‘The village of my childhood’: nostalgia, narrative and landscape in an engineering course in South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorArcher, Arlene
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-15T11:49:11Z
dc.date.available2014-12-15T11:49:11Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractDifferent views of society, nature and technology inform engineering activity and proposed developmental interventions. This paper examines the discourses that students both draw on and propagate in a course on rural development in a first year engineering foundation programme. Students’ texts reflect and recycle different discourses, some of which may complement each other, and others may compete or represent conflicting interests. A range of modes and media, coupled with the degree of regulation in the classroom space, may enable different discourses to emerge or to be further suppressed. This paper looks at the way rural is often constructed as ‘lack’ and therefore ‘other’, as well as discourses of nostalgia and utopianism and how these feed into notions of development. The agenda underlying this investigation is about facilitating student access to the engineering curriculum and contributing to the theorizing of a pedagogy of diversity that utilizes rather than ignores or devalues diverse subjectivities.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationArcher, A. (2008). ‘The village of my childhood’: nostalgia, narrative and landscape in an engineering course in South Africa. <i>International Journal of Learning</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9989en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationArcher, Arlene "‘The village of my childhood’: nostalgia, narrative and landscape in an engineering course in South Africa." <i>International Journal of Learning</i> (2008) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9989en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationArcher, A. 2008. ‘The village of my childhood’: nostalgia, narrative and landscape in an engineering course in South Africa. International Journal of Learning.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1447-9494en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article AU - Archer, Arlene AB - Different views of society, nature and technology inform engineering activity and proposed developmental interventions. This paper examines the discourses that students both draw on and propagate in a course on rural development in a first year engineering foundation programme. Students’ texts reflect and recycle different discourses, some of which may complement each other, and others may compete or represent conflicting interests. A range of modes and media, coupled with the degree of regulation in the classroom space, may enable different discourses to emerge or to be further suppressed. This paper looks at the way rural is often constructed as ‘lack’ and therefore ‘other’, as well as discourses of nostalgia and utopianism and how these feed into notions of development. The agenda underlying this investigation is about facilitating student access to the engineering curriculum and contributing to the theorizing of a pedagogy of diversity that utilizes rather than ignores or devalues diverse subjectivities. DA - 2008 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - International Journal of Learning LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2008 SM - 1447-9494 T1 - ‘The village of my childhood’: nostalgia, narrative and landscape in an engineering course in South Africa TI - ‘The village of my childhood’: nostalgia, narrative and landscape in an engineering course in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9989 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/9989
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationArcher A. ‘The village of my childhood’: nostalgia, narrative and landscape in an engineering course in South Africa. International Journal of Learning. 2008; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9989.en_ZA
dc.languageengen_ZA
dc.publisherCommon Ground Publishingen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyCentre for Higher Education Developmenten_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.sourceInternational Journal of Learningen_ZA
dc.source.urihttp://ijl.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.30/prod.1514
dc.title‘The village of my childhood’: nostalgia, narrative and landscape in an engineering course in South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeJournal Articleen_ZA
uct.subject.keywordsdiscourse analysisen_ZA
uct.subject.keywordspedagogy of diversityen_ZA
uct.subject.keywordsnostalgia and narrativeen_ZA
uct.subject.keywordsmultimodalityen_ZA
uct.subject.keywordsrural developmenten_ZA
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uct.type.publicationResearchen_ZA
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