Finding the Plot in South African Reading Education

Autor/inn/en	Rule, Peter; Land, Sandra
Titel	Finding the Plot in South African Reading Education
Quelle	In: Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 8 (2017) 1, Artikel 121 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2079-8245
Schlagwörter	Reading Instruction; Foreign Countries; Reading Comprehension; Case Studies; Adult Basic Education; Teaching Methods; Instructional Improvement; Elementary School Students; Teacher Education; Family Environment; Social Change; Educational Change; Racial Segregation; Rural Areas; Teacher Attitudes; Elementary School Teachers; Adult Educators; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leseunterricht; Ausland; Leseverstehen; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult education; Erwachsenenbildung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Unterrichtsqualität; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Familienmilieu; Sozialer Wandel; Bildungsreform; Rassentrennung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Lehrerverhalten; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Adult education teacher; Adult training; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	This article argues that we have lost the plot in South African reading education. To find it, we need to move beyond the predominant mode of reading as oral performance, where the emphasis is on accuracy and pronunciation, to reading as comprehension of meaning in text. While reading research in South Africa has been conducted mainly in school contexts, this case study is of a school and Adult Basic Education and Training Centre in a rural KwaZulu-Natal community near Pietermaritzburg. It found that an oratorical approach to reading dominated in both settings. It suggests that developing the way in which teachers understand the teaching of reading and transforming the teaching practices of those who teach as they were taught in the education system of the apartheid era are key to improving the teaching of reading. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01