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 (last 5 years)

Books
Authored
Kendrick, M. (2003). Converging worlds: Play, literacy, and culture in early childhood. Bern/New York: Peter Lang.

Edited
Anderson, J., Kendrick, M., Rogers, T., & 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. (2008). Girls' visual representations of literacy in a rural Ugandan community. Canadian Journal of Education, 31(2), 371-403. Available online: http://www.csse.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE31-2/CJE31-2-kendrick&jones.pdf.

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.

Kendrick, M., & McKay, R. (2003). Revisiting children's images of literacy. Language and Literacy, 5(1), 1-17. http://www.langandlit.ualberta.ca/archives/vol51papers/0304_ken_mck/index.htm

Kendrick, M., & McKay, R. (2002). Uncovering literacy narratives through children's drawings: An illustrative example. Canadian Journal of Education, 27(1), 45-60.

Book Chapters
Kendrick, M.E., McKay, R.A., & Mutonyi, H. (forthcoming). Making the invisible visible: Assessing the visual as spaces of learning. In R. Hammett & A. Burke (Eds.), Assessing New Literacies: Perspectives from the Classroom. New York, NY: Peter Lang.

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.A. (2009). Researching literacy with young children's drawings. In M. Narey (Ed.), Making meaning: Constructing Multimodal Perspectives of Language, Literacy, and Learning through Arts-Based Early Childhood Education.

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.

Revised: January 2009