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Most back issues of Literacy and Numeracy Studies and Open Letter are available by contacting Hermine.Scheeres@uts.edu.au

Volume 15 Number 1 2007

Editorial
JEAN SEARLE

ARTICLES

Researching Literacy and Numeracy Costs and Benefits:
What is possible
ROBYN HARTLEY and JACKIE HORNE5

Mathematics for Maths Anxious Tertiary Students: Integrating the cognitive and affective domains using interactive multimedia
JANET TAYLOR and LINDA GALLIGAN23

Flexible Mathematical Understanding in an Ironworking Apprenticeship Classroom
LYNDON MARTIN, LIONEL LaCROIX and LYNDA FOWNES45

Intuitive Mathematical Knowledge as an Essential Aspect of Contemporary Adult Learning: A case of women street vendors in the city of Gaborone
REBECCA NTHOGO LEKOKO and KGOMOTSO GETRUDE GAREGAE61

Horatio Alger and the GED (General Education Development) Diploma: Narratives of success in adult literacy education
JENNIFER A SANDLIN

REVIEWS

Academic Culture: A students’ guide to studying at university
by Jean Brick
Reviewed by MARIA SIMMS97

Volume 14 Number 2 2005

David Mallows and Katerina Ananiadou (Guest Editors)
National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC), London

Editorial

JOHN VORHAUS

ARTICLES

Measuring Basic Skills for Longitudinal Study: The design and develoment of instruments for use with cohort members in the age 34 follow-up in the British Cohort Study (BCS70)
SAMANTHA PARSONS and JOHN BYNNER

Improving the Initial Teacher Education of Adult Literacy and Numeracy Teachers in England: Issues and challenges
NORMAN LUCAS

Improving the Literacy and Numeracy Skills of Young People Who Offend: Can it be done and what are the consequences?
JANE HURRY, LAURA BRAZIER and VIV MORIARTY

Observing ICT use in Adult Literacy, Numeracy and Language Classrooms
HARVEY MELLAR and MARIA KAMBOURI

Assessing Low Levels of Literacy: IVQ survey 2004-5 – Focus on the ANLCI Module
JEAN-PIERRE JEANTHEAU

REFRACTIONS

When the Magic of Literacy Wears Thin
DAVID BARTON

REVIEWS

NRDC Three Years On: A synthesis – Generating Knowledge and Transforming It Into Practice, Three Years On: What the research is saying
Reviewed by BARRY BROOKS

Beyond the Daily Application: Making numeracy teaching meaningful to adult learners by John Swain
Reviewed by PENNY JANE BURKE

Research Review: Adult literacy and numeracy interventions and outcomes: a review of controlled trials
Reviewed by ALISON SMITH

Volume 14 Number 1 2005

Editorial

ALISON LEE

ARTICLES

Changes to Adult Learners’ Identities Through Learning Numeracy
JON SWAIN

Using ICT in Adult Literacy Education: Guidleines for reform
ILANA SNYDER, ANNE JONES AND JOSEPH LO BIANCO

Educating Parents: The EvenStart financial literacy program
ANDREW CHODKIEWICZ, BETTY JOHNSTON
AND KEIKO YASUKAWA

Adult Education Instructional Environments and Interaction Patterens Between Teachers and Students: An ecobehavioural assessment
DARYL MELLARD, DAVID SCANLON, BRENDA KISSAM AND KARI WOODS

REFRACTIONS

Information Literacy Makes all the Wrong Assumptions
STANLEY WILDER

REVIEWS

The Adult Literacy Handbook: Reframing adult numeracy in Australia by Sheilagh Kelly with Betty Johnston and Keiko Yasukawa
REVIEWED BY DIANA COBEN

Volume 13 Number 2 2004

 EDITORIAL

 ALISON LEE

 ARTICLES 

Practioner-Research as Learning: Exploring situated knowledges of adult literacy educators SUE SHORE

The Good Mother: Exploring mothering discourses in family literacy texts
SUZANNE SMYTHE AND JANET ISSERLIS

New Discourses, New Identities: A study of writing and learning in adult literacy education
AMY BURGESS

Practical Identities, Rurality and Skills for Life: Employers' perspectives and interest in adult literacy and numeracy training in small businesses in rural Licolnshire and Rutland, England
CHRIS ATKIN AND PAUL MERCHANT

