In Memoriam - Carolyn Baker

 
  

        Carolyn Baker died on the 12th of July 2003. Earlier this year she was diagnosed with cancer.

        As colleagues and students we wish to remember  her excellent work in teaching and research. She contributed greatly to the field of conversational analysis and ethnomethodology, particularly in the educational field, but also in gender studies, cultural identity and membership categorization work, language and technology, publishing extensively over the years. This work will continue to support further reserach in these fields.

        Carolyn was the best supervisor one could wish for; she was always ready to discuss with you, to advise and to help to develop your own thinking. In fact she was very respectful of you as a person and as an academic with your own projects, ideas, convictions and plans for the future.

        Wherever Carolyn went she was able to build a research community, attracting many students and collegues, having them  meet, discuss, cooperate and become friends. Working with Carolyn was always productive, stimulating, exciting and fun. We loved her soft smile, her strength, her beauty, her elegance, her determination, her kindness.

        All of us are losing an excellent scholar, collegue and teacher, but above all, a very dear friend and a beautiful human being.

 

Joanne Ailwood

Carolyn Brown

Mike Brown

Min Chen

Robyn Cox

Ann Czislowski-Mckenna

Susan Damby

Christina Davidson

Bronwyn Davies

Michael Emmison

Peter Freebody

Jill Freiberg

Susan Hansen

Paula Jervis-Tracey

Greer Johnson

Ann Kelly

Jayne Keogh

Kathy Landvogt

Michele Leiminer

Barry McGrath

Alec McHoul

Pirjo Nikander

Isabella Paoletti

Jenny Perry

Eleni Petraki

Johanna Rendle-Short

Peter Renshaw

Kathy Roulston

Calvin Smith

Rhyll Vallis

Annette Woods

        

 
 

Carolyn’s publications:

Baker, C. (1982) Adolescent-adult talk as a practical interpretive problem  in Payne, G. and Cuff, E. (Eds.) Doing Teaching  London: Batsford

Baker, C. (1983) A ‘second look’ at interviews with adolescents  Journal of Youth and Adolescence  12(6): 501-19

Baker, C. (1984) The search for adultness: Membership work in adolescent-adult talk  Human Studies, 7: 301-23

Baker, C. (1991)  Literary practices and social relations in classroom reading events  in Baker, C. and Luke, A. (Eds.) Towards a critical sociology of reading and pedagogy, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins: 161-88

Baker, C. (1992) Description and analysis in classroom talk and interaction Journal of Classroom Interaction.  27:2. 9-14.

Baker, C. (1997) ‘Ticketing rules’: Categorization and moral ordering in a school staff meeting  in Hester, S. and Eglin, P. (Eds.) Culture in Action: Studies in Membership Categorization Analysis  Lanham, MD: University Press of America. pp. 79-102.

Baker, C. (1997) Ethnomethodological studies of talk in educational settings  in Davies, B. (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Education, vol. 3: Oral Discourse and Education  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic

Baker, C. (1997) Membership Categorization and Interview Accounts  in Silverman, D. (Ed.) Qualitative Research: Theory, Method and Practice  London: Sage

Baker, C. (1997) Transcription and representation in literary research  in Flood, J., Heath, S.B. and Lapp, D. (Eds.) A Handbook for Literacy Educators: Research on Teaching the Communicative and Visual Arts,  New York: Macmillan

Baker, C. (1998/1994) The Analysis of School Texts with Regard to Gender. in Husen, T. and Postlethwaite, T. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Education, Second Edition. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1994, Vol.9, pp. 5299-5302. Republished 1998 on CD-ROM

Baker, C. (2000) Locating culture in action: membership categorisation in texts and talk, in Lee, A. and Poynton, C. (Eds.) Culture and text: Discourse and methodology in social research and cultural studies, St. Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin

Baker, C. (2002) Ethnomethodological Analyses of Interviews. in Holstein, J. and Gubrium, J. (eds.) Handbook of Interview Research Sage, pp.777-796

Baker, C. (in press) Membership Categorisation in Educational Texts and Talk  in Lee, A. and Poynton, C. (Eds.) Culture and Text: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Sydney: Allen and Unwin

Baker, C. and Freebody, P. (1985) Children’s First School Books: Introductions to the Culture of Literacy. Harvard Educational Review Vol.55, No.4, 381-398.

Baker, C. and Freebody, P. (1987) ‘Constituting the child’ in beginning school readers British Journal of the Sociology of Education 8, 55-76.

Baker, C. and Davies, B. (1989)  A lesson on sex roles, Gender and Education, 1: 59-76

Baker, C. and Freebody, P. (1989) Children’s First School Books: Introductions to the Culture of Literacy.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell

Baker, C. and Freebody, P. (1989) Talk around text: Constructions of textual and teacher and teacher authority in classroom discourse  in de Castell, S., Luke, A. and Luke, C. (Eds.) Language, Authority and Criticism: Readings on the School Textbook London/Philadelphia: Falmer Press

Baker, C. and Luke, A. (eds.) (1991) Towards a Critical Sociology of Reading Pedagogy: Papers of the X11 World Congress on Reading. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, xxi+278pp

Baker, C. and Freebody, P. (2001/1993) The Crediting of Literate Competence in Classroom Talk. Australian Journal Language and Literacy Vol.16, No.4, 1993, 279-294; reprinted in Fehring, H. and Green, P. (eds.) Critical Literacy. Newark, Delaware: International Reading Association, 2001, pp.58-74

