LLRC Pre-Conference, May 30, 2008     Plenary      References

Areas of Interest

• Literacy and social practice
• Literacy and development issues
• Literacy and multimodality
• Family and community literacy

Research Activities

• Digital Literacy and Teacher Development in East Africa (UBC Hampton Fund with Bonny Norton)
• Systems and Networks of Knowledge Communication in Child-Headed Households in Uganda (UBC HSS Large Grant with Doris Kakuru, Makerere University, Uganda)

Recent Publications

Books
Authored
Kendrick, M.E. (2003). Play, literacy, and culture: Converging worlds. Bern: Peter Lang Publishing.

Edited
Anderson, J., Kendrick, M., Rogers, T., and Smythe, S. (Eds.) (in press). Portraits of Literacy Across Families, Communities, and Schools: Intersections and Tensions. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Journal Articles
Kendrick, M., & Jones, S., (in press). Girls' visual representations of literacy in a rural Ugandan community. Canadian Journal of Education.

Kendrick, M., & Hissani, H. (2007). Letters, Imagined communities, and Literate Identities. Journal of Literacy Research, 39 (2), 195-216.

Kendrick, M., & Mutonyi, H. (2007). Meeting the challenge of health literacy in rural Uganda: The critical role of women and local modes of communication. Journal of Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 1 (4), 265-283.

Kendrick, M., Jones, S., Mutonyi, H., & Norton, B. (2006). Multimodality and English education in Ugandan schools. English Studies in Africa, 49 (1), 94-114.

Kendrick, M. (2005). "Let’s play teacher”: A child’s perceptions of school literacy". Scientia Paedagogica Experimentalis XLI.2, 175-190.

Jones, S., Openjuru, G., Kendrick, M., & Norton, B. (2005). Local conferences, focused outcomes. Essential Teacher, 2(1), 32-34.

Kendrick, M. (2005). Playing house: A sideways glance at literacy and identity in early childhood. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 5(1), 5-28.

Kendrick, M., & McKay, R. (2004). Drawing as an alternative way of understanding young children’s constructions of literacy. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 4 (1), 109-128.

Book Chapters
Mutonyi, H., & Kendrick, M. (forthcoming). Ugandan students’ visual representation of HIV/AIDS knowledge. Applied Linguistics in the Field: Local Knowledge and HIV/AIDS. Vol. Critical Language and Literacy Studies. Ed. Christina Higgins and Bonny Norton. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Kendrick, M., & McKay, R. (2009, in press). Researching literacy with young children's drawings. In M.R. Jalongo, J. Isenberg, & B. Fennimore (Eds.), Educating the Young Child: Advances in Theory and Research, Implications for Practice (pp. 51-68). New York, NY: Springer.

Kendrick, M., Jones, S., Mutonyi, H., & Norton, B. (2009, in press). Using drawing, photography, and drama to enhance students' English language learning in Uganda. Authenticity in the Language Classroom and Beyond: Children and Adolescent Learners. Ed. Maria Dantas-Whitney. Alexandria, VA: TESOL.

Kendrick, M., Mutonyi, H., & McKay, R. (forthcoming). Drawing and Cartooning as spaces of learning: Insights from Canada, Uganda, and New Zealand. Rethinking Assessment in New Literacies. Vol. New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies Series (Lankshear, Knobel, and Peter, Eds). Ed. Anne Burke and Roberta Hammett. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

Kendrick, M., Rogers, T., Smythe, S., & Anderson, J. (2005). Portraits of literacy across families, communities, and schools: An introduction. In J. Anderson, M. Kendrick, T. Rogers, & S. Smythe, S. (Eds.), Portraits of literacy across families, communities, and schools: Intersections and tensions (pp. 1-17). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Kendrick, M., McKay, R., & Moffatt, L. (2005). The performance of self in children's drawings of home, school, and community literacies. In J. Anderson, M. Kendrick, T. Rogers, & S. Smythe, S. (Eds.), Portraits of literacy across families, communities, and schools: Intersections and tensions (pp. 185-204). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Selected Conference Papers
Kendrick, Maureen and Shelley Jones. "Literacy, gender equity, and sustainable development in Uganda". World Congress of Applied Linguistics. Madison. Jul, 2005.

Kendrick, Maureen and Hizzaya Hissani. "Women and literacy in rural Uganda: The role of letter writing". 4th Pan-African Conference on Reading for All. Ezulwini. Aug, 2005.

Kendrick, Maureen and Shelley Jones. "Multimodal representations of literacy in a rural Ugandan community". National Reading Conference. Miami. Dec, 2005.

Kendrick, Maureen. "The health literacy practices of women in a rural Ugandan community". Canadian Society for Studies in Education. London. May, 2005.

Kendrick, Maureen. "Converging worlds: Play, literacy, and culture in early childhood". 49th International Linguistic Association Conference. New York. Mar, 2004.

Kendrick, Maureen and Roberta McKay. "Drawings as windows on children’s literacy knowledge". Canadian Society for Studies in Education Conference (Language Arts Researchers in Canada). Halifax. May, 2003.

Kendrick, Maureen. "Drawing as an Alternative Mode of Representation in Literacy Learning". 3rd Pan-African Conference on Reading for All. Kampala. Jul, 2003.

Kendrick, Maureen. "The performance of gender in children’s drawings of literacy". Annual NCTE conference (Research strand). San Francisco. Nov, 2003.

Kendrick, Maureen. "Converging worlds: Play, literacy, and culture in early childhood". Canadian Association of Young Children Conference. Vancouver. Apr, 2003.

Revised: July 2008