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Este trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa qualitativa-interpretativa, de cunho etnográfico, que visou compreender as relações entre letramentos escolares e letramentos sociais entre alunos de Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA). A coleta de dados ocorreu em duas comunidades escolares, localizadas na cidade de São Paulo, com suas respectivas professoras, por meio da observação de aulas, entrevistas formais e informais e questionários. Para compreender as relações entre letramentos escolares e sociais no contexto investigado, baseamos nossas análises nos estudos de letramentos novos letramentos, multiletramentos, letramento crítico (KALANTZIS e COPE, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2013; GEE, 2004; KRESS 2003, 2011; LANKSHEAR e KNOBEL, 2007, 2011; LEMKE 2010; MONTE MÓR, 2006, 2007, 2013; MENEZES DE SOUZA, 2011) que levam em conta os efeitos educacionais das mudanças sociais, culturais, econômicas e políticas advindas da globalização e da cultura midiática e digital. As análises apontaram, neste contexto de Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), marcadamente sensível a questões de marginalização social dos sujeitos por ela atendidos, para tanto distanciamentos e quanto aproximações entre ambos os tipos de letramento, evidenciando as relações conflituosas entre as concepções e as práticas pedagógicas observadas. / This qualitative-interpretative research, with ethnographic elements, aimed at investigating the relations between school literacies and social literacies in Adult Education . Its data was collected in two school communities, in the city of São Paulo, with their respective teachers, through class observation, formal and informal interviews and questionnaires. In order to understand such relations in the targeted context, we based our analyses in the literacies studies new literacies, multiliteracies, critical literacies (KALANTZIS e COPE, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2013; GEE, 2004; KRESS 2003, 2011; LANKSHEAR e KNOBEL, 2007, 2011; LEMKE 2010; MONTE MÓR, 2006, 2007, 2013; MENEZES DE SOUZA, 2011), which take into consideration educational effects towards the social, cultural, economic and political changes resulting from globalization and media and digital culture. Our analysis pointed that, especially in the context of Adult Education, markedly sensitive to issues of social marginalization of the subjects it serves, there are both distance and approximation of the two types of literacies, highlighting conflicted relations between pedagogical concepts and practices which were observed.

Inspired by the Bologna Process and other globalising influences from modern higher education, and driven by policy reform for national development after the ravages of the 1994 conflict and genocide, Rwanda’s tertiary education has embarked on a number of policy reform for national development after the ravages of the 1994 conflict and genocide, Rwanda’s tertiary education has embarked on a number of policy reforms that have ushered in expectations, requirements and demands that call for both reinvigorated and new academic literacies in undergraduate study since 2007. With its aim of producing a highly skilled human resource as a panacea for Rwanda’s social and economic development deficits, the tertiary education curriculum is more than never before focused on outcomes that are linked to further education and the labour market. However, one of the problems to contend with is academic and professional under- preparedness of students entering and exiting undergraduate study, respectively. Theoretically these developments involve distancing oneself from a previous pedagogy whereby the teacher imparts knowledge to the student but instead places greater responsibility on the student to search for knowledge either individually or in a group, as well as critically examine and be able to argue a point of view in writing and through other modes of communication. Therefore, this study has been informed especially by the New Literacy Studies and the Academic Literacies Approach to understanding the development of tertiary academic literacies. The study has also been inspired by the concept of educational scaffolding. It is against this backdrop that my study set out to investigate the academic literacies requested in undergraduate study, and to explore approaches adopted by tertiary learning institutions in the country to embed academic literacies acquisition into the mainstream curriculum over the last decade. Furthermore, the study sought to explore how technology is integrated at different levels to support the acquisition of academic literacies, including technological and information literacies. In order to achieve the aforementioned, the study embarked on a qualitative blend of cross-sectional and longitudinal research designs. Principal