There's More Than Just the Newspaper: A pilot study on the social literacies required by young job seekers
ELIZABETH REID BOYD AND PAMELA WEATHERILL

 BOOK REVIEWS

Literacies: Researching practice, practising research
Reviewed by JEAN SEARLE

Conflicting Paradigms in Adult Literacy Education: In Quest of a US Democratic Politics of Literacy by George Demetrion
Reviewed by JAY DERRICK

Volume 13 Number 1 2004

JEAN SEARLE (Guest Editor)

Editorial
JEAN SEARLE

ARTICLES

Whose Economic Wellbeing? A challenge to dominant discourses on the relationship between literacy/numeracy skills and (un)employment (pdf)
STEPHEN BLACK

Literacy in the World of the Aged Care Worker (pdf)
LINDA WYSE   and NADIA CASAROTTO

Literacy, Numeracy and Employability: Evidence from the British cohort studies (pdf)
JOHN BYNNER

‘Learnin' 'Em Their Letters' – Researching professional practice and the stories we live (pdf)
PETER WATERHOUSE

Health and Literacy: Perspectives (pdf)
LINDA SHOHET

REFRACTIONS

‘Make Your Own Way There': An agenda for young people in the modern labour market (pdf)
JOHN SPIERINGS

Volume 12 Number 2 2003

ARTICLES

Developing Academic Literacy in Economics in a South African University
MORAGH PAXTON

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literacy in Higher Education: Emerging linguistic evidence
IAN MALCOLM AND JUDITH ROCHECOUSTE

Impact of Literacy and Numeracy Training on Job Seekers
ZAKIR RAHMANI AND TIMOTHY CROSIER

Using Engeström’s Expansive Learning Framework to Analyse a Case Study in Adult Mathematics Education
GAIL FITZSIMONS

Fear of Mathematics in Adults: Moving from insights to thoughtful enactive practice
CHRIS BREEN

Correction

Changing Forms of Language and Literacy: Technobabble and mobile phone communication in Hong Kong
ADAMS BODOMO AND CARMEN LEE

REFRACTIONS

What Counts as Evidence? Impressions of the first conference of the UK National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC)
BETTY JOHNSTON

REVIEWS

The Give and Take of Writing: Scribes, literacy and everyday life
By Jane Mace
PAT HAZELL

Reading and Adult English Learners: A review of the research
By Miriam Burt, Joy Kreeft Peyton and Rebecca Adams
HELEN DE SILVA JOYCE

What Counts as Mathematics? Technologies of power in adult and vocational education
By Gail FitzSimons
JANET TAYLOR

Volume 12 Number 1 2002

Contents

EDITORIAL

HERMINE SCHEERES and ROSIE WICKERT

ARTICLES

In Defence of Personal and Sociocultural Readings of ‘Literature’
GREER CAVALLARO JOHNSON

Changing Forms of Language and Literacy: Technobabble and mobile phone communication in Hong Kong
ADAMS BODOMO AND CARMEN LEE

Assisting Nursing Students Solve Drug Calculation Problems Using Metacognition and Error Analysis
LINDA GALLIGAN and ROBYN PIGOZZO

Advanced Mathematical Discourse: A case study
GILLIAN PERRETT, LEIGH WOOD AND GEOFFREY SMITH

REFRACTIONS

So Wot RU W8ting 4? GOWI (Get On With It)! The medium is the message
DI DELL

Numeracy and Novels – Reading Ruth Park’s Playing Beattie Bow and Ibsen’s A Doll’s House – Warning: mathematics ahead!
JOHN GOUGH

REVIEWS

Academic Writing Is … A guide to writing in a university context
By Terri Morley-Warner
SHEILAGH KELLY

City Literacies: Learning to read across generations and cultures
By Eve Gregory and Ann Williams
ROSIE WICKERT

Volume 11 Number 2 2002

Betty Johnston, Gail FitzSimons, Juergen Maasz and Keiko Yasukawa (Guest Editors)

Preface

Juergen Maasz

Editorial

Betty Johnston, Gail FitzSimons, Juergen Maasz and Keiko Yasukawa

Articles

Literacy Approaches in the Numeracy Classroom
Alison Tomlin

Use Value and Exchange Value in Discursive Domains of Adult Numeracy Teaching
Diana Coben

The Concept of 'Bildung' and Goals of Numeracy Teaching
Lene Johansen

Dispositional Aspects of Coping with Interpretive Numeracy Tasks
Iddo Gal

"Mathematics – That's what I can't do': People's affective and social relationship with mathematics
Tine Wedege

