Carolyn McKinney

Selected publications

• McKinney, C. and Swann, J. 2001: “Developing a sociolinguistic voice? Students and linguistic descriptivism”, Journal of Sociolinguistics, 5:4, pp576-590 Blackwells.

• Lillis, T. and McKinney, C. 2003: Analysing language in context, Trentham Books: Stoke on Trent, England

• M. Nkomo, C. McKinney & L.Chisholm (Eds) 2004: Reflections on School Integration Colloquium Proceedings HSRC Press, Cape Town. (downloadable from HSRC press)

• McKinney, C. 2005: Textbooks for diverse learners? A critical analysis of Learning Support Materials in South Africa HSRC Press, Cape Town. (downloadable from HSRC press)

• McKinney, C and van Pletzen, E. 2004: ‘this apartheid story . . . we’ve decided it’s gone we’ve finished with it’: student responses to ‘politics’ in a South African English Studies course, Teaching in Higher Education, 9:2, Carfax

• McKinney, C. 2004: ‘A little hard piece of grass in your shoe’: understanding student resistance to critical literacy in post-apartheid South Africa, Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 22: 1&2

• McKinney, C. 2005: A Balancing Act: Ethical Dilemmas of Democratic teaching within Critical Pedagogy Educational Action Research 12:3 pp375-391

• McKinney, C. 2007: Caught between the ‘old’ and the ‘new’? Talking about ‘race’ in a post-apartheid university classroom, Race, Ethnicity and Education 10:2

• McKinney, C. 2007: ‘If I speak English does it make me less black anyway?’ ‘Race’ and English in South African desegregated schools, English Academy Review 24:2

• McKinney, C and Norton, B. 2008: Identity in Language and Literacy education, F.Hult and B.Spolsky (eds) Blackwell Handbook of Educational Linguistics, Blackwells

• McKinney, C. 2008: Uncomfortable positionings: Critical literacy and identity in a post-apartheid university classroom. In: Cooper, K. and White, R. E. (eds). Critical Literacies in Action: Social Perspectives and Teaching Practice. The Netherlands: Sense Publications (Transgressions series, edited by S. Steinberg and J. Kincheloe).

• Makoe, P and McKinney, C. 2009: Hybrid discursive practices in a South African multilingual primary classroom: A case study. English Teaching Practice and Critique 8:2 (80-95).

• McKinney, C. 2010: Schooling in black and white: Assimilationist discourses and subversive identity performances in a desegregated South African girls’ school. Race, Ethnicity & Education 13:2 (191-207).