Talking democracy in Grade 7 : a discourse analysis of SRC practice in a primary school

My research set out to clarify to what extent democracy education is an identifiable and teachable concept in Curriculum 2005 and to find pedagogically useful ways of conceptualising and teaching active democratic participation. I chose a two-staged explorative qualitative research framework, informed by the New Literacy Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, with Grade 7 learners in a primary school. I identified school Student Representative Councils (SRC's) as a potential site for 'democracy education-in-action'.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Centre for Applied Language and Literacy Studies and Services in Africa

Year dc:date.issued

2001

Author dc:creator

• Proctor, Elspeth

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Young, Douglas
• Thesen, Lucia

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7882

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/7882