Lectures in transition : a study of communicative practices in the humanities in a South African university

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dc.contributor.advisorMcCormick, Kayen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorThesen, Lucia Katherineen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-13T04:05:48Z
dc.date.available2015-01-13T04:05:48Z
dc.date.issued2009en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes abstract.en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (p. 217-226).en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe lecture is usually seen as an anachronism, out of step with contemporary trends in student learning and communication. However it remains a defining space in higher education, particularly in the first year experience. This study is a re-description of the lecture; it explores the tensions and silences that underlie what lectures do and mean in the lives of participants (both students with diverse language and educational histories, and their lecturers) in the humanities in a time of intense sociopolitical transition in a space envisaged as a contact zone, characterized by asymmetrical relations of power. It asks how participants engage with the communicative practices in and around lectures. Conceptually the study is rooted in the academic literacies field within the New Literacy Studies with its interest in the politics of student access to valued textual practices. The study draws from the following complementary traditions: a) theories of dialogic co-presence (Bakhtin, Goffman) that foreground how all communication is oriented to ‘the other’; b) social semiotics (Kress and van Leeuwen) with its emphasis on participants’ ‘interest’ – what social agents do, and how they make do, with available resources for meaning that include image, gaze and gesture, as well as spoken and written language; c) ritualization theory (Bell, McLaren), and how bodies mediate in practices.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationThesen, L. K. (2009). <i>Lectures in transition : a study of communicative practices in the humanities in a South African university</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12147en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationThesen, Lucia Katherine. <i>"Lectures in transition : a study of communicative practices in the humanities in a South African university."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12147en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationThesen, L. 2009. Lectures in transition : a study of communicative practices in the humanities in a South African university. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Thesen, Lucia Katherine AB - The lecture is usually seen as an anachronism, out of step with contemporary trends in student learning and communication. However it remains a defining space in higher education, particularly in the first year experience. This study is a re-description of the lecture; it explores the tensions and silences that underlie what lectures do and mean in the lives of participants (both students with diverse language and educational histories, and their lecturers) in the humanities in a time of intense sociopolitical transition in a space envisaged as a contact zone, characterized by asymmetrical relations of power. It asks how participants engage with the communicative practices in and around lectures. Conceptually the study is rooted in the academic literacies field within the New Literacy Studies with its interest in the politics of student access to valued textual practices. The study draws from the following complementary traditions: a) theories of dialogic co-presence (Bakhtin, Goffman) that foreground how all communication is oriented to ‘the other’; b) social semiotics (Kress and van Leeuwen) with its emphasis on participants’ ‘interest’ – what social agents do, and how they make do, with available resources for meaning that include image, gaze and gesture, as well as spoken and written language; c) ritualization theory (Bell, McLaren), and how bodies mediate in practices. DA - 2009 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2009 T1 - Lectures in transition : a study of communicative practices in the humanities in a South African university TI - Lectures in transition : a study of communicative practices in the humanities in a South African university UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12147 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/12147
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationThesen LK. Lectures in transition : a study of communicative practices in the humanities in a South African university. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 2009 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12147en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Educationen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherEducationen_ZA
dc.titleLectures in transition : a study of communicative practices in the humanities in a South African universityen_ZA
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