Christine Pearson Casanave, Writing Games. Multicultural Case Studies of Academic Literacy Practices in Higher Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Barrault-Méthy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Academic Literacy

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Ellen Pilon ◽  
Phyllis Hildebrandt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Critical Applied Linguistics

Reviews of: 'Writing Games: Multicultural Case Studies of Academic Literacy Practices in Higher Education,' by Christine Pearson Casanave; and 'Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction,' by A. Pennycook.

WRITING GAMES: MULTICULTURAL CASE STUDIES OF ACADEMIC LITERACY PRACTICES IN HIGHER EDUCATION.Christine Pearson Casanave. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2002. Pp. xx + 316. $69.95 cloth, $32.50 paper.

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-586
Author(s):  
Michael Khirallah
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Discourse Community ◽  
Master's Students

This volume's study of academic literacy practices in higher education is about the writing games we play in the academy. This is not a cynical exploration of such games that assumes the giving up of one's voice to join a discourse community; Casanave's metaphor suggests negotiation in writing games that shapes us, for better or for worse. From Casanave's opening chapter discussing the book's framework to her conclusion, the book is rich in insights about the nature of literacy practices among undergraduate students, Master's students, doctoral students, and faculty.

scholarly journals Culturally Diverse Students in Higher Education: Challenges and Possibilities within Academic Literacy Practices

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Tkachenko ◽  
Kari Bratland ◽  
Jorunn Store Johansen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Student Diversity ◽  
Diverse Students ◽  
Culturally Diverse Students ◽  
Majority Students

With growing diversity in the population, higher education faces a new situation with increasing student diversity. In our paper, we will explore questions concerning the consequences student diversity has for higher-education institutions. Based on our experience from three different R&D projects, the differences in culture and academic literacy practices give culturally diverse students challenges that have often been ignored in academia. Some other studies also document that this group of students has a much higher risk of dropping out and underachieving than majority students (Andersen & Skaarer- Kreutz, 2007; Støren, 2009). In our paper, we are going to discuss the students’ challenges and discourse of remediation that is often associated with their challenges and suggest how higher-education institutions can adjust their practices to be more oriented to intercultural communication. Intercultural communication as a dialogic approach may create dynamics in academic tutoring and lead to mutual change/transformation instead of a one-way adaptation of existing academic literacy norms. We argue that all teachers should be aware of cultural differences in literacy practices in the education systems and strive to adjust their teaching practices to the diversity in the classroom. This approach, we believe, can contribute to a better learning environment for all students, independently of their backgrounds. 

scholarly journals “What kind of paper do you want from us?”: developing genre knowledge in one Kazakhstani university postgraduate school

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Montgomery ◽  
Jason Sparks ◽  
Bridget Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Academic Literacies ◽  
Literacy Practice ◽  
Genre Awareness ◽  
Science School ◽  
Genre Knowledge

Drawing on the Academic Literacies perspectives of Lea and Street and key genre theorists, this mixed-methods case study explored multilingual student experiences of academic literacy practices in one postgraduate social-science school in an English-medium university in Kazakhstan. Two questions guided the research: (1) To what extent and in what ways do students develop genre knowledge in their school EMI contexts?; (2) Which pedagogical approaches and strategies do students identify as beneficial in supporting genre knowledge development? The study found students developed genre awareness for research-related literacy practices, involving field-, tenor- and mode-related genre knowledge. The study also found student capacity to apply genre knowledge successfully across a range of text genres. Another finding was that challenge and success in genre knowledge development was a function of the extent of explicit feedback from instructors and peers and explicit assignment expectations. Each of our findings are consistent with the critique and recommendations of Lea and Street (1998; 2006) on the importance of a situated approach to developing student academic literacy practice that accounts for the larger institutional contexts and epistemological traditions in which those practices have meaning. These findings have important value for discussions and debates on student academic literacy learning and practice in higher education in Kazakhstan, across Central Asia and in other countries where policies for internationalization and research universities are rapidly transforming higher education literacy practice in the current era of globalization.

scholarly journals Tracing academic literacies across contemporary literacy sponsorscapes: Mobilities, ideologies, identities, and technologies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon M Wargo ◽  
Peter I. De Costa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Literacy Development ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Purchasing Power ◽  
Writing Classroom ◽  
Academic Literacies ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Emerging Literacy ◽  
New Directions

Locating itself broadly within the 'sociolinguistics of mobility' (Blommaert, 2014) and taking heed of Stornaiuolo and Hall's (2014) call to 'trace resonance' in writing and literacies research, this article works to trace academic literacies across the emerging 'literacy sponsorscapes' (Wargo, 2016a) of contemporary culture. Despite its variance and recent resurgence (Lillis and Scott, 2007), academic literacies continues to be reduced to: (1) an instrumentalist and pragmatic pedagogy, and (2) the ability to navigate academic conventions and practices of higher education (Lea and Street, 1998), in particular the writing classroom (Castelló and Donahue, 2012). This centred focus, however, is limiting, and silences the more innocuous and less tangible sponsors of academic literacies: mobilities , ideologies, identities , and technologies . Set against the backdrop of globalization, and grounded in two case studies, this article considers how academic literacies are not an 'and' but an 'elsewhere', thereby emphasizing the importance of sociolinguistic space in academic literacy development. In it, we chart new directions for scholarship and underscore how ideologies shift with mobilities (Pennycook, 2008; Pennycook, 2012), are indexed by identities (De Costa and Norton, 2016; Hawkins, 2005), and extend through technologies (Lam, 2009; Rymes, 2012). By outlining a literacy sponsorscapes framework for studying academic literacies, this article highlights the purchasing power of seeing academic literacies not solely as a field or set of practices, but rather as a locating mechanism for studying a range of hybridized repertoires that are shaped and constituted by the physical and social spaces that contemporary youth inhabit.

