David Barton, Mary Hamilton and Roz Ivanic are all based at Lancaster University. David Barton is the Literacies series editor and has previously collaborated with Mary Hamilton on Local Literacies (1998) Roz Ivanic is the co-author of The Politics of Writing (1997)

'This is an up-to-date collection of research-based articles on the social, communicative activities of reading and writing, edited by three of the people who have put Lancaster University on the international map as a centre for original and interesting literacy research ... and the overall flavour of the book is of a collection which is genuinely based on a shared conception of the topic of research and the theoretical concepts which are used for making sense of it.' - Neil Mercer, British Educational Research Journal

• List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Foreword by Denny Taylor, Introduction: exploring situated literacies, 1 Literacy practices, 2 Expanding the new literacy studies: using photographs to explore literacy as social practice, 3 The new literacy studies and time: an exploration, 4 There is no escape from third-space theory: borderland discourse and the ‘in-between’ literacies of prisons, 5 Becoming just another alphanumeric code: farmers’ encounters with the literacy and discourse practices of agricultural bureaucracy at the livestock auction, 6 Texts in practices: interpreting the physical characteristics of children’s project work, 7 Family literacy: a pedagogy for the future?, 8 Emergent literacy practices in an electronic community, 9 Respect and the pursuit of ‘symmetry’ in researching literacy and student writing, 10 Researching literacy practices: learning from activities with teachers and students, 11 The New Literacy Studies: from ‘socially situated’ to the work of the social, 12 The New Literacy Studies: context, intertextuality and discourse, 13 New Literacy Studies at the Interchange, Index

David Barton, Mary Hamilton and Roz Ivanic are all based at Lancaster University. David Barton is the Literacies series editor and has previously collaborated with Mary Hamilton on Local Literacies (1998) Roz Ivanic is the co-author of The Politics of Writing (1997)

'This is an up-to-date collection of research-based articles on the social, communicative activities of reading and writing, edited by three of the people who have put Lancaster University on the international map as a centre for original and interesting literacy research ... and the overall flavour of the book is of a collection which is genuinely based on a shared conception of the topic of research and the theoretical concepts which are used for making sense of it.' - Neil Mercer, British Educational Research Journal

• List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Foreword by Denny Taylor, Introduction: exploring situated literacies, 1 Literacy practices, 2 Expanding the new literacy studies: using photographs to explore literacy as social practice, 3 The new literacy studies and time: an exploration, 4 There is no escape from third-space theory: borderland discourse and the ‘in-between’ literacies of prisons, 5 Becoming just another alphanumeric code: farmers’ encounters with the literacy and discourse practices of agricultural bureaucracy at the livestock auction, 6 Texts in practices: interpreting the physical characteristics of children’s project work, 7 Family literacy: a pedagogy for the future?, 8 Emergent literacy practices in an electronic community, 9 Respect and the pursuit of ‘symmetry’ in researching literacy and student writing, 10 Researching literacy practices: learning from activities with teachers and students, 11 The New Literacy Studies: from ‘socially situated’ to the work of the social, 12 The New Literacy Studies: context, intertextuality and discourse, 13 New Literacy Studies at the Interchange, Index