data were gathered from official documents obtained from the government and tertiary learning institutions. Drawing on the synergies of qualitative content analysis and intertextual analysis, the documentary data were analysed and then qualitatively interpreted. The data were supplemented by a couple of questionnaire mini-surveys which were also subjected to qualitative analysis. The findings indicate that a new and expanded definition of literacy in the 21st century implies  students’ development of a set of interrelated and transferable academic competences which are elaborated in the thesis. Curriculum discourses show that there is a shift of curricular and pedagogical  emphasis from general linguistic competence as a vehicle for developing academic literacies to a more integrated embedment of a number of literacies including English for Specific Purposes (ESP), study skills, as well as information, communication and technological literacies. Regarding the use of ICT as a scaffolding tool for learning, findings show that the use of technologies has the potential to support students’ processes of academic literacies development from a highly dependent level to a more autonomous level, given that the ICT integration policies and strategies could fully materialise. / Inspirerad av Bologna Processen och andra globala strömningar inom modern högskolepedagogik har man i Rwanda inlett en mängd policy reformer inom högre utbildning för att skapa nationell utveckling efter den förödande konflikten och folkmordet 1994. Sedan 2007 ställs nya förväntningar och krav på studenter inom den grundläggande högskoleutbildningen som skapar behov av att förstärka det som i forskningen benämns som ’new literacies’. Teoretiskt tar denna strömning avstånd från en tidigare pedagogik där läraren ger studenten kunskap och lägger i stället ett allt större ansvar på studenten att enskilt eller i grupp kunna söka kunskap, kritiskt granska och kunna argumentera för en ståndpunkt i skrift. Utbildning, och särskilt högre utbildning, ses som ett universalmedel för att råda bot för Rwandas sociala och ekonomiska underutveckling. Nya krav ställs också på att utbildningen både ska ha ett relevant akademiskt ämnesinnehåll som kan leda till fortsatt utbildning och vara anpassad till en kommande  yrkespraktik. Detta ställer i sin tur krav på att blivande studenter är väl förberedda när de går in i utbildningen och att de vid genomförda studier har både akademisk kunskap och är förberedda för en yrkesprofession. Mot denna bakgrund är syftet med denna studie att undersöka vilka krav på ’academic literacy’ som har ställts på studenter i Rwanda över tid. Det sätt på vilket stöd för sådana kunskapskrav integreras i den allmänna kursplanen under det senaste årtiondet och hur kunskap i och om IKT kan integreras för att ge stöd i att uppnå kursplanens mål har också undersökts. Data består huvudsakligen av insamlade officiella dokument från regeringen samt ett tvärsnitt av institutioner för högre utbildning. Med hjälp av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys och intertextuell analys har dokumenten tolkats för att se vilka centrala förändringar vad gäller ’academic literacy’ som skett över tid. Datainsamlingen kompletterades med mindre enkätstudier som också analyserats kvalitativt. Studien visar att en ny och utvidgad definition av ’academic literacy’ vuxit fram under 2000-talet som innebär att studenter behöver utveckla ny akademisk kompetens som är relaterad till och kan överföras mellan olika områden. Diskursen i de dokument som studerats visar att det skett en förändring som innebär att allmän språklig kompetens inte räcker som medel för att utveckla ’academic literacies’ utan den har utvidgats till att även integrera ämnesspecifik språkkunskap, olika former av studieteknik och IKT. När det gäller IKT som stödjande redskap för lärande visar studien att givet att politiska beslut och strategier för IKT-användning kan genomföras, förväntas användningen av dessa redskap ha en potential att stödja studenterna i den process som det innebär att gå från att vara helt beroende av lärarens undervisning till att mera självständigt söka och utveckla kunskap. Sammanfattningsvis understryks i studien att den kritik som framförts om  högskolestudenters bristande förberedelse både för akademiska studier och för arbetslivet är utanför deras kontroll. Kritiken ska snarare ses som ett imperativ för institutioner inom högre utbildning att skapa lämpliga kurser och pedagogiska miljöer för att ge studenterna förutsättningar att kunna utveckla en ’academic literacy’ som alla studenter har rätt att tillägna sig.