Developing Research Conceptions of Emotion Among Adult Learners of Mathematics
Jeff Evans

Recounting Mathematical Experiences: Emotions in mathematical learning
Christine Ingleton and Kerry O'Regan

Adults Studying Pure Mathematics in Adult Tertiary Preparation
Anne Bennison

Refractions

A Project-Based Approach to Numeracy Practices at University Focusing on HIV/AIDS
Arlene Archer, Vera Frith and Robert Prince

Volume 11 Number 1 2001

Editorial

HERMINE SCHEERES and ROSIE WICKERT

Articles

Wanted: A new national adult literacy policy for Australia
GERALDINE CASTLETON, JILL SANGUINETTI AND IAN FALK

Constructing Literacies in the New Work Order
JEAN SEARLE

The Workplace English Language and Literacy Program in Tasmania
PAT MILLAR

Youth at Risk: Is technology the answer?
JENNY MCGUIRK

Refractions

Tell Someone Who Cares
PATRICK GURR

Reviews

Multilingual Literacies: Reading and writing different worlds
STEPHEN BLACK

Powerful Literacies
ROSIE WICKERT

Volume 10 Number 1 & 2 2000

Editorial

ROSIE WICKERT and HERMINE SCHEERES

Articles

Writing-up People at Work: Investigations of workplace literacy
NANCY JACKSON

Writing Up/Writing Down: Literate practices in a mental health boarding home
KATHRYN ALEXANDER

Identifying Literacy Demands of Adult Numeracy
ROBYN ZEVENBERGEN

Talking Volumes: Enhancing talk, language and conceptual development in adult mathematics and numeracy classes
BETH MARR

Looking for Space to Change - Reflections from a numeracy practice
CATHERINE LEUNG

Refractions

The Literate ‘Illiterates’ of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa: An empirical account
HAMILTON WILLIAMS

Beyond Literacy: Education for empowerment
LAKSHMI NARAYAN and POORNIMA CHIKARMANE

The Other Women: Students of literature in Spain
LÍDIA PUIGVERT

The Lighthouse Literacy Project: The Rotary campaign to assist literacy development across the globe
RICHARD WALKER

Refractions

Professional Development Collection
ROSIE WICKERT

Volume 9 Number 2 1999

Articles

Online Literacies at Work
JEAN SEARLE

Calculating People: Measurement as a social process
BETTY JOHNSTON

A Semiotic Approach to Teaching Media Literacy to English Language Learners
MARY JANE CURRY

Literacies Across the Lifespan: Health literacy
DON NUTBEAM

Health Literacy and Social Practice: Response to Nutbeam
PETER FREEBODY and JILL FREIBERG

Volume 9 Number 1 1999

Editorial

HERMINE SCHEERES and ROSIE WICKERT

Articles

Reconstructing Sally: Narratives and counternarratives around work, education and workplace restructure
LESLEY FARRELL

Restructured Work, Restructured Worker
HERMINE SCHEERES

Dialogue Theory as a Tool for Understanding Interactive Learning Processes
OLGA DYSTHE

Literacy Narratives of Crisis and Blame
BARBARA KAMLER

Refractions

‘But I’m not a therapist’: Furthering discussion about literacy work with survivors of trauma
JENNY HORSMAN

Volume 8 Number 2 1998

Editorial

HERMINE SCHEERES

Articles

Exploring Co-production in Academic Literacy Development
KATHERINE GORDON and ALISON LEE

Literacy, Metaphor and Words at Work: Maintaining particular constructions of literacy
GERALDINE CASTLETON

Personal Transformation in Adult Literacy: The hidden spaces
BEVERLEY CAMPBELL

Maths and Mothers
MARGARET CARMODY

Refractions

Living with the Literacy Line: A Response to Peter Freebody
CATHERINE KELL

Hobbesian Fears and Galilean Struggles: Response to Peter Freebody: ‘Assessment as Communal versus Punitive Practice: Six new literacy crises’
BRIAN STREET

Review Essay

Sustainable Literacies
ALASTAIR PENNYCOOK

Refractions

Constructing Critical Literacies: Teaching and learning textual practices,

Muspratt, Luke & Freebody

RaPAL Bulletin

Volume 8 Number 1 1998

Editorial

BETTY JOHNSTON and KEIKO YASUKAWA

Prologue

KEIKO YASUKAWA

Dismantling the Altar of Mathematics: A case study of the change from victim to actor in mathematics learning
VICKY WEBBER

