The Eighth International Literacy & Education Research Network Conference on
SPETSES,
GREECE
4-8 July 2001
Coordinator, Language Development Gp, Academic Development Programme, Centre for Higher Education Development, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Cultural Capital and Metalanguage for Visual Literacy: a University Case Study
Abstract:
This paper will present findings from an inquiry into the
place of the visual in the acquisition of academic literacy in
the Humanities in a South African university. Concerned that
an emphasis on the visual seemed to reproduce patterns of privilege,
I ran a pilot project with EAL students in which they took photographs
to document aspects of their lives at university. Findings from
this project suggest that the visual may have a significant place
in the acquisition of academic literacy, but that issues of production
and reception, and the metalanguage used for the analysis of
the visual mode, have important access implications.
Bionote
I have been working in the language development field since
the University of Cape Town since the mid eighties. I have taught
on various academic literacy and foundation courses in a changing
policy environment, and on courses in Applied Language Studies.
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Presentation Type
30 min. Paper
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Country
South Africa
