Volume 7, Number 2
  September 2008

 
Editorial

Editorial: Recognising diversity and difference: Challenges for English/literacy
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Korina Jocson
College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amerst
Jean Conteh
School of Education, University of Leeds
pp. 1-3

Topical Articles

Writing while Black: The Colour Line, Black discourses and assessment in the institutionalization of writing instruction
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Carmen Kynard
St. John's University
Institute for Writing Studies
pp. 4-34

Untempered tongues: Teaching performance poetry for social justice
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Patrick Camangian
University of San Francisco
pp. 35-55

Conveying the “right” kind of message: Planning for the first language and culture within the primary classroom
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Geeta Ludhra
Brunel University
Deborah Jones
Brunel University
pp. 56-70

Young bilingual children learning to read with dual language books
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Raymonde Sneddon
University of East London
pp. 71-84

Digital literacies in two low socioeconomic classrooms: Snapshots of practice
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Robyn Henderson
Faculty of Education, University of Southern Queensland
Eileen Honan
University of Queensland, Australia
UQ Homepage
pp. 85-98

Parents, homework and socio-economic class: Discourses of deficit and disadvantage in the “new” South Africa
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Nadine Felix
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Jacqui Dornbrack
University of Cape Town
Eileen Scheckle
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
pp. 99-112

Diversity in family involvement in children's learning in English primary schools: Culture, language and identity
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Jean Conteh
School of Education, University of Leeds
Yasuko Kawashima

pp. 113-125

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