Publications

2012
Lefstein, A. . (2012). Some interpretive and representational dilemmas in a linguistic ethnographic analysis: Moving from" interesting data" to publishable research article.
Lefstein, A. . (2012). The great literacy debate as makeover television: Notes on genre proliferation. In The great literacy debate (pp. 136–156). Routledge.
2011
Lefstein, A., & Snell, J. . (2011). Professional vision and the politics of teacher learning. Teaching and teacher education, 27, 505–514. Elsevier.
Lefstein, A. . (2011). Computer-assisted systematic observation of classroom discourse & interaction:: Technical report on the systematic discourse analysis component of the Towards Dialogue study.
Lefstein, A., & Snell, J. . (2011). 13 Classroom discourse: the promise and complexity of dialogic practice. Applied linguistics and primary school teaching, 165. Cambridge University Press.
Lefstein, A., & Snell, J. . (2011). Promises and problems of teaching with popular culture: A linguistic ethnographic analysis of discourse genre mixing in a literacy lesson. Reading Research Quarterly, 46, 40–69. Wiley Online Library.
Harris, R., Lefstein, A., Leung, C., & Rampton, B. . (2011). Urban classroom culture:: Realities, dilemmas, responses. Centre for Language, Discourse Communication, King's College London.
2010
Lefstein, A. . (2010). Problematising researcher–respondent relations through an exploration of communicative stance. Ethnography and Education, 5, 81–96. Taylor & Francis.
Rampton, B., Lefstein, A., & Bezemer, J. . (2010). Linguistic ethnography illustrative analysis.
Lefstein, A. . (2010). More helpful as problem than solution: Some implications of situating dialogue in classrooms. In Educational dialogues (pp. 182–203). Routledge.
2009
Lefstein, A. . (2009). Rhetorical grammar and the grammar of schooling: Teaching “powerful verbs” in the English National Literacy Strategy. Linguistics and Education, 20, 378–400. Elsevier.
2008
Lefstein, A. . (2008). Literacy makeover: Educational research and the public interest on prime time. Teachers College Record, 110, 1115–1146. SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA.
Lefstein, A. . (2008). Changing classroom practice through the English National Literacy Strategy: A micro-interactional perspective. American Educational Research Journal, 45, 701–737. SAGE Publications Sage CA: Thousand Oaks, CA.
Lefstein, A. . (2008). Rituals of order, blame & redemption:: Coping with failing in a working class school.
2007
Street, B. R. I. A. N., Lefstein, A., & Pahl, K. A. T. E. . (2007). The National Literacy Strategy in England:: contradictions of control and creativity. In Literacy as snake oil: Beyond the quick fix (pp. 123–154). Peter Lang Publishing Group.
Street, B. V., & Lefstein, A. . (2007). Literacy: An advanced resource book for students. Routledge.
2006
Lefstein, A. . (2006). Dialogue in schools:: Towards a pragmatic approach.
2005
Lefstein, A. . (2005). Thinking about the technical and the personal in teaching. Cambridge Journal of Education, 35, 333–356. Taylor & Francis.
2003
Rampton, B., Collins, J., Harris, R., Leung, C., Tremlett, A., Lytra, V., & Lefstein, A. . (2003). Language and the construction of identities in contemporary Europe: Notes towards a research programme.
2002
Lefstein, A. . (2002). Thinking power and pedagogy apart—Coping with discipline in progressivist school reform. Teachers College Record, 104, 1627–1655. SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA.