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The Multiliteracies Learning Environment as Decolonial Nexus: Designing for Decolonial Teaching in a Literacies Course at a South African University
Scrutiny2 Pub Date : 2020-01-02 , DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2020.1800806
Grant Andrews 1 , Maria Prozesky 1 , Ilse Fouché 1
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Abstract In higher education institutions in South Africa, educators working in the fields of language and academic literacy need to be sensitive and responsive to the linguistic and cultural diversity of the student body, and traditional pedagogical approaches are often inappropriate to meet the needs of students and of the wider call to decolonise higher education. As a group of lecturers working at the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Education in Johannesburg, South Africa, we worked to respond to this context by designing a literacies course that was underpinned by a decolonial and social practices approach to literacy. Using critical reflection as a research method, this article traces our theoretical grounding in designing this course, including New Literacies Studies (NLS), community cultural wealth, and theories in indigenous studies, such as cultural interface theory. This article further demonstrates how we applied this theoretical framework through introducing practical activities that could be used to develop situated literacies and that tapped into the community cultural wealth that students bring to the classroom. We discuss four formative and summative assessment elements that were central to the course, namely online assessments, portfolio tasks, an argumentative essay, and what we termed the triad project, to illustrate how the decolonial approach informed our curriculum design and pedagogy. Our approach allowed us to explore new forms of assessment which opened space for students’ home languages, literacy practices, and identities to become valuable elements of teaching and learning.

中文翻译:

作为非殖民联系的多元文化学习环境:南非大学文学课程中的非殖民教学设计

摘要 在南非的高等教育机构中,在语言和学术素养领域工作的教育工作者需要对学生群体的语言和文化多样性保持敏感和反应,而传统的教学方法往往不适合满足学生和学术的需求。非殖民化高等教育的更广泛呼吁。作为在南非约翰内斯堡威特沃特斯兰德大学教育学院工作的一群讲师,我们致力于通过设计一门以非殖民化和社会实践扫盲方法为基础的扫盲课程来应对这种情况。本文使用批判性反思作为研究方法,追溯了我们设计这门课程的理论基础,包括新文学研究 (NLS)、社区文化财富、土著研究中的理论,如文化界面理论。本文进一步展示了我们如何通过引入实践活动来应用这一理论框架,这些活动可用于发展情境素养,并利用学生带入课堂的社区文化财富。我们讨论了课程核心的四个形成性和总结性评估要素,即在线评估、作品集任务、议论文和我们称之为三合会项目的内容,以说明非殖民主义方法如何影响我们的课程设计和教学法。我们的方法使我们能够探索新的评估形式,为学生的母语、读写实践和身份提供空间,使其成为教学和学习的宝贵元素。本文进一步展示了我们如何通过引入实践活动来应用这一理论框架,这些活动可用于发展情境素养,并利用学生带入课堂的社区文化财富。我们讨论了课程核心的四个形成性和总结性评估要素,即在线评估、作品集任务、议论文和我们称之为三合会项目的内容,以说明非殖民主义方法如何影响我们的课程设计和教学法。我们的方法使我们能够探索新的评估形式,为学生的母语、读写实践和身份提供空间,使其成为教学和学习的宝贵元素。本文进一步展示了我们如何通过引入实践活动来应用这一理论框架,这些活动可用于发展情境素养,并利用学生带入课堂的社区文化财富。我们讨论了课程核心的四个形成性和总结性评估要素,即在线评估、作品集任务、议论文和我们称之为三合会项目的内容,以说明非殖民主义方法如何影响我们的课程设计和教学法。我们的方法使我们能够探索新的评估形式,为学生的母语、读写实践和身份提供空间,使其成为教学和学习的宝贵元素。
更新日期:2020-01-02
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