This qualitative research project reconceptualizes conventional and prescriptive views of family literacy as literacies in the context of family relationships, experimenting with data from the home visitor participants of one international family literacy intervention program (FLIP): Home Instruction for the Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY). Participants of the HIPPY program in Canada primarily include newcomer families. While the program targets conventional forms of literacy and education relating to children’s school readiness, in practice their work with these families goes far beyond this initial focus further engaging with issues related to settlement. For example, after completing HIPPY’s two-year program successfully with their own children, parents can be hired to become home visitors, receive professional development and guide newcomer families through the HIPPY materials they will use with their children. Using the theoretical and practical lens of Multiple Literacy Theory (Masny, 2006, 2009, 2013) this project asks what literacy practices home visitors engage in with newcomer parents, how these practices function in the relationship, and what these practices produce in these interactions. Lombard (1981) recognized the need for further research on home visitor experiences after program coordinators noted the “highly visible changes in home visitors’ level of understanding and performance” (p. 89). Since then, however, parents and children continued to be the main focus of research. This project seeks to to illuminate the under-researched experiences of HIPPY home visitors. Using the theoretical and practical lens of Multiple Literacy Theory (Masny, 2006, 2009, 2013) and the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari (1987), qualitative observation and interview data were collected and analyzed through the process of rhizoanalysis, creating four mappings. The first mapping experiments with HIPPY not as an isolated program, but as part of a much larger assemblage of programs and services focused on newcomers in a Canadian community. The second mapping looks closely at HIPPY and English language acquisition. Mapping three experiments with conceptualizations of HIPPY home visitors as instructors of “Canadian culture”, and the fourth and final mapping delves into a more specific cultural focus on home and school connections. The final chapter of the dissertation is not a conclusion, but a look forward. This chapter introduces the concept of literacies in the context of family relationships as an integral part of not only early learning, but public and community health.

Orientador: Denise Bértoli Braga / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T13:51:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Curto_Viviane_M.pdf: 1256294 bytes, checksum: 02c7196a313693419fc95e779273a238 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa busca investigar como o letramento digital é abordado na Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA). Nos últimos anos, os documentos oficiais e os estudos teóricos do campo pedagógico têm proposto para essa modalidade de ensino uma nova configuração, que confere à EJA a responsabilidade de garantir aos seus alunos não só os conteúdos escolares formais como também o acesso aos bens materiais e sociais que lhes foram negados até então. Compreende-se que o computador e seus recursos constituem um desses bens aos quais os jovens e adultos de grupos periféricos podem ter acesso por intermédio da EJA. Nesta pesquisa, são analisadas as práticas de leitura e escrita realizadas no computador durante algumas aulas de informática ministradas a uma turma da modalidade de ensino em questão. Essas análises baseiam-se na discussão teórica feita na pesquisa que inicialmente apresenta uma contextualização sobre a EJA e sua nova configuração pedagógica. Em seguida, discutem-se os estudos referentes aos multiletramentos e aos letramentos digitais, buscando relacioná-los entre si e com o conceito de inclusão digital. Em um terceiro momento, apresentam-se uma revisão e uma reflexão sobre as pesquisas que tratam da utilização das novas tecnologias da informação e da comunicação (TICs) na educação, de um modo geral, e na EJA. Os resultados da pesquisa mostram que a escola parece ser o local onde o público dessa modalidade de ensino tem acesso ao computador e seus recursos. Além disso, percebe-se que em contexto de EJA a prática situada no computador pode se constituir como um instrumento eficaz para o aprendizado sobre o uso dessa tecnologia. Os resultados revelam ainda que os jovens e adultos apresentam especificidades de interação com o computador que precisam ser consideradas durante a abordagem dessa tecnologia com tal público / Abstract: The main purpose of this research is to investigate how the digital literacy is seen in the adult education. In the last few years, all the official documents and the theoretical studies in the pedagogical field have been proposing for this teaching modality a new configuration, which grants to the adult education the responsibility of giving not just the formal school subjects but also all the access to the material and social assets that have been denied since then. The computer and its features is one of the things poor youngs and adults have the right to have access to throw the adult education. In this research, we analyze the practices of reading and writing using the computer as a tool. All the analyses are based in a theoretical research we made which brings first a contextualization of the adult education and its new pedagogical configuration. After, we discuss the studies concerning the multiliteracy and digital literacy relating them and the concept of digital inclusion. In a third moment, we present a revision and a discussion about the researches that show the use of new technologies of information and communication in education, in general, and in adult education in particular. The research shows that the school could be the space where these students have access to the computers. Besides, we realize that in adult education the use of computer is more effective in the technology learning. The results show that youth and adults present some specificities in their interaction with the computer that must be considered during the studies of this technology in this particular group / Mestrado / Linguagem e Tecnologia / Mestre em Linguística Aplicada