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 luizsobrinho_vv_dr_sjrp.pdf: 4918822 bytes, checksum: 0106c8bd5035895bf27232fb2743a895 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundamentada numa concepção etnográfico-discursiva (CORRÊA, 2011; 2013), em estudos de letramentos (STREET, 2014; 2010; LEA; STREET, 2014) e em estudos do discurso (BAKHTIN, 2010; 2011; AUTHIERREVUZ, 1990; 2004), esta tese tem como objetivo investigar “conflitos” que emergem de produções textuais escolares escritas produzidas por escreventes de Ensino Fundamental II, no diálogo que é estabelecido entre esses alunos e a instituição escolar quanto a uso social de tecnologias digitais de informação e comunicação (TDIC). A hipótese de partida é a de que esses conflitos permitem observar uma heterogeneidade dos letramentos – entendida como a presença de “outro(s)” (letramentos (d)e sujeitos) na produção textual escolar escrita, mas, a essa produção não restrita – de que tanto produções textuais escolares escritas quanto, portanto, práticas sociais dos sujeitos, são resultantes. Este objetivo geral desdobra-se em outros, específicos: (i) investigar principais tendências de cumprimento da atividade de produção textual escolar escrita, considerando-se o que o foi solicitado pela instituição escolar/professor e o que o aluno escrevente efetivamente conseguiu cumprir; (ii) investigar marcas linguístico-discursivas que indiciam a heterogeneidade dos letramentos; (iii) investigar o modo como o aluno escrevente projeta o (seu) modo de participação em práticas letradas acadêmicas e práticas letradas digitais; (iv) apresentar resultados que contribuam para pesquisas na área de Ciências da Linguagem e para reflexões sobre políticas públicas de ensino de Língua Portuguesa no Brasil. O conjunto do material é formado de: (i) duas propostas de produção de redação e (ii) 203 (duzentas e três) produções textuais escolares escritas produzidas, com base nas referidas propostas, por alunos das então 5a. e 6a. séries (atuais 6o. e 7o. anos) de uma escola pública do município de São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, no ano de 2008 (TENANI, 2015). A adoção de procedimentos de investigação de base abdutiva (GINZBURG, 1990; 1991) permitiu que os textos analisados fossem agrupados segundo regularidades, a saber: (i) aquela em que o aluno pergunta a um primo/amigo sobre TDIC, por meio de uma carta pessoal; (ii) aquela em que o aluno responde a um primo/amigo sobre TDIC, por meio de uma carta pessoal; (iii) aquela em que o aluno pergunta e responde sobre TDIC, sem se apropriar do gênero carta pessoal; (iv) aquela em que o aluno foge ao tema. Dentre os resultados obtidos, destaca-se o do aspecto constitutivo de um letramento em outro – em outras palavras, a impossibilidade de se distinguir práticas sociais de leitura e escrita que seriam exclusivamente características do contexto da escola, tido como tradicional, daquelas que seriam exclusivamente características do contexto digital, tido como novidade. Tenciona-se, assim, contribuir para estudos de letramentos, com base na crítica de ideia corrente de que práticas sociais de leitura e escrita seriam de exclusividade de um contexto ou de outro, o que levaria à defesa de uma concepção de homogeneidade em cada prática situada. O estudo de marcas de heterogeneidade dos letramentos é relevante porque permite mostrar a complexidade da linguagem, numa dinâmica regida por constituição sócio-histórica do sujeito com o (no) outro, na alteridade. / Based on an discursive ethnographical conception (CORRÊA, 2011; 2013), in literacy studies (STREET, 2014; 2010; LEA; STREET, 2014) and in discursive studies (BAKHTIN, 2010, 2011) AUTHIER-REVUZ, 1990; 2004), this thesis aims to investigate “conflicts” which emerge from the written textual production of schoolchildren in middle school, in a dialogue established between these students and the school institution for social use of information and communication digital technologies (ICDT). The starting hypothesis is that these conflicts allow to observe a heterogeneity of literacies – understood as the presence of “other(s) (literacies of/and subjects) in written school textual production, but, to this non-restricted production – from what both school written textual production as, thus, social practices of subjects, are resultant. The general objective unfolds in others, specific ones: (i) to investigate major trends of compliance of the school written textual production activity, considering what was requested by the educational institution/teacher and what the student effectively achieved; (ii) to investigate linguistic discursive marks which indicate heterogeneity of literacies; (iii) to investigate how the student designs the (his/her) mode of participation in academic literacy practices and digital literacy practices; (iv) to present results that contribute to researches in Language Science and to reflection on Portuguese Language teaching public policies in Brazil. The whole material is constituted of: (i) two proposals of written production and (ii) 203 (two hundred and three) written textual production, based on these proposals, by students in then 5th and 6th grades (current 6th and 7th in Brazil educational