"I Am a Parrot": Literacy Ideologies and Rote Learning

Autor/in	Bhattacharya, Usree
Titel	"I Am a Parrot": Literacy Ideologies and Rote Learning
Quelle	In: Journal of Literacy Research, 54 (2022) 2, S.113-136 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bhattacharya, Usree)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1086-296X
DOI	10.1177/1086296X221098065
Schlagwörter	Rote Learning; Literacy Education; Residential Institutions; Teaching Methods; Recall (Psychology); Criticism; Student Attitudes; Learning Processes; Socialization; Suburban Schools; Equal Education; Barriers; Foreign Countries; Ethnography; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Language Attitudes; Language Variation; Longitudinal Studies; Public Schools; Elementary Secondary Education; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mechanisches Lernen; Wohnumgebung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Abberufung; Kritik; Schülerverhalten; Learning process; Lernprozess; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Suburban area; Outskirts; Suburb; School; Schools; Vorort; Vorstadt; Schule; Ausland; Ethnografie; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Sprachverhalten; Sprachenvielfalt; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Indien
Abstract	Widely prevalent in a variety of educational contexts around the world, rote learning practices entail repetition techniques to acquire new knowledge. These practices have long been critiqued because of the emphasis on recall rather than deep understanding. Less attention has been directed, however, at the literacy ideologies underpinning such practices: specifically, how such practices shape what students perceive as learning and how they see themselves as learners. In order to examine this, I draw on data from an 8-year investigation into the language and literacy socialization of six young boys who lived at an orphanage and attended a village school in suburban New Delhi. In addition to uncovering ideologies related to rote learning practices, I show how students acted as "bad subjects" by discursively resisting socialization into passive learner subjectivities. The findings are then related to the reproduction of inequality within the educational system through literacy practices. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01