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Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256).

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Main Author: Dlamini, Sikelela Moses
Other Authors: Prinsloo, Mastin
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: School of Education 2015
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12746 Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland Dlamini, Sikelela Moses Prinsloo, Mastin Education Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-256). This thesis is an ethnographic study of the early literacy development of four children from low-income families in and around Manzini, Swaziland. It investigated the orientations to literacy, language, and communication that children brought to school from home, vice versa, and the sorts of consequences that such traversing of sites has for the children's literacy development and schooling. It is the first study of literacy and children's literacy carried out in Swaziland from a socio-cultural perspective. The study joins a growing body of New Literacy Studies research into the social practices that shape children's early literacy learning and a smaller body of such work from Africa. I used evidence from four children's home and school literacy lives, systematically collected by means of in-depth ethnographic case studies and used an interpretive analytical frame of enquiry. This study breaks with previous research in Swaziland by detailing the situated ways that reading and writing happen in specific socio-cultural contexts. 2015-05-06T07:17:12Z 2015-05-06T07:17:12Z 2009 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12746 eng application/pdf School of Education Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town
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Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland
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title Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland
title_full Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland
title_fullStr Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland
title_full_unstemmed Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland
title_short Early language and literacy learning in a peripheral African setting : a study of children's participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around Manzini, Swaziland
title_sort early language and literacy learning in a peripheral african setting a study of children s participation in home and school communicative and literacy practices in and around manzini swaziland
topic Education
url http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12746
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