Desirable Calculators: Women, money and power
SALLIE SAUNDERS and JANE SAMPSON

Numeracy as Social Practice
DAVE BAKER

‘Invention Within Limits’: Numeracy practices of young unemployed people
MIKE BAYNHAM and BETTY JOHNSTON

Contextualising Numeracy: Abstract tools at the coal face
ANNABELLE LUKIN

Generic Numeracies of the Shop Floor: A numeracy for decision-making
ELIZABETH BUCKINGHAM

A Framework For Academic Numeracy
ANNE CHAPMAN

Volume 7 Number 2 1997

Editorial

ALISON LEE and ROSIE WICKERT

Articles

Assessment as Communal Versus Punitive Practice: Six new literacy crises for Australia
PETER FREEBODY

Towards an Understanding of the Policy Framework Shaping Adult Literacy in Australia
JOSEPH LO BIANCO

The Role of Volunteer Tutors in Meeting Needs and Developing Formal Adult Literacy Provision: A study of one history – Queensland
JEAN SEARLE

Struggling with Academic Language: Tertiary literacy
JOSEPHINE RYAN

Working Together? Academic Literacies, co-production and professional partnerships
ALISON LEE

Literacy on the Ground: A located perspective on literacy policy in South Africa
MASTIN PRINSLOO and CATHERINE KELL

Volume 7 Number 1 1997

Editorial
ALISON LEE

Articles

Language, Difference and Identity:Three perspectives
CATE POYNTON

Researching in Adult and Community Education: A troubled task
MARIE BRENNAN

Inventing Individual Identity in the Australian Language and Literacy Policy
HELEN BEAZLEY

Re-visioning Deafness: Supporting literacy in Auslan
CONSTANCE ELLWOOD

Workplace Literacy and Power: Preliminary investigations
MARGARET SOMMERVILLE

Refractions

OPEN LETTER: AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL FOR ADULT LITERACY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Volume 6 Number 2 1996

Editorial

ROSIE WICKERT

Literacy and Power?
BRIAN STREET

I Site
LINDA BRODKEY

Cultural Influences on Academic Literacy: A case study
CAROLINE SAN MIGUEL

Putting on a Performance
DELIA BRADSHAW

Organising Professional Development in ALBE: A case study
DARYL EVANS, HELEN JENKINS & JOHN WILSON

Volume 6 Number 1 1995

Editorial
LESLEY FARRELL, ALLAN LUKE, SUE SHORE & WENDY WARING

Is Personal Writing Empowering? Developing critical writing practices in
adult education
BARBARA KAMLER

Literacy as Hegemony
STEPHEN BLACK

‘Adult Literacy’ in Remote Aboriginal Communities: Not what it seems
SUE MCGINTY

Creating an Emancipatory Discourse
CATHIE MURRAY

Language Practices in Deaf Education: How ideology shapes individual lives
MIRA-LISA KATZ

Volume 5 Number 2 1995

NESB Workers’ Literacies-A health and safety issue
CLAIRE WYATT-SMITH & GERALDINE CASTLETON

A Common Business Language: Cross-cultural communication in Fiji’s factories
ADELE JONES & YILIANG JIANG

Tertiary Literacy: A constructivist perspective
CATHERINE MCLOUGHLIN

Are They Really So Different” The ‘Chinese’ genre of university entrance essays
ANDY KIRKPATRICK

Volume 5 Number 1 1994

Editorial
IAN REID

Changing Contexts - New debates: ALBE in the 1990s
TERRI SEDDON

Integrating Communication and Skills Training
ROBERT BEAN

Exploring the Discourses of Our Own Practice: A case study
JILL SANGUINETTI

What do Workplace Trainers Know and Need to Know About Litracy?
MARION MILTON

Deconstructing Adult Literacy Teaching
ALISON LEE & ROSIE WICKERT

Volume 4 Number 2 1994

Editorial
WENDY WARING

Vocational Education and the Struggle for Critical Literacy and Feminist Reform

NICOLE GILDING

How Adult Literacy Became a Public Issue in Australia
JOHN HODGENS

Investigating the Pedagogical Relations between the Fields of Adult Literacy and Communication
ANNE BURNS, KRISTINE BROWN AND DIANNE PRINCE

