Search for dissertations about: "literacy practices"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 50 swedish dissertations containing the words literacy practices.

  2. 1. Framing Education : Doing Comics Literacy in the Classroom

    Author : Lars Wallner; Katarina Eriksson Barajas; Eva Reimers; Bethan Benwell; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; classroom research; comics; comics literacy; discursive psychology; educational practice; literacy; multimodal interaction; social interaction; visual literacy; diskursiv psykologi; klassrumsforskning; literacy; multimodal interaktion; pedagogiskt arbete; serie-literacy; serier; social interaktion; visuell literacy;

    Abstract : Interest in comics as Swedish school material has risen in the last few years and the publication of comics for children and adolescents has also increased. Meanwhile, although research around new literacies has taken an interest in combinations of image and text, there is still little research on comics as a literacy material, especially as part of school practices. READ MORE

  4. 2. Literacy Practices in and out of School in Karagwe : the Case of Primary School Literacy in Rural Tanzania

    Author : Åsa Wedin; Karsten Legère; Lise Iversen Kulbrandstad; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Literacy practices; bilingualism; Tanzania; Karagwe; language ideologies; literacy education; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Abstract : This study has investigated the question of relation between literacy practices in and out of school in rural Tanzania. By using the perspective of linguistic anthropology, literacy practices in five villages in Karagwe district in the northwest of Tanzania have been analysed. READ MORE

  5. 3. Towards a minor bilingualism : Exploring variations of language and literacy in early childhood education

    Author : Anna Martín-Bylund; Polly Björk-Willén; Eva Reimers; Diana Masny; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; minor; bilingualism; variations; language; literacy; Deleuze and Guattari; materialsemiotic; early childhood education; il literacy; language politics and language policy; minor; tvåspråkighet; variationer; språk; litteracitet; Deleuze Guattari; materialsemiotisk; förskola; il literacy; språkpolitik och språkpolicy;

    Abstract : The aim of this compilation thesis is to explore variations in bilingualism with the help of everyday specific situations at a Spanish-Swedish early childhood institution in Sweden, and by means of a ‘material-semiotic theorizing’. This means that material and semiotic elements are treated equally and entwined. READ MORE

  6. 4. Towards Visual Literacy in School : Interactions between Students and Interactive Visualizations in Social Science Classrooms

    Author : Ulrika Bodén; Linnéa Stenliden; Jörgen Nissen; Annika Lantz-Andersson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Design-based research; Interactive visualizations; Knowledge visualizations; Multimodality; Social science education; Socio-materiality; Visual analytics; Visual literacy; Designbaserad forskning; Interaktiva visualiseringar; Kunskapsvisualiseringar; Samhällsorienterande undervisning; Socio-materialitet; Visuell litteracitet;

    Abstract : This compilation thesis explores how the double aspect of visual literacy is enacted in secondary schools’ social science classrooms when interactive data visualizations are employed. The aim is to map what characterizes ‘reading’ interactive data visualizations and ‘writing’ knowledge visualizations, as well as implications for a didactic design supporting students’ visual literacy. READ MORE

  7. 5. Assessing Scientific Literacy as Participation in Civic Practices : Affordances and constraints for developing a practice for authentic classroom assessment of argumentation, source critique and decision-making

    Author : Jens Anker-Hansen; Maria Andrée; Per-Olof Wickman; Aik Ling Tan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; scientific literacy; assessment; authentic; communities of practice; expansive learning; argumentation; peer assessment; moderation meetings; naturvetenskapsämnenas didaktik; Science Education;

    Abstract : This thesis takes a departure from a view of scientific literacy as situated in participation in civic practices. From such a view, it becomes problematic to assess scientific literacy through decontextualised test items only dealing with single aspects of participation in contexts concerned with science. READ MORE