system) from a São José do Rio Preto municipal public school, in 2008 (TENANI, 2015). The adoption of abductive based investigation procedures (GINZBURG, 1990; 1991) allowed to analyze the texts in groups according to regularities, namely: (i) the one in which the student asks a cousin/friend about ICDT, through a personal letter; (ii) the one in which the student answers a cousin/friend about ICDT, through personal letter; (iii) the one in which the student asks and answers about ICDT, without appropriating the personal letter genre; (iv) the one in which the student escapes the theme . Among the obtained results, it is noteworthy the constitutive aspects of a literacy in another – in other words, the impossibility of distinguishing reading and writing social practices which would be characteristics exclusively from school context, known as traditional, from the ones which would be characteristics exclusively from digital context, taken as novelty. It will thus contribute to literacy studies, based on the current idea that social practices of reading and writing would be a context or another exclusivity, which would lead to the defense of a homogeneity conception in each situated practice. The study of marks of literacies heterogeneity is relevant because it allows to show the language complexity, a dynamic ruled by socio-historical constitution of the subject with (in) the other, in otherness. / CAPES-COFECUB : 834/15

Este trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa qualitativa-interpretativa, de cunho etnográfico, que visou compreender as relações entre letramentos escolares e letramentos sociais entre alunos de Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA). A coleta de dados ocorreu em duas comunidades escolares, localizadas na cidade de São Paulo, com suas respectivas professoras, por meio da observação de aulas, entrevistas formais e informais e questionários. Para compreender as relações entre letramentos escolares e sociais no contexto investigado, baseamos nossas análises nos estudos de letramentos novos letramentos, multiletramentos, letramento crítico (KALANTZIS e COPE, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2013; GEE, 2004; KRESS 2003, 2011; LANKSHEAR e KNOBEL, 2007, 2011; LEMKE 2010; MONTE MÓR, 2006, 2007, 2013; MENEZES DE SOUZA, 2011) que levam em conta os efeitos educacionais das mudanças sociais, culturais, econômicas e políticas advindas da globalização e da cultura midiática e digital. As análises apontaram, neste contexto de Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), marcadamente sensível a questões de marginalização social dos sujeitos por ela atendidos, para tanto distanciamentos e quanto aproximações entre ambos os tipos de letramento, evidenciando as relações conflituosas entre as concepções e as práticas pedagógicas observadas. / This qualitative-interpretative research, with ethnographic elements, aimed at investigating the relations between school literacies and social literacies in Adult Education . Its data was collected in two school communities, in the city of São Paulo, with their respective teachers, through class observation, formal and informal interviews and questionnaires. In order to understand such relations in the targeted context, we based our analyses in the literacies studies new literacies, multiliteracies, critical literacies (KALANTZIS e COPE, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2013; GEE, 2004; KRESS 2003, 2011; LANKSHEAR e KNOBEL, 2007, 2011; LEMKE 2010; MONTE MÓR, 2006, 2007, 2013; MENEZES DE SOUZA, 2011), which take into consideration educational effects towards the social, cultural, economic and political changes resulting from globalization and media and digital culture. Our analysis pointed that, especially in the context of Adult Education, markedly sensitive to issues of social marginalization of the subjects it serves, there are both distance and approximation of the two types of literacies, highlighting conflicted relations between pedagogical concepts and practices which were observed.

Magister Educationis - MEd / Writing is an important skill throughout learners’ schooling trajectory because it is through writing that learners need to situate meaning and sense-making across the curriculum. Writing proficiency becomes even more important when learners access tertiary studies. Yet studies suggest that most students struggle with academic writing. Various authors suggest that writing has not been taught appropriately especially in secondary schooling contexts in South Africa and that writing becomes even more daunting for Second Language speakers of English when they reach tertiary education. There is abundant literature on students’ challenges with academic writing and ways to address academic writing challenges but the use of digital storytelling in relation to academic writing development is recent and distinctively underexplored in the literature.

