Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland

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dc.contributor.advisorPrinsloo, Mastinen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorDlamini, Sikelela Mosesen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-06T07:17:12Z
dc.date.available2015-05-06T07:17:12Z
dc.date.issued2009en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-256).en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is an ethnographic study of the early literacy development of four children from low-income families in and around Manzini, Swaziland. It investigated the orientations to literacy, language, and communication that children brought to school from home, vice versa, and the sorts of consequences that such traversing of sites has for the children's literacy development and schooling. It is the first study of literacy and children's literacy carried out in Swaziland from a socio-cultural perspective. The study joins a growing body of New Literacy Studies research into the social practices that shape children's early literacy learning and a smaller body of such work from Africa. I used evidence from four children's home and school literacy lives, systematically collected by means of in-depth ethnographic case studies and used an interpretive analytical frame of enquiry. This study breaks with previous research in Swaziland by detailing the situated ways that reading and writing happen in specific socio-cultural contexts.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationDlamini, S. M. (2009). <i>Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12746en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationDlamini, Sikelela Moses. <i>"Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12746en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationDlamini, S. 2009. Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Dlamini, Sikelela Moses AB - This thesis is an ethnographic study of the early literacy development of four children from low-income families in and around Manzini, Swaziland. It investigated the orientations to literacy, language, and communication that children brought to school from home, vice versa, and the sorts of consequences that such traversing of sites has for the children's literacy development and schooling. It is the first study of literacy and children's literacy carried out in Swaziland from a socio-cultural perspective. The study joins a growing body of New Literacy Studies research into the social practices that shape children's early literacy learning and a smaller body of such work from Africa. I used evidence from four children's home and school literacy lives, systematically collected by means of in-depth ethnographic case studies and used an interpretive analytical frame of enquiry. This study breaks with previous research in Swaziland by detailing the situated ways that reading and writing happen in specific socio-cultural contexts. DA - 2009 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2009 T1 - Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland TI - Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12746 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/12746
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationDlamini SM. Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Education, 2009 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12746en_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.titleEarly language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swazilanden_ZA
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