Sökning: "Academic Literacies"

Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden Academic Literacies.

  1. 1. Developing Academic Literacies in Times of Change : Scaffolding Literacies Acquisition with the Curriculum and ICT in Rwandan Tertiary Education

    Författare :Charles Karoro Muhirwe; Ingrid Andersson; Nigel John Musk; Martin Stigmar; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Academic literacies; English for Specific Purposes ESP ; scaffolding; curriculum embedment; ICT; tertiary education; Rwanda; Academic literacies; allmän engelska och engelskt fackspråk; stödjande redskap; integrerade läroplaner; IKT; högre utbildning; Rwanda;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Skrivprocesser på högskolan : Text, plats och materialitet i uppsatsskrivandet

    Författare :Sofia Hort; Greger Andersson; Per Ledin; Johan Öhman; Gustaf Skar; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Student writing; Academic Writing; University Writing; Writing Processes; Academic Literacies; Digital Literacies; Teacher Education; Sociomateriality; Higher Education;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to explore how students in a higher education context handle the writing of their final essay. Applying a sociomaterial approach, the study offers comprehensive case studies of students’ writing processes. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A time and place for everything? : social visualisation tools and critical literacies

    Författare :Veronica Johansson; Högskolan i Borås; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Critical literacy; Document perspective; enactments of meaning; geographic information systems GIS ; ICT; information activities; inscriptions; interaction; library and information science LIS ; representation; social data; social visualisation tools; sociocultural perspective; Library and information science; Library and Information Science; Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to analyse mutual enactments of critical literacies and social visualisation tools as information resources. The central concept of critical literacies as used here extends and redefines prior critical literacy definitions to denote the pluralistic situated enactments of meaning through which study participants identify, question and transform bias, restrictions and power related aspects of access, control and use in relation to the tools. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Som man frågar får man svar : Andraspråksstudenter möter lärares krav i hemtentor

    Författare :Patricia Staaf; Gunilla Byrman; Gunlög Sundberg; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; andraspråk; akademisk diskurs; språkfunktioner; skribentroller; examinerande texter; hemtentor; Swedish; Svenska språket Nordiska språk;

    Sammanfattning : Avhandlingens övergripande syfte är att bidra till förståelsen av hur studenter med svenska som andraspråk möter de krav på språkanvändning som formuleras i lärandemål och i skriftliga exa­mina­tioner.    Avhandlingens forskningsfrågor rör dels vilka språkfunktioner och skribent­roller som efterfrågas i hemtentor under första årets högskoleutbildning, dels vilka språkliga strategier studenter med svenska som andraspråk använder för att möta de krav som ställs. LÄS MER