Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles from June 2007

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy archives from June 2007

Editorial introduction.(Editorial)
June 1, 2007... This Volume 30, Number 2 of AJLL is titled Literacy, Place, Environment: A Special (Forever) Issue, and is the first of several 'themed' issues that have been proposed to us. This issue was coordinated by Phil Cormack from the Centre for...

Introduction: literacy, place, environment.(Report)
June 1, 2007... Literacy studies have increasingly been drawn in recent times to the concept of place as a new organising principle for practice and for pedagogy. This has been linked to what has been variously formulated as 'place-based education' and...

Writing place in English: how a school subject constitutes children's relations to the environment.(Report)
June 1, 2007... This paper considers the discourses inscribed by children when they write and communicate about the environment, as exemplified in the anthology of students' writing and artwork produced annually by Special Forever. The paper begins by...

Expanding the semiotic repertoire: environmental communications in the primary school.(Report)
June 1, 2007... This paper draws on a three-year research project about environmental communications in the primary school undertaken by university researchers in collaboration with sponsors of the Special Forever environmental communications program, the...

Literacy and environmental communications: towards a 'pedagogy of responsibility'.(Report)
June 1, 2007... In this paper I take up the challenge framed by Martusewicz and Edmundson (2005) and ask whether teachers in primary school classrooms can work to produce a sustainable community through pedagogical practice that links literacy and the...

Literacy, places and identity: the complexity of teaching environmental communications.(Report)
June 1, 2007... In this article we explore the relationship between literacy, place, and teacher identity as they intersect around Special Forever, a professional learning program with a focus on environmental communications and place based education. Teachers...

Place literacies.(significance of space to teaching)(Report)
June 1, 2007... In this paper I will explore the application of a place pedagogies framework to the development of new place literacies. The framework of place pedagogies has evolved from my long-term research about relationship to place, especially...