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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"literacy as a social practice"”.
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Adult Literacy discourses, their philosophical origins and their impact: case studies of the values and assumptions of practitioners
This research identifies the assumptions underpinning Different discourses about literacy and investigates their impact on the professional values of adult literacy Practitioners. Four key discourses are identified, ‘Literacy as skills’, ‘literacy as an experiential process’, ‘literacy as a social …
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Volunteering literacies : an ethnographic approach to exploring the literacy practices of adult volunteers on a vocational further education programme and a social media networking site in an aviation-centred uniformed youth group
… understand how the dominant and vernacular literacy practices of adult volunteers at an aviation-centred uniformed youth group in Hong Kong co-exist through a newly launched continuing education programme – a vocational qualification programme – and various types of texts in the volunteering …
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You Eat What You Are: Sociocultural Factors That Influence and Inform Food Literacies
… varied definitions and understandings of food literacy exist across health, nutrition, and education disciplines. Food literacy is a contested and subjective topic and has been used across health disciplines to combat dietary-related diseases to improve population health outcomes. Often, the …
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Negotiated literacies: how children enact what counts as reading in different social settings
This thesis takes as the object of its enquiry children's talk about the range of different media texts which they circulate amongst themselves in informal settings. It uses this data to raise questions about how we can conceptualise literacy in a multimedia age; the role that talk about texts …
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A case study of multimodal and authoritative meaning making in grade 5 isiZulu, English, and Natural Sciences lessons in a quintile 1 primary school
This is a case study of multimodal and authoritative meaning making in grade 5 isiZulu, English, and Natural Sciences lessons in a quintile 1 primary school in KwaZulu-Natal, uMzinyathi Municipality in Nqutu. This study investigated the nature of classroom discourse in each of the subject areas and …
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Shaping and reshaping identities in everyday literacy practices: Adolescent girls' use of selfies in a social and mobile world
… activities outside of school that support literacy practices and identity formation. The use of mobile devices and online spaces has become an integral component of girls’ everyday lives that results in copious reading, writing, and identity building. Recent and rapid changes in technology …
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The Multilingual Literacy Practices of Mirpuri Migrants in Pakistan and the UK : Combining New Literacy Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis.
… study of a Mirpuri family's migrations, as seen through the lens of New Literacy Studies. This means understanding literacy as a social practice, applied in different contexts to meet different purposes, in this case for the purposes of migration. This focus meant exploring many different …
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Exploring Tanzanian Students’ Experiences and Engagement with English-Language Books in School Library Spaces
The present challenges in the field of literacy and reading in the Tanzanian educational context are complex and multifaceted. A significant body of research attributes many of the difficulties teachers and students face to the language of instruction policies that prioritise English when it is not …
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First-year higher education students’ acquisition of digital content creation literacies in discipline-specific settings
… content through the implementation of digital literacy practices in technical, cognitive and social-emotional dimensions. As such, this thesis addresses the question: How and why do first-year higher education students acquire digital content creation literacies in a discipline-specific …
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Komiesa ko speel: Heteroglossia and Multimodality in bilingual children's play in a pre-school space
… the choices about languages they choose for socialising young emergent bi(multi)linguals and determining their identities. It also explores bi(multi)lingual children's heteroglossic practices and multimodal communication in their play in a pre-school setting and contrasts them with the …