Chinese Learners of English: A different view of literacy?
ALEX MCKNIGHT

Teaching Critical Literacy: Teaching tensions and professional
development responsibilities
SUE SHORE

Volume 4 Number 1 1993

Editorial
IAN REID

Identity and the Acquisition of Academic Literacy: A case study
HELEN MCDONALD

Teaching Critical Literacy: Some professional development issues
SUE SHORE

Adult Literacy in the Rehabilitation Process: Issues across the systems
KRISTINA LOVE, LIBBY CLARK, JAN RYAN AND ANTHONY LOVE

Write Me In: Improving women’s access to literacy training
HELEN MCDONALD

This Leads to That: A model for literayc and numeracy integration in a ABE class
SUE HELME AND RUTH GODDARD

Volume 3 Number 2 1993

Editorial

IAN REID

Shaping Policy for Professional Development
JOSEPH LO BIANCO

Pedagogical Relations between ESL and Adult Literacy - Directions for research
JENNY HAMMOND AND ROSIE WICKERT

They’re More Literate Than We Think
ED BURKE

Adult Literacy and the Fourth Sector
BARRIE BRENNAN

‘Fall Out the Illiterates’ - Lessons from a World War II adult literacy program
DARRYL DYMOCK

Index for Volumes One, Two and Three

Volume 3 Number 1 1992

Editorial
IAN REID

Literacy and Work in ‘New Times’
ALLAN LUKE

Recognising Diversity: Literary education for deaf and hearing impaired adults
GREGORY LEIGH

ESLLiterary Needs of Long-term Resident Turkish Women

BALA MUDULY

Teaching with Freire in Australia: Some questions and lessons
JILL SANGUINETTI

Clarence’s Battle with Bingo Authorities
LYN DAWS

Creating a Comprehensive Workplace Education Service
ROBERT BEAN

Volume 2 Number 2 1991

Editorial

IAN REID

Literacy in TESOL and ABE: Exploring common themes

MIKE BAYNHAM

The Future of Literacy
SUSAN MAUSHART

Planning for Adult Literacy in the South Pacific

ADELE JONES

Adults Using Literacy: Contexts and agendas for research
AUDREY GRANT

The Riddle of Needs-based Learning in Adult Literacy: Should we give them what they need?
IAN FALK

REVIEW – Who What, Where, When Why and How: ABE in Australia
WENDY WARING

Volume 2 Number 1 1991

Editorial
IAN REID

Literacy and Prisoners: Reassessing popular perceptions
STEPHEN BLACK

Promoting Bilingual Literacy for Adults: Why and how
MARTA RADO AND LOIS FOSTER

Communication at Work: An ethnography of checkout operators
JEAN SEARLE

Maintaining Power Over the Literacy Agenda
ROSIE WICKERT

AMEP Policy and the Needs of Long-Term NESB Residents
DON PILMER

Plain English in TAFE: The whole process
KATHY SALTER

Volume 1 Number 2 1990

Editorial
IAN REID

Broadening our Concept of Workplace Literacy
BERT MORRIS AND IRENE S BROWN

Literacy Skills of the Intellectually Disabled
MARGARET E FARRELL

Translating Text into Plain English: The cost of increased readability
MAURICE NEVILE

Migrant Women and Language Learning
MARGARET GRIFFITH

Some Effects of Migrant Education Policies
LYNNE KNIGHT

Literacy Skills and Empowerment in Older People
JENNY HUDSON

Using Comics to Reach People with Low Literacy
PRUE BORTHWICK

Volume 1 Number 1 1990

Foreward
NOEL SIMPSON

Editorial
IAN REID

Putting Literacies on the Political Agenda
BRIAN STREET

Response to Street
ROSIE WICKERT

Workforce Perceptions of Literacy and Multi-Skilling Issues
PETER LONG

Response to Long
TRICIA CASWELL

Evaluating the Potential of Technology in Adult Literacy Programs
JONATHAN ANDERSON

Response to Anderson
AILEEN TRELOAR

Outcomes of Literacy Programs: Leaners’ perspectives
BARRIE BRENNAN

Response to Brennan
SHARON COATES

Developing Competency Rating Scales in Adult Literacy: An analytical approach
PATRICK GRIFFIN, ROSEMARY JEWELL, ANNE FORWOOD, ROBYN FRANCIS

Response to Griffith et al.
GRAEME WITHERS