Tables of contents

Interactions

Partnerships. Pedagogy. Practice. PD opportunities – 2005 and beyond

     Linda Twitchett

3

Liblogs – a response

     Lisa Hill

4 

Perspectives: local

What can schools do? Knowledge, social identities and the changing world

     Professor Lyn Yates

5

Libraries, learning and LAMS

     Donna Gibbs and Robyn Philip

9

Perspectives: global

Research as play

     Dr Margaret Mackey

12

Research

Student learning through Australian school libraries (part 1): A statistical analysis of student perceptions

     Lyn Hay

17

Improving student learning outcomes: a case study of Northcote High School

     Pam Mancell

33

A study of action research: a three-dimensional model

     Dr Carol Gordon

36 

Strategies

Developing a graphic novel collection

     Di Laycock

50

The mandala as a teaching tool

     Margaret Catterall

55 

Ink into image: reading the screen, reading the lines

     Gary Simmons

57 

Reviews

Conflict management for libraries: strategies for a positive, productive workplace

The advanced internet searcher's handbook

Information literacy in action

Using technology in teaching 

65

The information literate school community 2: issues of leadership

67

Researching together: engaging minds

Editorial

The structure of educational research

Charles Clark

289

Combining multilevel analysis with national value-added data sets: a case study to explore the effects of school diversity

Ian Schagen and Sandie Schagen

309

Working on arithmetic word problems when English is an additional language

Richard Barwell

329

'Do you ride elephants' and 'never tell them that you're German': the experiences of British Asian and black, and overseas student teachers in South-east England

Mike Cole and Janet S Stuart

349

Thinking skills framework for use in education and training 

David Moseley, Julian Elliott, Maggie Gregson and Steve Higgins

367

Thematic review

Promoting happiness, respecting differences? New perspectives on the politics and sociology of education in liberal democracy 

Pieter Vanhuysse and Clara Sabbagh

391

Book reviews

405

Editorial

Alison Lee

1

Articles

Practitioner-research as learning: exploring situated knowledges of adult literacy educators

Sue Shore

5

The good mother: exploring mothering discourses in family literacy texts

Suzanne Smyther and Janet Isserlis

23

New discourses, new identities: a study of writing and learning in adult literacy education

Amy Burgess

41

Practical identities, rurality and skills for life: employers' perspectives and interest in adult literacy and numeracy in small businesses in rural Lincolnshire and Rutland, England

Chris Atkin and Paul Merchant

63

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

85

Book reviews

Literacies: Researching practice, practising research

Reviewed by Jan Searle

99

Conflicting paradigms in adult literacy education: in quest of a US democratic politics of literacy  by George Demetrion

Reviewed by Jay Derrick

101

From 'middle class' to 'trailer trash': teachers' perceptions of white students in a predominantly minority school

Edward W Morris

99

High school exit examinations and high school dropout in Texas and Florida, 1971–2000

John Robert Warren and Krista N Jenkins

122

Maternal cohabitation and educational success 

R Kelly Raley, Michelle L Frisco and Elizabeth Wildsmith

144

Perspectives on critical issues

No Child Left Behind? Sociology ignored! 

David Karen

165

The No Child Left Behind Act: accountability, high-stakes testing and roles for sociologists

A Gary Dworkin

170

The problem of unqualified teachers: a sociological perspective

Richard M Ingersoll

175

Attainable goals? The spirit and letter of the No Child Left Behind Act on parental involvement

Joyce L Epstein

179