Literacy as discourse: Technologies of discipline

Literacy and development as discourse, cognition or as both?

Commenting on R&T’s ‘Developing Linguistic Literacy’ is not an easy task. Their attempt addresses precisely the right questions, in all their complexities and breadth, centring and bundling these questions in strategic and potentially novel ways, and thereby exploring new territories and encouraging investigators to enter these territories. However, I still feel left with a sense of incompleten...

Academic Discourse and Literacy Narratives as "Equipment for Living"

In his article "Academic Discourse and Narratives of Literacy as 'Equipment for Living'" Kris Rutten discusses practices of academic discourse and argues that students entering higher education have to become part of a specific community of institutional discourse. Rutten claims that narratives of and about literacy — narratives that revolve around issues dealing with language and the acquisiti...

Deconstructing Binary Oppositions in Literacy Discourse & Pedagogy

Participatory technologies, pedagogy 2.0 and information literacy

Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Abstract Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the impact participatory technologies have had on education and the information environment in which students operate. It seeks to define a pedagogical approach that will capitalize on the benefits of participatory technologies in the classroom and applies this " pedagogy 2.0 " to information li...

Using Web Technologies in the Discipline of Law and Informatics

This article discusses the use of the new technologies of the information and communication (ICT) and web tools in the teaching/learning of the discipline Law and Informatics of the Course of Law of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Brazil. At present there is an interest on the part of the teachers and the students to understand this work methodology, and the best approach to ...