) Literacy and Development: Ethnographic Perspectives, London: Routledge.
Rao, N (2010 forthcoming) 'Aspiring for distinction: Gendered Educational Choices in an Indian Village'. Compare 40(2).
Rao, N. (2009) Gender differences in migration opportunities, educational choices and wellbeing outcomes. Research report, Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation & Poverty, University of Sussex.
Rao, N. and A. Robinson-Pant (2006) ‘Editorial: Gender equality in adult education’, International Journal of Educational Development, 26(2): 135-139.
Rao, N. and A. Robinson-Pant (2006) ‘Adult education and indigenous people: Addressing gender in policy and practice’, International Journal of Educational Development, 26(2): 209-223.
Rao, N. and I. Smyth (2005), eds. Partnerships for girl’s education. Oxfam, Oxford.
Rao, N. and Robinson-Pant, A. (2006) ‘Editorial: Gender equality in adult education’, Special issue of International Journal of Educational Development. 26:2, March.
Rao, N & R. Govinda (2004) ‘Evaluating Literacy Campaigns: Issues and Prospects’, in Karlekar, M (ed.). Paradigms of Learning: The Total Literacy Campaign in India, Sage, New Delhi.
Robinson-Pant, A. (2009) Changing discourses: literacy and development in Nepal’, International Journal of Educational Development
Basu, K., Maddox, B. and A. Robinson-Pant (2009, eds) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literacy and Development, Routledge: London
Robinson-Pant, A. (2009) ‘Changing Academies: exploring international PhD students’ perspectives on ‘host’ and ‘home’ universities’, Higher Education Research and Development, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp 417 - 429
Robinson-Pant, A. (2008) ‘“Why literacy matters”: exploring a policy perspective on literacy, identity and social change’, Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 44, No. 6 July
Basu, K., Maddox, B. and A. Robinson-Pant (2009) ‘Interdisciplinary approaches to literacy and development: a review of the field’, Introduction to Special Issue of Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 44, No. 6 July
Robinson-Pant, A. (2008) Women, Literacy and Development’, in Hornberger, N. (ed), The Encyclopaedia of Language and Education, Vol. 2 Literacy (2nd. Edition), Springer, Heidelburg ISBN-13: 978-0-387-32875-1
Robinson-Pant, A. (2007) ‘Literacy’, in B. Banks (ed), The Encyclopaedia of Gender and Education, Vol. 1, Praeger Publishers, Westport/London, ISBN-13: 978-0-313-33343-9
Robinson-Pant, A. (2005) ‘The Social Benefits of Literacy’, background paper for UNESCO EFA Global Monitoring Report 2006, Literacy for Life, available on: http://www.efareport.unesco.org
Robinson-Pant, A. (2005) ‘Can we transfer new ideas and approaches without falling into the trap of recipe paradigm?’ in Barton, D. and Papen, U. (eds), Linking literacy and numeracy programmes in developing countries and the UK, Literacy Research Centre, University of Lancaster.
Robinson-Pant, A. (2004) (edited volume) Women, Literacy and Development: alternative perspectives, Routledge: London, ISBN 0-415-32239-1, 259 pp.
Robinson-Pant, A. (2004) ‘‘‘The Illiterate Woman”: Changing approaches to researching women’s literacy’, in Robinson-Pant, A. (ed), Women, Literacy and Development: alternative perspectives, Routledge, London, ISBN 0-415-32239-1, pp 15 - 35.
Robinson-Pant, A. (2003) (Editor) Set of five case studies on adult education and indigenous peoples (from India, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand and Burma) in the ‘Learning Beyond Boundaries’ series, Asian and South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education (ASPBAE, Mumbai), available from: aspbae@vsnl.com
Robinson-Pant, A. (2001) ‘Women's literacy and health: can an ethnographic researcher find the links?’ in Street, B.V. (ed.), Literacy and Development: Ethnographic Perspectives, Routledge, London, ISBN 0415234506 (hbk) & 0415234514 (pbk), pp 152-170.
Robinson-Pant, A. (2001) Why eat green cucumber at the time of dying? Exploring the link between women’s literacy and development: a Nepal perspective, UNESCO Institute for Education, Hamburg, ISBN 92 820 1107-0, 198 pp. Winner of the UNESCO International Award for Literacy Research, and now published in French and Spanish. Available at: www.unesco.org/education/uie/pdf/robinson-pant
Wider Publications on Education and Development
Aikman, S. (2010 forthcoming) ‘Marching to different rhythms: International NGO collaboration with the state in Tanzania’ Development in Practice. Vol 20 No 4/5.
Aikman, S. (2010 Forthcoming) ‘Education and Indigenous Justice in Africa’ International Journal of Educational Development. Special Issue on Quality Education.
