A Bourdieusian Approach to Academic Reading: Reflections on a South African Teaching Experience

Autor/inn/en	Hill, Lloyd; Meo, Analía Inés
Titel	A Bourdieusian Approach to Academic Reading: Reflections on a South African Teaching Experience
Quelle	In: Teaching in Higher Education, 20 (2015) 8, S.845-856 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-2517
DOI	10.1080/13562517.2015.1095178
Schlagwörter	Teaching Experience; Foreign Countries; Literacy; Academic Discourse; Reading Skills; Role; Intellectual Disciplines; Graduate Students; Universities; Student Attitudes; Models; Questionnaires; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Literacy Education; Teaching Methods; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Discourse; Diskurs; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Rollen; Geisteswissenschaften; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; University; Universität; Schülerverhalten; Analogiemodell; Fragebogen; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	As in many other parts of the world, "academic literacy" has emerged as both a concern and a contested concept in South African universities. In this article we focus specifically on academic reading, which we argue is a relatively underemphasized aspect of academic literacy. This article is the product of reflections on academic reading during and subsequent to the development and presentation of a postgraduate module presented at Stellenbosch University. It briefly explores the literature on academic literacy; develops the Bourdieusian perspective on academic reading that we used to develop the module; and concludes with a discussion of the module. Our intention was to make "reading as social practice" more visible to students. Bourdieu's concepts of "competence", "habitus" and "field" set the scene for a discussion of the role of reading in different disciples and more generally within the social sciences and humanities. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01