Baker, C. and Keogh, J. (1995)  Accounting for achievement in parent-teacher interviews  Human Studies, 18(2): 263-300

Baker, C. and Keogh, J. (1997) Mapping moral orders in parent teacher interviews  in  Marcarino, A. (Ed.) Analisi della conversatione e prospettive di recerca in etnometodologia, Urbino: Editioni Quattro Venti: 25-42

Baker, C. and Johnson, G. (1998) Interview Talk as Professional Practice. Language and Education 12,(4), 229-242

Baker, C. and Campbell, R. (1999) Children, Language and Power  in Campbell, R. and Green, D. (Eds.) Literacies and Learners: Current Perspectives, Sydney: Prentice-Hall

Baker, C. and Campbell, R. (2000) Children, Language and Power. in Campbell, R. and Green, D. (eds.) Literacies and Learners: Current Perspectives. Sydney: Prentice Hall

Baker, C. and Johnson, G. (2000) Stories of Courtship and Marriage: Orientations in Openings. Narrative Inquiry 10(1), 1-25

Baker, C., Emmison, M. and Firth, A. (2001) Discovering order in opening sequences: calls to a software helpline  in McHoul, A. and Rapley, M. (Eds.) How to Analyse Talk in Institutional Settings: A Casebook of Methods  London: Continuum

Campbell, R. and Baker, C. (2003) Children learning language. in Green, D. and Campbell, R. Literacies and Learners: Current Perspectives (2nd ed.) Frenchs Forest, NSW: Prentice Hall

Christensen, C. and Baker, C. (in press/2002) Pedagogy, Observation and the Construction of Learning Disabilities. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 10(1)

Danby, S. and Baker, C. (1998) How to be masculine in the block area, Childhood, 5(2), 151-175

Danby, S. and Baker, C. (1998) What’s the problem? Restoring Social Order in the Preschool Classroom  in Hutchby, I. and Moran-Ellis, J. (Eds.) Children and Social Competence: Arenas of Action, London: Falmer:: 157-86

Danby, S. and Baker, C. (2000) Unravelling the Fabric of Social Order in Block Area in Hester,S. and Francis, D. (Eds.) Local Educational Order: Ethnomethodological Studies in Action  Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Danby, S. and Baker, C. (2001) Escalating Terror: Communicative Strategies in a Preschool Classroom Dispute. Early Education and Development 12(3), 343-358

Freebody, P. and Baker, C. (1996)  Categories and sense-making in the talk and texts of schooling  in Bull, G. and Anstey, M. (Eds.) Lexicons of Literacy, Sydney: Prentice Hall: 145-59

Freebody, P. and baker, C. (2003) Categories and accounts in literacy research and education: changing targets. in Bull, G. and Anstey, M. The Literacy Lexicon (2nd ed.) Frenchs Forest, NSW: Prentice Hall

Honan, E., Knobel, M., Baker, C. and Davies, B. (2000) Producing Possible Hannahs: Theory and the Subject of Research. Qualitative Inquiry 6(1), 9-32

Honan, E., Knobel, M., Baker, C. and Davies, B. (2001) La Produccion de Posibles Anas: La Theoria y el Objecto do la Invetigacion. Desencuentros: Revista de Analsis Educativo y Social 2, 14-38 (Spanish translation of Honan et al. 2000)

Johnson, G. and Baker, C. (1998) Australian- Italian Courtship and Marriage Stories, Queensland: Central Queensland University Press. XV1 + 139pp.

Leiminer, M. and Baker, C. (1999) A Child’s Say in Parent-Teacher Talk at the Preschool: Using Conversation Analysis in Early Childhood Settings. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 1(2), 135-152

Leiminer, M. and Baker, C. (2002) Negotiating Competing Versions of ‘The Child’: An Analysis of a Child’s Competence in Participation in Parent-Teacher Talk at the Preschool. in Mason, J. and Wilkinson, M. (eds.) Taking Children Seriously. Conference Proceedings, Childhood and Youth Policy Research Unit, University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, pp. 276-299.

Moni, K., van Kraayenoord, C. and Baker, C. (1999) English Teachers’ Perceptions of Literacy Assessment in the First Year of Secondary School. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy 22(1), 26-39

Moni, K., van Kraayenoord, C. and Baker, C. (2002) Students perception of literacy assessment. Assessment in Education, 9(3), 319-342

Moni, K., van Kraayenoord, C. and Baker, C. (2003) An investigation of discourses of literacy assessment in two first year high school English classrooms. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 26(1), pp. 67-83

Moni, K., van Kraayenoord, C. and Baker, C. (in press) Reading the Texts of Assessment Task Sheets in Two Year 8 English Classrooms. Language and Education

Roulston, K.J., Baker, C. and Liljestrom, A. (2001) Analyzing the Interviewer’s Work in Generating Research Data: The Case of Complaints,  Qualitative Inquiry, 7(6), 745-72

Silverman, D., Baker, C. and Keogh, J. (1998)  The Case of the Silent Child: Advice-Giving and Advice-Reception in Parent-Teacher Interviews  in Hutchby, I. And Moran Ellis, J. (Eds.) Children and Social Competency: Arenas of Action, London: Falmer: 220-40