A contrastive ethnographic case study of homes in Cape Town

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dc.contributor.advisorPrinsloo, Mastinen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorLemphane, Polo Adelinaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-05T07:05:36Z
dc.date.available2015-01-05T07:05:36Z
dc.date.issued2012en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis study contrasts children’s digital communicative literacy practices in two homes in Cape Town, South Africa. It aimed to find out whether children’s early engagement with digital media in home settings might vary across socio-economic settings, with implications for their subsequent school-based engagements with reading and writing practices. An ethnographic style contrastive case study approach was employed to investigate the nature and implications of children’s home digital literacy practices across socio-economically divergent settings, namely, in one working class family, where neither of the parents were formally employed in wage labour, and one middle class family, where the parents were both employed professionals. While the two families shared a common relation to South Sotho/Setswana as their family heritage language, they differed widely in other respects, because of different social locations as middle class/working class families, including everyday language use and the social expectations of their young children.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationLemphane, P. A. (2012). <i>A contrastive ethnographic case study of homes in Cape Town</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11394en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationLemphane, Polo Adelina. <i>"A contrastive ethnographic case study of homes in Cape Town."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11394en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationLemphane, P. 2012. A contrastive ethnographic case study of homes in Cape Town. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Lemphane, Polo Adelina AB - This study contrasts children’s digital communicative literacy practices in two homes in Cape Town, South Africa. It aimed to find out whether children’s early engagement with digital media in home settings might vary across socio-economic settings, with implications for their subsequent school-based engagements with reading and writing practices. An ethnographic style contrastive case study approach was employed to investigate the nature and implications of children’s home digital literacy practices across socio-economically divergent settings, namely, in one working class family, where neither of the parents were formally employed in wage labour, and one middle class family, where the parents were both employed professionals. While the two families shared a common relation to South Sotho/Setswana as their family heritage language, they differed widely in other respects, because of different social locations as middle class/working class families, including everyday language use and the social expectations of their young children. DA - 2012 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2012 T1 - A contrastive ethnographic case study of homes in Cape Town TI - A contrastive ethnographic case study of homes in Cape Town UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11394 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/11394
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationLemphane PA. A contrastive ethnographic case study of homes in Cape Town. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 2012 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11394en_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.titleA contrastive ethnographic case study of homes in Cape Townen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnameMPhilen_ZA
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