Orientador: Marcelo El Khouri Buzato / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T10:46:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Scheifer_CamilaLawson_D.pdf: 3672758 bytes, checksum: f387673efa21900df6629ab822fc0dc3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esta tese representa uma tentativa de estabelecer teórica e empiricamente possíveis pressupostos para uma pedagogia de letramentos que assuma o espaço como uma prática social ¿ um terceiro espaço - que abarca dimensões tanto materiais quanto simbólicas. Com base em um projeto pedagógico interdisciplinar desenvolvido em uma classe de alunos de quinto ano, o estudo se propõe a gerar uma racionalidade espacial e um conjunto de ferramentas conceituais e analíticas alternativas que nos permitam pensar letramentos e aprendizagem como produtos e produtores de espaço-temporalidades. Estou particularmente interessada em entender como os alunos produzem significação enquanto cruzam espaços diversos através do engajamento com múltiplos letramentos, textos, discursos, atores, objetos, mídias e modalidades, e como esses processos de significação (re)constrõem conhecimentos, subjetividade e relações de poder em sala de aula. Tendo como referência teóricos que afirmam que o espaço não é meramente o pano de fundo estático onde a ação sócio-histórica se desenrola, mas um construto social que resulta de uma série de colonizações temporárias problemáticas que dividem e conectam as coisas em diferentes tipos de coletivos, estou também interessada no papel material, simbólico e corpóreo dos processos de significação na criação das colonizações temporárias das quais o espaço resulta. Inicialmente, faço uma crítica em relação à noção sociocultural de espaço subjacente aos Novos Estudos de Letramentos. Aponto a necessidade premente que as novas tecnologias nos impõem de abrirmos o contêiner no qual temos depositado nossas compreensões acerca das práticas escolares. Influenciada pela Virada Espacial de Lefebvre e Soja, tomo a relação espaço e tempo, sob óticas distintas e em face de diferentes problemáticas, como base de minhas reflexões teóricas. Proponho a Teoria-Ator-Rede como uma abordagem metodológica para o estudo do espaço e tempo (espaço-temporalidade) e da significação, uma vez que não toma suas dimensões materiais e simbólicas, humanas e não humanas, como descontínuas. Portanto, condizente como a interpretação espacial que estou a propor. No estudo empírico etnográfico, busco rastrear os movimentos de ressemiotização engendrados ao longo do projeto pedagógico, e as espacializações neles implicadas, no intuito de compreender como o espaço vai sendo articulado, negociado e resistido. A análise espacial dos eventos de letramento que compõem o projeto tornou possível a identificação de loci de aprendizagem, poder, criatividade e subjetividade, os quais possivelmente não teriam emergido sob outra perspectiva / Abstract: This thesis represents an attempt to theoretically and empirically establish possible assumptions for a pedagogy of literacies that assumes space as social practice ¿ a third space ¿ that comprehends both material and symbolic dimensions. Based on an interdisciplinary pedagogical project carried out in a fifth grade classroom, the study aims to draw a spatial rationality and a set of conceptual and analytical tools that enable us to think of literacies and learning as products and producers of spatio-temporalities. I am particularly interested in understanding how students make meaning while traversing different spaces through the engagement with multiple literacies, texts, discourses, actors, objects, media and modalities, and how these meaning-making processes (re)build knowledges, subjectivities and power relations in the classroom. Informed by theorists who assert that space is not merely the external static background where sociohistorical action takes place, but a social construct that results from the outcome of a series of problematic temporary settlements that divide and connect things up to different kinds of collectives, I am also concerned with the role of material, symbolic and embodied meaning-making processes in creating the temporary settlements of which space results. Initially, I make a critique of the sociocultural notion of space underlying the New Literacy Studies. I point to the urgent necessity the new technologies pose to open the container in which we have been depositing our understandings of school practices. Influenced by Lefebvre and Soja's Spatial Turn, I take time and space relation, under distinct perspectives and in light of different issues, as the basis for my theoretical discussions. I propose Actor-Network-Theory as a methodological approach for the study of space and time (spatio-temporalities) and meaning-making, since it does not see their material and symbolic, human and non-human, dimensions as discontinuous. Thus, in line with the spatial interpretation I am trying to articulate. In the ethnographic empirical study, I follow the resemiotization movements produced throughout the pedagogical project and the spatializations related to them, in order to understand how space is being articulated, negotiated and resisted. The spatial analysis of the literacy events that are part of the project made possible the identification of loci of learning, power, creativity and subjectivity, which possibly would not have emerged under another perspective / Doutorado / Linguagem e Tecnologia / Doutora em Lingüística Aplicada

