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List of contributors

Foreword

Denny Taylor

Introduction: exploring situated literacies

Literacy practices

David Barton

Mary Hamilton

Expanding the new literacy studies: using photographs to explore literacy as social practice

Mary Hamilton

The new literacy studies and time: an exploration

Karin Tusting

There is no escape from third-space theory: borderland discourse and the `in-between' literacies of prisons

Anita Wilson

Becoming just another alphanumeric code: farmers' encounters with the literacy and discourse practices of agricultural bureaucracy at the livestock auction

Kathryn Jones

Texts in practices: interpreting the physical characteristics of children's project work

Fiona Ormerod

Roz Ivanic

Family literacy: a pedagogy for the future?

Kathy Pitt

Emergent literacy practices in an electronic community

Renata De Pourbaix

Respect and the pursuit of `symmetry' in researching literacy and student writing

Simon Pardoe

Researching literacy practices: learning from activities with teachers and students

David Barton

The New Literacy Studies: from `socially situated' to the work of the social

James Paul Gee

The New Literacy Studies: context, intertextuality and discourse

Janet Maybin

New Literacy Studies at the Interchange

Karin Tusting

Roz Ivanic

Anita Wilson

Index