Learning to learn: Children's language and literacy development in a marginalised community in Port Elizabeth
This article draws on a long term ethnographic study which explored the way the home based practices experienced by children in a marginalised community in a large South African city, Port Elizabeth, prepared them for, and supported them in, schooling. The study was informed by the field known as...
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This article draws on a long term ethnographic study which explored the way the home based practices experienced by children in a marginalised community in a large South African city, Port Elizabeth, prepared them for, and supported them in, schooling. The study was informed by the field known as ‘New Literacy Studies’ and which draws extensively on the likes of Heath (1983) and Street (1984). It acknowledges that individuals have the power to exercise agency in the context of structural and cultural constraints but shows how, in this particular community, poverty and geography and the educational backgrounds of caregivers impacted on their best efforts to contribute to their children’s development.
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| spelling | doaj.art-6f0b5481c0764f70b616e7442164d5462024-03-18T11:10:06ZengUniversity of the Free StatePerspectives in Education0258-22362519-593X2020-12-0138210.18820/2519593X/pie.v38.i2.13Learning to learn: Children's language and literacy development in a marginalised community in Port ElizabethMeredith Armstrong0Chrissie Boughey1Rhodes University, South AfricaRhodes University, South Africa This article draws on a long term ethnographic study which explored the way the home based practices experienced by children in a marginalised community in a large South African city, Port Elizabeth, prepared them for, and supported them in, schooling. The study was informed by the field known as ‘New Literacy Studies’ and which draws extensively on the likes of Heath (1983) and Street (1984). It acknowledges that individuals have the power to exercise agency in the context of structural and cultural constraints but shows how, in this particular community, poverty and geography and the educational backgrounds of caregivers impacted on their best efforts to contribute to their children’s development. http://196.255.246.28/index.php/pie/article/view/4364LiteracyLanguagePreparation for schoolingSupport for schooling |
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| title_short | Learning to learn: Children's language and literacy development in a marginalised community in Port Elizabeth |
| title_sort | learning to learn children s language and literacy development in a marginalised community in port elizabeth |
| topic | Literacy Language Preparation for schooling Support for schooling |
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