The need to prepare science teachers in South Africa to respond to a heterogenous language and literacies context where multilingualism is the norm and where school conditions may shift rapidly is urgent. However, students arrive at university with varying resources and some, due to historical inequality, may not be able to meet the academic literacies demands of the university courses for which they register, and are often institutionally described as “at risk” or underprepared. Drawing on academic literacies and decoloniality theorising, this study examines the apprenticeship into the coloniality of schooling for African language speaking students locating deficit, not in the students but in the lingering colonial ideologies of language and literacy in the schooling and higher education systems. The research uses a qualitative approach and is a case study in the form of a participant intervention that addresses the academic and multiliteracies challenges faced by five African language speakers registered for a one-year Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in science education at an elite English medium university in South Africa. I also consider whether taking a decolonial approach to academic literacies could expand the students' repertoires of practice and their production of texts in the PGCE programme. In addition, I investigate the participants' early experiences of coloniality in education; the academic and multimodal practices needed by student teachers; how African languages could be used as a resource for learning; and the role spaces outside of the university campus played in developing students' identities as science teachers and in their construction of multimodal repertoires. The theoretical framework draws on decolonial theory (Mignolo 2007; Quijano 2007; Ngugi wa ‘Thiongo 1986) and a social practices approach to academic literacies (Street 1985; Lillis 2001; New Literacy Studies 1993 and the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies; and multimodality e.g. New London Group 2000). The research findings show how African language speaking students' learning and literacies experiences from school to university continue to be shaped by coloniality, specifically the use of English as the language of instruction. Additional findings consider the specific knowledge and experiences student teachers require to successfully navigate university courses and professional practice; and what practices the demystification of academic literacies knowledge entails in a teacher education course. Taking a decolonial approach to academic literacies repositioned the students as capable and demonstrated that the problem lay not with the students, but with the system specifically under-resourced educational practices such as multimodal learning and academic literacies and continuing colonial ideologies of language and literacy.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / Internationalisation or the “process of integrating an international/intercultural dimension into the teaching, research and service functions of a higher education institution” (Knight 1997: 8) has become an important aspect of the domination of higher education institutions. In South Africa as in countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Japan and Canada, there have been dramatic increases in the numbers of international students. Research shows that the majority of these international students experience various difficulties when the academic culture of the host environment is different from that of the home environment in many respects (Al-Murshidi, 2014; Abukhattala, 2013). The present study employs a social approach to academic literacies (Barton and Hamilton, 2000) to examine the academic reading and writing practices of a group of Libyan students in South Africa (against the backdrop of the home academic culture). Using both quantitative and qualitative methods (Creswell and Plano, 2011), data were collected and analysed to address reading and writing across Libyan and South African academic cultures. The sources of data include Facebook discussions, focus group discussions, questionnaires, documents (such as policies of UWC relevant to my study), and interviews with selected UWC officials. Thematic analysis was used to analyse qualitative data whereas SPSS was used to analyse quantitative data.

Although school systems have made investments in technology with the intention of raising student scores on state and national tests, improvements in student achievement have not always followed. The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher librarians' use of interactive whiteboards to improve student literacy. This qualitative case study was guided by the theory of social constructivism, wherein individuals learn through interaction with peers and knowledgeable others. The research questions were focused on how teacher librarians integrated multi-literacies and technological skills into pedagogical goals. Data were collected from a 4-member focus group interview, a questionnaire delivered to a subset of 3 teacher librarians, and public documents of the school system. All data were color-coded and analyzed for emergent common themes. The findings indicated that although the teacher librarians used interactive whiteboard technology to teach multiple literacies and technological skills to students and fellow teachers, 2 of the 4 participants did not use all of the interactive whiteboard tools. Based upon the findings, a professional development project was designed to improve educators' technological and multi-literacies skills in the school system. Recommendations include creating a repository of technology rich lesson plans, and expanding collaboration among educators. Increasing multi-literacies and technological skills may lead to positive social change through the enhancement of students' literacy and technology skills at school and for future employment.

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This article considers the impact of new technologies on the adolescent experience of live, literary theatre. Drawing together the work of theorists in literacies, new technologies and audience studies, together with brain research, and the results of a focus group of four secondary students who have seen four plays at Canada’s National Arts Centre, it examines the consequences of young people’s immersion in digital culture and the new mindset that often results. The expectation of instant access to data, inter-connectivity, stimulation and control can make it difficult for adolescents to decode the metaphorical aspects of a theatrical performance. The article concludes that language arts and dramatic arts educators have a key role in teaching students how to decode—and therefore enjoy and appreciate— a play.

The aim of this thesis is to investigate how Swedish young people’s information literacies are learned and enacted in different contexts. This study contributes to the information literacies research area by comparing information literacies across contexts rather than focusing on either the school context or everyday life, which most previous research has done. The study has a societal relevance linked to the library and education professions. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven Swedish students in their last year of secondary school. The study’s understanding of information literacies is based on sociocultural theory and practice theories. The empirical data was analysed from a sociocultural perspective. Concepts such as cultural tools, mastery and appropriation, cognitive value, cognitive authority, imposed questions, and infrastructural meaning-making were used in the analysis. The results illustrate that information literacies in school are affected by the students being judged and graded. Outside of school more information is passively encountered rather than actively searched for. Finding ways to minimise time and effort is part of the participants’ information literacies. Across contexts, information literacies are socially shaped and negotiated. How information literacies are conceptualised and learned in school affects what is considered searching for information and assessing credibility outside of that context. In school, credibility assessments are learned explicitly, while outside of school they are learned implicitly. The study also indicates the importance of educating students about search engines and algorithms.

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