Magister Educationis - MEd / Writing is an important skill throughout learners’ schooling trajectory because it is through writing that learners need to situate meaning and sense-making across the curriculum. Writing proficiency becomes even more important when learners access tertiary studies. Yet studies suggest that most students struggle with academic writing. Various authors suggest that writing has not been taught appropriately especially in secondary schooling contexts in South Africa and that writing becomes even more daunting for Second Language speakers of English when they reach tertiary education. There is abundant literature on students’ challenges with academic writing and ways to address academic writing challenges but the use of digital storytelling in relation to academic writing development is recent and distinctively underexplored in the literature. In this study, I seek to explore the potential that digital storytelling has in the teaching of undergraduate academic writing skills. I will focus on first year students' academic writing skills, how they are taught currently and how technology in the form of digital storytelling can help first year students improve their academic writing skills. The theoretical framework for the study is largely based on the New Literacies Studies which is championed by members of the New London Group such as Street and Street (1984) Lea and Street (2006) among others. The theoretical framework will draw on the notion of literacy as social practice rather than a set of reading and writing skills which explains why educators need to find new ways of teaching academic writing skills. I use semiotics and multimodality as a foundational concept for using digital storytelling in academic writing. That is because semiotics and multimodality further support the idea that literacy goes beyond words but that audio and visual elements are also part of learning and can help engage students in their academic work. The main aim of this proposed research is to explore both students and lecturer practices of digital literacies in the teaching and learning of academic writing at The Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). I propose the following research objectives: (i.) elucidate current academic writing scaffolding in academic modules; (ii.) draw on the use of digital storytelling in a first-year undergraduate course; (iii.) shed light on lecturers and students’ perceptions of the ways digital storytelling impacts on first-year academic writing; (iv.) highlight the implications of infusing multimodality into academic writing in this context; and (v.) explore the ways first-year students’ take on new writing practices and how these new practices are facilitated by the ii lecturer. I plan to use a qualitative research method to achieve my set objectives. I have opted to conduct action research, as both participant and researcher. The qualitative research method allows me to use the following research tools: document analysis; questionnaires and interviews. I analyse 15 student essays in order to elucidate current academic writing scaffolding in academic modules. These essays are divided into three categories: high performance; average performance; and low performance. Then questionnaires are distributed to students through a Google Forms link. Of the 40 student participants; 32 students filled in the questionnaires. The interviews were conducted with three lecturers across two departments at CPUT. These interviews, together with questionnaires that the students filled in served to address the following objectives: draw on the use of digital storytelling in a first-year undergraduate course; shed light on lecturers and students’ perceptions of the ways digital storytelling impacts on first-year academic writing; highlight the implications of infusing multimodality into academic writing in this context; and explore the ways first-year students’ take on new writing practices and how these new practices are facilitated by the lecturer. All the ethical considerations were adhered to for my research. I categorized my findings according to the research questions that I posed in the study. There were three research questions which serve as the three main themes of my data analysis. However, during the process of analyzing the data, a fourth theme emerged. The first finding indicates that academic writing scaffolding in academic writing modules is adequate for students who have essays in the high-performance category. However, it is inadequate especially for students who wrote essays in the low performance categories as they could not meet the demands of academic writing. The second finding indicates that students are able to use digital storytelling to help them with various aspects of academic writing. They are able to improve language and grammar; the structure of their writing, that is, the introduction, body and conclusion. The third finding illustrates that lecturers also feel that there are academic writing benefits to when using digital storytelling. Even though that may be, the use of technology for the medium of digital storytelling proved to be somewhat difficult. That is mostly because students did not have access to various technology such as internet connection or even equipment to complete the digital stories unproblematically. Then the fourth finding emerged during lecturer interviews, that is, fees must fall protests and the impact it had on the traditional university structure across. Fees must fall protests led to disruptions in academia because one key aspect they highlight is the need for decolonisation of the curriculum The use of digital storytelling then not only addressed the student academic writing challenges that are highlighted by this study, but also speak to decolonisation of the curriculum because it is an innovative way for students to engage with the demands of academic writing. The conclusion of my thesis is that as useful as digital storytelling is in academic writing; those who wish to use it as a teaching tool need to be well versed with technology as it can have challenges if not used adequately. The most pertinent of the factors revealed is that there is a need for innovative ways to teach the 21st century student.

Doctor Educationis / Writing is an important skill throughout learners’ schooling trajectory because it is through writing that learners need to situate meaning and sense-making across the curriculum. Writing proficiency becomes even more important when learners access tertiary studies. Yet studies suggest that most students struggle with academic writing. Various authors suggest that writing has not been taught appropriately especially in secondary schooling contexts in South Africa and that writing becomes even more daunting for Second Language speakers of English when they reach tertiary education. There is abundant literature on students’ challenges with academic writing and ways to address academic writing challenges but the use of digital storytelling in relation to academic writing development is recent and distinctively underexplored in the literature.

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