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‘NEVER READING AND WRITING’ IN A TEXTUALLY MEDIATED WORLD
Roz Ivanič,
Literacy Research Centre,
Lancaster University
Literacies for Learning in Further Education
Project team includes
David Barton
Angela Brzeski
James Carmichael
Richard Edwards
Zoe Fowler
Joyce Gaechter
Roz Ivanič
Tracey Kennedy
Greg Mannion
Kate Miller
Candice Satchwell
June Smith
Sarah Wilcock
Becoming a Further Education student
Literate identity as defined by tests
The Painting and Decorating NVQ Level One Course
Paul
Researching and analysing literacy practices
‘Never reading and writing’
I think it’s the actual, the sitting down and having to concentrate all the time on the piece of paper and the words, that just look so plain on this piece of paper, do you know what I mean? I think it’s the very, just how plain things are when you’re reading and writing.
‘Never reading and writing’
‘Vernacular’ literacies
Social participation
Organising life
Private leisure
Sense making
Documenting life
Personal communication
(Barton and Hamilton p. 248 – 250)
Organising life
1. Shopping2. Money management3. Arranging holidays and
other travel4. Home ownership 5. Food6. TV viewing7. Using public transport8. Health9. Pregnancy and childcare 10.Junk mail
11.Moving house12.Looking after animals13.Employment14.Keeping organised,
appointments and other records
15.Car ownership and driving16.Home improvements17.Career development18.Attending college19. Identity and residency
status
Private leisure
1. Dog breeding2. Sport3. Joining a gym4. Listening to music5. Playing an instrument6. Reading magazines7. Supporting a Football team8. Watching TV9. Reading newspapers10.Reading comic books and
children’s books 11.Reading factual books 12.Playing computer games13.Cars 14.Going out with friends15. Horoscopes
16.Going to the cinema17.Collecting and watching films18.Collecting19.Reading books20.Keeping the computer ‘healthy’21.Searching the web out of
interest (?)22.Playing cards23. ‘Writing stuff’24.Keeping a diary25.Going to dance school26.Maintaining a lifestyle /identity27.Doing puzzles e.g.
Wordsearches)28.BMX biking29.Genealogy
The complexity of students’ everyday literacy practices
Example: From social participation to private leisure:
Researching a Family Tree
• Purposeful
• Situated in times, places and actions
• Participative and interactive
• Talk around texts
• Multiple technologies, modes and text-types
• Drawing on a wide range of micro literacy practices
Literacy practices, identities and literate subjectivities
• The discoursal construction of identity
• Agency
• The (re-) construction of literate subjectivities
• The role of research in awareness-raising
‘NEVER READING AND WRITING’ IN A TEXTUALLY MEDIATED WORLD
Roz Ivanič,
Literacy Research Centre,
Lancaster University