Selected Publications

 Forthcoming (2007)  Making Sense of Adult Literacy: Approaches to planning, implementing and delivering literacy initiatives for adults, with Juliet Millican and Juliet McCaffery.  Oxford: Oxfam.

Forthcoming (2007)  ‘A balancing act? The English and Welsh model of assessment in adult basic education’ (with Jay Derrick and Kathryn Ecclestone) in Campbell, Pat (Ed) Assessment Practices in Adult Basic Education.  Edmonton, Canada: Grassroots Press.

2007                           ‘Can Skills for Life become a system that learns?’. In RaPAL Vol 62 (Spring).

2006                           ‘From the tyranny of targets to a system that learns’ in Language Issues, Vol 18 No 2 (Autumn/Winter).

2006                           ‘Crossing borders – and back again:  A life of building bridges, squaring circles and living literacy as social practice’ in Tett, Lyn, Hamilton, Mary and Hillier, Yvonne (Eds), Adult Literacy, Numeracy and Language: Policy, Practice and Research.  Maidenhead, Berks: Open University Press.

2006                           ‘Literacy, community and citizenship: What do we teach, how do we teach it? Reflections from US experiences’ in Herrington, Margaret and Kendall, Alex (Eds), Insights from research and practice: a handbook for adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL practitioners.  Leicester: NIACE..

2005                           ‘Back to the future’, Adults Learning, Vol 17, No 1, September.  Leicester: NIACE.     

2005                           ‘Literacy, the life-course and accountability.’  Reflect.  Issue 3, June.  London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. 

2003                           ‘Practising what we preach: internal democracy and citizenship in adult education’ in Coare, P. and Johnston, R. (Eds) Adult learning, citizenship and community voices. Leicester: NIACE.

2002                           Fit for Purpose: Self-assessment for Small Providers, by Mark Ravenhall, Juliet Merrifield and Sue Gardener.  London: Learning and Skills Development Agency.

2002                           Learning citizenship. IDS Working Paper 158, Falmer: Institute of Development Studies.  http://www.ntd.co.uk/idsbookshop/details.asp?id=701

2001                           Listening to Learners: Consultation with Learners about Adult Literacy Education in Scotland.  Edinburgh: Scottish Executive.

2001                                         Mapping the Learning Journey:  NALA Assessment Framework for Adult Literacy and Numeracy, with Olga McDonogh and Ursula Coleman.  Dublin: National Adult Literacy Agency. http://www.nala.ie/mlj/

2001                           Issues and Opportunities in Assessment, with Ursula Coleman and Olga McDonogh.  Dublin: National Adult Literacy Agency. http://www.nala.ie/publications/listing/20010803104258.html

2000                           Informal Learning: Report of a Search Conference held in July 2000 with support from the Lifelong Learning Foundation.  London: Learning from Experience Trust.

2000                           Mapping APEL: Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning in Higher Education.  London: Learning from Experience Trust for Department for Education and Employment. http://www.dfes.gov.uk/dfee/heqe/let_final.htm

2000                           Equipped for the Future:  Technical Research Report.  Overview of research conducted as part of a national adult education system reform initiative.  Washington DC: National Institute for Literacy. http://eff.cls.utk.edu/PDF/merrifield_eff.pdf

1999                           'Adult basic skills in Britain:  Lessons for the United States', by Mary Hamilton and Juliet Merrifield.  The Annual Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, vol. 1, National Center for the Study of Adult Literacy and Learning.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. http://www.ncsall.net/?id=520

1998                           Contested Ground:  Performance and Accountability in Adult Basic Education.  NCSALL Reports No. 1.  Boston: National Center for the Study of Adult Literacy and Learning, Harvard University. http://www.ncsall.net/fileadmin/resources/research/report1.pdf

1997                           Life at the Margins:  Literacy, Language and Technology in Everyday Life, by Juliet Merrifield, Mary Beth Bingman, Kathleen deMarrais, David Hemphill.  New York: Teachers College Press.

1997                           "If job training is the answer, what is the question?  Research with women displaced textile workers," in Glynda Hull, Ed. Changing Work, Changing Workers:  Critical Perspectives on Language, Literacy and Skills. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

1997                           “Knowing, learning, doing:  Participatory action research and

                                    adult education,”  Focus on Basics, National Center for the Study of Adult Literacy and Learning, USA, Vol 1, No. 1, Spring.

1996                           Getting There:  A curriculum for people moving into employment.  Knoxville: Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee.

1994                           “‘Don't give us the Grand Canyon to cross:’  Participatory literacy

                                    and the information society,” with Brenda Bell. Adult Learning.

1994                           "Community in the Classroom:  Literacy and development in a rural industrialised region," by Juliet Merrifield, Connie White and Mary Beth Bingman, in Jean-Paul Hautecoeur (Ed) Alpha 94:  Literacy and Cultural Development Strategies in Rural Areas .  Hamburg, Germany: UNESCO Institute for Education.

1993                           "Putting scientists in their place:  Participatory research in environmental and occupational health," in Voices of Change:  Participatory Research in the United States and Canada, ed. by Peter Park, Mary Brydon-Miller, Budd Hall and Ted Jackson, Westport, CT:  Bergin and Garvey.