This paper examines literacy as a sociocultural, personal and human practice dependent on and derived through relationships between people, settings and culture. Drawing on a recent empirical research study that combines learner, teacher and author perspectives [Curtin (2023) "Reading and Writing Pathways Through Children's and Young Adult…

This paper responds to Michael Rosen's blog entries, "How Genre Theory Saved the World", arguing that genre theory in the tradition of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) has made an important contribution to language and literacy pedagogy. It emerged in the Australian context in about 1980 and was initially developed in response to…

Argues that many educationists place an unwarranted emphasis upon the social construction of masculinity and literacy and give it primacy when outlining a framework for change. Claims a literacy program, which meets the needs of all students, will acknowledge that those needs vary greatly within gender groupings as well as across these groupings.…