Aikman, S. (2010) Forthcoming ‘Grasping rare moments for change: children’s participation in conflict contexts’ In Cox, Dyer, Robinson-Pant and Schweisfurth (eds) Children as Decision Makers in Education, Continuum: London.
Aikman, S. (2008) edited with Elaine Unterhalter and Tania Boler HIV and AIDS and Gender: Challenges for Education (UNESCO), Oxfam: Oxford. (Introduction and conclusion)
Unterhalter, E., Boler, T and S. Aikman 2008 ‘Essentialism, equality, and empowerment: concepts of gender and schooling in the HIV and AIDS epidemic’ in Aikman et al (eds) HIV and AIDS and Gender: Challenges for Education (UNESCO), Oxfam: Oxford pp.11-32.
Aikman, S. (2007) Practising Gender Equality in Education, edited with Elaine Unterhalter. Oxfam:Oxford.
Aikman, s. (2006) ‘EFA for pastoralists in North Sudan: a mobile multigrade model of schooling. With H. El Haj. In A. Little (ed) Education for All and Multigrade Teaching.
Sanou, S. and Aikman 2005 Pastoralist Schools in Mali: gendered roles and curriculum realities. In S. Aikman and E Unterhalter (eds) Beyond Access: Transforming Policy and Practice for Gender Equality in Education, Oxford: Oxfam.
Aikman, S. (2005) ‘Partnerships from Below: Indigenous Rights and Girls Education in the Peruvian Amazon’. In N. Rao and I. Smyth, Partnerships for Girls’ Education. Oxfam, Oxford. P94-114.
Aikman, S. (2005) Beyond Access: Transforming Policy and Practice for Gender Equality in Education, edited with Elaine Unterhalter. Oxfam:Oxford.
Aikman, S. (2005) Measurement and Learning: Achievement Beyond the Mainstream, International Journal for Educational Development Special Issue, Volume 25, Issue 2, March, co-edited with R Preston.
Aikman, S. (2001) ’Multigrade Schooling in “remote” areas of Vietnam’ with P. Pridmore. International Journal of Educational Development, Vol 21:6. pp521-536.
Cox, S., Dyer, C., Robinson-Pant, A. and M. Schweisfurth (2010) Children as Decision Makers in Education, Continuum: London (edited volume)
Robinson-Pant, A. (2010) ‘Internationalisation of higher education: challenges for the doctoral supervisor’ in Thomson, P. and M. Walker (eds) The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor’s Companion: Supporting effective research in education and the social sciences, Routledge, London
Cox, S. and Robinson-Pant, A. (2010) ‘Children as researchers: a question of risk?’ in Cox et al (ed) Children as Decision Makers in Education, London, Continuum
Cox, S. and A. Robinson-Pant (2008) ‘Power, participation and decision making in the primary classroom: children as action researchers’, Educational Action Research, 16: 4, December Y
Cox, S. and A. Robinson-Pant (2006) ‘Enhancing participation in primary school and class councils through visual communication’, Cambridge Journal of Education, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp 515-532.
Cox, S. and A. Robinson-Pant (2005) ‘Challenging perceptions of school councils in the primary school’, Education 3 to 13, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp14 - 20.
Cox, S., A. Robinson-Pant et al (2006) ‘Children Decide: power, participation and purpose in the primary classroom’, CfBT Education Trust/UEA.
Cox, S., A. Robinson-Pant et al (2003) ‘Empowering Children Through Visual Communication’, CfBT/ UEA, ISBN: 0-9539983-7-1.
Gordon, J. (2006) ‘Multimedia, interactivity and learning: Some lessons from United Kingdom, in current developments in technology-assisted education’, proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Multimedia and ICT in Education, University of Seville, November 2006.
Gordon, J. (2006) ‘Learning about yourself’ in Battersby, J. and Gordon, J. (eds) Preparing to Teach: Learning from Experience, Routledge: London
Gordon, J. (2005) ‘Multimodality and learning with poetry’, International Journal of Learning 11:431-439.
Maddox, B. (2010) ‘Marginal returns: Re-thinking mobility and educational benefit in contexts of chronic poverty’ COMPARE, Issue 40.2 (March 2010)
Rao, N. and Smyth, I (eds) (2005) ‘Introduction’ in Rao, N. & I. Smyth, Partnerships For Girls' Education, Oxford: Oxfam.
Robinson-Pant, A. (2005) Cross-cultural Perspectives on Educational Research, Open University Press: Buckingham, ISBN 0-335-21457-6, 208 pp.
Robinson-Pant, A. (2004) ‘Education for women: whose values count?’ Gender and Education, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp 473 –491.
Robinson-Pant, A. (2001) ‘Development as discourse: what relevance to education?’ Compare, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp 311 – 328.
