18 January 2024, 16:00-17:00
Join this discussion in person at the University of East Anglia. Location: LSB Room 1.40.
Having emerged in the 1980s, sociocultural and practice-based approaches to literacy, also known as New Literacy Studies (NLS), are an established research field. And yet this impressive body of work has had little impact on policy. This presentation explores possible reasons, focusing on literacy in primary schools in England.
Uta Papen is Professor of Literacy Studies in the Department of Linguistics and English language at Lancaster University. She is co-director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre. Her research interests are: literacy studies, literacy education for children, adult literacy policy and practice, linguistic landscape research, ethnography and action research.