Teaching Interreligious Encounter

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Gustafson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Comparative Theology ◽  
Guest Speakers

This chapter offers instructors in higher education some basic tools and elements of course design for interreligious encounter in the undergraduate classroom. Aiming at practice over theory, it provides practical suggestions for fostering interreligious understanding from the first day of class through the end of the semester. These suggestions include the use of guest speakers, interdisciplinary case studies, in-class reflections, and interreligious community engagement (i.e., “service learning”), among others. Further, it provides a concise bibliography of basic introductory texts for both students and instructors in the areas of comparative theology, theologies of religions and religious pluralisms, and interreligious studies and dialogue.

scholarly journals The core components of education 4.0 in higher education: Three case studies in engineering education

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 107278
Author(s):  
Jhonattan Miranda ◽  
Christelle Navarrete ◽  
Julieta Noguez ◽  
José-Martin Molina-Espinosa ◽  
María-Soledad Ramírez-Montoya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Components

scholarly journals Characteristics of dental note taking: a material based themed analysis of Swedish dental students

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Viveca Lindberg ◽  
Sofia Louca Jounger ◽  
Maria Christidis ◽  
Nikolaos Christidis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Dental Education ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
New Literacy ◽  
New Literacy Studies ◽  
Writing Practices

Abstract Background The transition from upper secondary to higher education and from higher education to professional practice requires that students adapt to new literacy practices, academic and professional. However, there is a gap of knowledge regarding literacy practices in dental education. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify what characterizes dental students’ notetaking and secondarily to determine what dental students express regarding their notetaking. Methods To analyze students’ perspectives about the purposes of notetaking and to examine their written notes in depth, three volunteer students, out of the 24 students that voluntarily and anonymously handed in their notes, were interviewed. The three undergraduate dental students that participated in this material-based, semi-structured interview study, framed within a New Literacy Studies approach, were on their third year (6th semester). The focus of these material-based interviews was on each student’s notes. Questions prepared for semi-structured interviews were open-ended and allowed for individual follow-up questions related to the interviewee’s answer. To analyze the outcome of the interviews a thematic analysis was used. Results From the material-based interviews eight themes that relate to what, how and for what purpose students write were discerned. These eight themes include professional vocabulary, core content as well as clinical examples that belong to what students read and write; multimodal accentuation as well as synthesis that belong to how students read and write; and mnemonic strategies, academic purposes, and professional purposes that belong to for what purpose students read and write. Conclusions Findings from the interviews indicate that the digital development, offering a variety of available tools, has expanded the notion of notetaking. This study identified that dental students’ notetaking has changed during their education from initially being synchronous, to also include multimodal and asynchronous writing, making notetaking more of a writing practice. Further, students’ writing practices seem to be motivated by their knowledge formation in relation to a subject matter, but also in relation to their experiences during clinical training. Although, our hypothesis was that the main purpose of notetaking and writing was to pass their course examinations, this study showed that students that were half-way through their dental education, are aware that literacy practices are for learning for their future profession, and not only for passing their exams.

Case Studies of Internationalization in Adult and Higher Education

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joellen Elizabeth Coryell ◽  
Beth A. Durodoye ◽  
Robin Redmon Wright ◽  
P. Elizabeth Pate ◽  
Shelbee Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Adult And Higher Education

A critical approach to academic, community, and family literacies of first-generation college students in Latin America

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Lina M. Trigos-Carrillo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Latin America ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
Community Cultural Wealth ◽  
Cultural Wealth ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Generation College

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] In this study, I investigated the social practices related to reading and writing of first-generation college students and their families and communities in Latin America from a critical sociocultural perspective (Lewis, Enciso and Moje, 2007). This embedded multiple-case study was conducted in Mexico, Colombia, and Costa Rica. Using an ethnographic perspective of data collection (Bernard, 2011; Lillis and Scott, 2007) and the constant comparative method (Heath and Street, 2008), situational analysis (Clarke, 2005), and within and cross-case analysis (Yin, 2014), I analyzed specific literacy events (Heath, 1982) and literacy practices (Street, 2003) in social context. First, I argue that access to the academic discourse and culture is one of the main barriers first-generation college students faced, although they constructed strong social support systems and engaged in rich literacy practices that involved critical action and thinking. Second, I found that, in contrast to the common belief that socially and economically nonmainstream college students were deficient in literacy, these students and their families possessed a literacy capital and engaged in complex and varied literacy practices. Using their literacy capital, first-generation college students and their families and communities procured the preservation of cultural identity, resisted the effects of cultural globalization, served the role of literacy sponsors, and reacted critically to the sociopolitical context. These literacy practices constituted a community cultural wealth for the families and communities of first-generation college students. I argue that a positive approach towards first-generation college students' identities and their community cultural wealth is necessary in curriculum, instruction, and policy if universities are truly committed to provide access to higher education to students from diverse backgrounds. Finally, I investigated first-generation university women's gender identities, discourses, and roles as they navigated the social worlds of the public university and their local communities in Mexico, Colombia, and Costa Rica. While dominant discourses and roles associated with women reproduced the machismo culture in the region, these group of first-generation university women contested, challenged, and resisted those roles, discourses, and identities. From a Latin American feminist perspective, I argue that bonds of solidarity and communal relations are values that resist the negative effects of global capitalism in marginalized bodies. In particular, public universities, women's supporters, emancipatory discourses, and situated critical literacies played a critical role in improving gender equality in higher education in Latin America. This study contributes to a better understanding of the literacy practices in situated social contexts and informs the ways in which more equitable college instruction, policy, and practices can be developed and promoted.

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