Professor
Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED)
Dr. Kendrick’s research focuses on literacy and multimodality as social practice, family and community literacy, literacy and international development, and digital literacies. She has written widely on literacy and multimodality in diverse contexts, with a particular focus on East Africa. Currently, she is researching the affordances and limitations of multimodal pedagogies (e.g., digital literacy practices) for multilingual learners in Canadian classrooms.
Contributions:
Kendrick, M., & McKay, R. (2004). Uncovering literacy narratives through children’s drawings: An illustrative example. Canadian Journal of Education, 27(1), 45-60.
Kendrick, M., Early, M., & Chemjor, W. (2013). Integrated Literacies in a Rural Kenyan Girls’ Secondary School Journalism Club. Research in the Teaching of English. (Special issue on writing in international contexts), 47(4), 391-419. [article received the NCTE 2013 Alan C. Purves Award]
Mutonyi, H., & Kendrick, M. (2011). Cartoon Drawing as a Means of Accessing What Students Know About HIV/AIDS: An Alternative Method.Visual Communication Journal, 10(2), 231-249.
Kendrick, M., & Kakuru, D. (2012). Funds of Knowledge in Child-Headed Households: A Ugandan Case Study. Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research, 19(3), 397-413. [Special issue: Children’s Interethnic Relations: Beyond Institutional Contexts].
Kendrick, M., Chemjor, W., & Early, M. (2012). ICTs as placed resources in a rural Kenyan secondary school journalism club. Language & Education, 26(4), 297-313.
Keywords:
Multimodality; Literacy practices; Community literacy; Family literacy; Multiple literacies; Literacy and international development.
maureen.kendrick@ubc.ca
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