scholarly journals Personal Literacy Narrative

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Narrative ◽  
Personal Literacy

scholarly journals ‘I got content with who I was’: Rural teachers’ encounters with new ways of practising literacy

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Toni Gennrich
Keyword(s):  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Literacy Teachers ◽  
Rural Teachers ◽  
Bachelor Of Education ◽  
Teacher Students ◽  
The University ◽  
Personal Literacy ◽  
Critical Imagination

In a context where Foundation Phase literacy teachers’ personal literacy often involves operational and technicist practices rather than creative, this paper argues that it is by exposing teachers to experiences of working with different genres of text for an extended time, in different fields, that teachers are able to imagine the possibilities these genres afford. Using a Bourdieusian framework of habitus, field, capital and doxa and applying imagination to the theorisation of these concepts, I examine the effect on a group of rural teachers from Limpopo province of being removed from their classrooms, and being given the opportunity to complete a 4-year Bachelor of Education degree at the University of the Witwatersrand. This case study used reflective journals and focus groups to trace shifts in the ways these teacher-students enacted literacy and thought about teaching literacy. Findings from this study suggest that teachers of literacy can change deeply entrenched ways of thinking about and valuing literacy by reflecting on the discontinuities between old and new ways of practice and, through anticipatory reflection, to imagine possibilities of teaching and enacting literacy differently. This requires critical imagination, awareness and agency. This paper discusses, in particular, Elela’s experience with poetry and Kganya’s experience with a drama script, assessing the effect this had on their personal literacy practices and how they imagine teaching literacy in the future.

Beyond Babel

2017 ◽  
pp. 196-202
Author(s):  
Monica Fantin
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Personal Literacy

This article highlights the importance of the concepts of media literacy, and digital and informational literacy to understand the multimodal meaning of multiliteracies and their interfaces. An analogy with Babel is used to understand the different ways in which this concept articulates the linguistic, visual, audio, spatial, and gestural dimensions in digital culture. In this framework, the question of convergence is highlighted in learning experiences undertaken in formal and informal contexts. To qualify the meaning of this learning for the subject, the article mentions the concept of personal literacy to locate the importance of subjectivity in the interactions that the multiliteracies offer. Finally, in an exercise of representation of the components of the multiliteracies, the article presents a diagram that highlights the importance of mediation and the forms of appropriation that express concepts and experiences in search of a transformative pedagogical practice, as an opportunity to understand the multiliteracies as a condition of dialog, expression and participation in the culture.

scholarly journals Navigating the Meanings of Social Justice, Teaching for Social Justice, and Multicultural Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunhee Cho
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Teaching For Social Justice ◽  
Inherent Feature ◽  
Degree Of Coherence ◽  
Social Justice Teaching ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Personal Literacy ◽  
Nancy Fraser

This article uses well-received contemporary scholarship—works by Iris Young, Nancy Fraser, Morva McDonald, Connie North, and Geneva Gay—to illuminate a high degree of coherence among the substantive meanings of social justice, teaching for social justice, and multicultural education. Based on these relationships, the article suggests that social justice is an inherent feature and goal of multicultural education, and the discourses between teaching for social justice and multicultural education should be mutually associated with one another to more effectively promote social justice. The article closes by outlining personal literacy that has the potential to enrich research and practice in multicultural education.

scholarly journals CULTURAL ARTIFACTS IN STUDENTS’ LITERACY NARRATIVE

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
R. R Setyaningrum
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Cultural Artifacts ◽  
Literacy Narratives ◽  
Positional Identity ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Literacy Narrative ◽  
Almost All ◽  
English Program ◽  
English Students

Literacy narrative is students’ writing. The students write their experiences in pass about how they learn reading, writing, speaking or listening in English. Students’ literacy narrative tells their effort to change identity from positional identity to figurative identity by using cultural artifacts. This study presents to identify the cultural artifacts to improve the students’ figurative identity through students’ literacy narrative. The objectives of study are to identify the cultural artifacts that use to change their identity by using literacy narrative. Qualitative research used to identify the cultural artifacts through students’ literacy narratives assignment and interview. The samples of the study are 20 students of senior high school. The finding result showed cultural artifacts are as tools to change their identity as a poor writer to be a good identity. Based on the students’ literacy narrative almost all of the students change their identity by cultural artifacts as books and English program (extracurricular). But some others, they joined English course beyond the school’s program. Considering the findings, this research highlights the need several times to identify the kinds of students’ identity by using ethnography.

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