The Technological Practices of Rural Students
| dc.contributor.author | Czerniewicz, Laura | |
| dc.contributor.author | Brown, Cheryl | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-22T10:53:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-02-22T10:53:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-06-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper describes the habitus and technological practices of a South African rural student in hisfirst year at university. This student is one of five self-declared rural students, from a group of 23first-years in four South African universities, whose access to, and use of, technologies in their learning and everyday lives was investigated in 2011 using a ‘digital ethnography’ approach. Their digital practices, in the form of their activities in context, were collected through multiple strategies in order to provide a nuanced description of the role of technologies in their lives. The student reported on here came from a school and a community with very little access to information and communication technologies (ICTs). While the adjustment to first year can be challenging for all students, the findings show that this can be especially acute for students from rural backgrounds. The study provides an analysis of one student’s negotiation of a range of technologies six to nine months into his first year at university. Bourdieu’s theoretical concepts provide a lens for describing his practices through a consideration of his habitus, and access to and use of various forms of capitals in relation to the fields – especially that of higher education – in which he was situated. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Czerniewicz, L., & Brown, C. (2014). The Technological Practices of Rural Students. <i>South African Journal of Education</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23994 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Czerniewicz, Laura, and Cheryl Brown "The Technological Practices of Rural Students." <i>South African Journal of Education</i> (2014) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23994 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Czerniewicz, L. & Brown, C. (2014). The Technological Practices of Rural Students. South African Journal of Education, 34(1): 1-14. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Czerniewicz, Laura AU - Brown, Cheryl AB - This paper describes the habitus and technological practices of a South African rural student in hisfirst year at university. This student is one of five self-declared rural students, from a group of 23first-years in four South African universities, whose access to, and use of, technologies in their learning and everyday lives was investigated in 2011 using a ‘digital ethnography’ approach. Their digital practices, in the form of their activities in context, were collected through multiple strategies in order to provide a nuanced description of the role of technologies in their lives. The student reported on here came from a school and a community with very little access to information and communication technologies (ICTs). While the adjustment to first year can be challenging for all students, the findings show that this can be especially acute for students from rural backgrounds. The study provides an analysis of one student’s negotiation of a range of technologies six to nine months into his first year at university. Bourdieu’s theoretical concepts provide a lens for describing his practices through a consideration of his habitus, and access to and use of various forms of capitals in relation to the fields – especially that of higher education – in which he was situated. DA - 2014-06-01 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Journal of Education LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - The Technological Practices of Rural Students TI - The Technological Practices of Rural Students UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23994 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23994 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Czerniewicz L, Brown C. The Technological Practices of Rural Students. South African Journal of Education. 2014; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23994. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | South African Journal of Education | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.source | South African Journal of Education | en_ZA |
| dc.title | The Technological Practices of Rural Students | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.subject.keywords | ethnography | en_ZA |
| uct.subject.keywords | higher education practices | en_ZA |
| uct.subject.keywords | rural south africa | en_ZA |
| uct.subject.keywords | technology | en_ZA |
| uct.subject.keywords | Bourdieu | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.filetype | Interactive Resource | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Post-print | en_ZA |