Investigating literacy narratives among ethno-linguistically diverse South African students

dc.contributor.authorCarstens, Adelia
dc.contributor.emailadelia.carstens@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T09:50:24Z
dc.date.issued2015-07
dc.description.abstractThis article reports on a study of pre-service teachers’ literacy narratives in a South African institution of higher learning. Literacy self-narratives of 57 students were collected and analysed for categories and themes under narrator and sponsor identities through the use of AtlasTi software. The results of the study show the role of historical, cultural and political contexts in shaping literacy identities of student teachers. The results also show huge disparities of literacy experiences among different racial and gender groupings, which highlight social and educational opportunities. Using New literacies and Multiliteracies frameworks, I consider how these literacy challenges may be transformed to facilitate a just and equitable society. Particular implications of the students’ constructions of literacy identities are considered at the end of the article.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentUnit for Academic Literacyen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2016-07-30
dc.description.librarianam2016en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ijslen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCarstens, A 2015, 'Investigating literacy narratives among ethno-linguistically diverse South African students', International Journal of the Sociology of Language, no. 234, pp. 93-114.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0165-2516 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1613-3668 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1515/ijsl-2015-0006
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/52056
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherDe Gruyteren_ZA
dc.rights© 2015 Walter de Gruyteren_ZA
dc.subjectAcademic literaciesen_ZA
dc.subjectLiteracy self-narrativeen_ZA
dc.subjectLiteracy narrative pedagogyen_ZA
dc.subjectMultilingualismen_ZA
dc.subjectNew literaciesen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africa (SA)en_ZA
dc.titleInvestigating literacy narratives among ethno-linguistically diverse South African studentsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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