Working with Academic Literacies
Case Studies Towards Transformative Practice
Published on 4. November 2015
442 pages
978-1-60235-763-1 (ISBN)
Description
The editors and contributors to this collection explore what it means to adopt an "academic literacies" approach in policy and pedagogy. Transformative practice is illustrated through case studies and critical commentaries from teacher-researchers working in a range of higher education contexts-from undergraduate to postgraduate levels, across disciplines, and spanning geopolitical regions including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cataluña, Finland, France, Ireland, Portugal, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Theresa Lillis | Kathy Harrington | Mary R. Lea
Working with Academic Literacies
Case Studies Towards Transformative Practice
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11/2015
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Content
- Front cover
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Theresa Lillis, Kathy Harrington, Mary R. Lea and Sally Mitchell
- Section 1 Transforming Pedagogies of Academic Writing and Reading
- Introduction to Section 1
- Chapter 1 A Framework for Usable Pedagogy: Case Studies Towards Accessibility, Criticality and Visibility
- Julio Gimenez and Peter Thomas
- Chapter 2 Working With Power: A Dialogue about Writing Support Using Insights from Psychotherapy
- Lisa Clughen and Matt Connell
- Chapter 3 An Action Research Intervention Towards Overcoming "Theory Resistance" in Photojournalism Students
- Jennifer Good
- Chapter 4 Student-Writing Tutors: Making Sense of "Academic Literacies"
- Joelle Adams
- Chapter 5 "Hidden Features" and "Overt Instruction" in Academic Literacy Practices: A Case Study in Engineering
- Adriana Fischer
- Chapter 6 Making Sense of my Thesis: Master's Level Thesis Writing as Constellation of Joint Activities
- Kathrin Kaufhold
- Chapter 7 Thinking Creatively About Research Writing
- Cecile Badenhorst, Cecilia Moloney, Jennifer Dyer, Janna Rosales and Morgan Murray
- Chapter 8 Disciplined Voices, Disciplined Feelings: Exploring Constraints and Choices in a Thesis Writing Circle
- Kate Chanock, Sylvia Whitmore and Makiko Nishitani
- Reflections 1 How Can the Text Be Everything? Reflecting on Academic Life and Literacies
- Sally Mitchell talking with Mary Scott
- Section 2 Transforming the Work of Teaching
- Introduction to Section 2
- Chapter 9 Opening up The Curriculum: Moving from The Normative to The Transformative in Teachers' Understandings of Disciplinary Literacy Practices
- Cecilia Jacobs
- Chapter 10 Writing Development, Co-Teaching and Academic Literacies: Exploring the Connections
- Julian Ingle and Nadya Yakovchuk
- Chapter 11 Transformative and Normative? Implications for Academic Literacies Research in Quantitative Disciplines
- Moragh Paxton and Vera Frith
- Chapter 12 Learning from Lecturers: What Disciplinary Practice Can Teach Us About "Good" Student Writing
- Maria Leedham
- RefLections 2 Thinking Critically and Negotiating Practices in the Disciplines
- David Russell in conversation with Sally Mitchell
- Chapter 13 Academic Writing in an ELF Environment: Standardization, Accommodation-or Transformation?
- Laura McCambridge
- Chapter 14 "Doing Something that's Really Important": Meaningful Engagement as a Resource for Teachers' Transformative Work with Student Writers in the Disciplines
- Jackie Tuck
- Chapter 15 The Transformative Potential of Laminating Trajectories: Three Teachers' Developing Pedagogical Practices and Identities
- Kevin Roozen, Rebecca Woodard, Sonia Kline and Paul Prior
- Chapter 16 Marking the Boundaries: Knowledge and Identity in Professional Doctorates
- Jane Creaton
- Reflections 3 What's at Stake in Different Traditions? Les Littéracies Universitaires and Academic Literacies
- Isabelle Delcambre in conversation with Christiane Donahue
- Section 3
- Transforming Resources, Genres and Semiotic Practices
- Introduction to Section 3
- Chapter 17 Genre as a Pedagogical Resource at University
- Fiona English
- Chapter 18 How Drawing Is Used to Conceptualize and Communicate Design Ideas in Graphic Design: Exploring Scamping Through a Literacy Practice Lens
- Lynn Coleman
- Chapter 19 "There is a Cage Inside My Head and I Cannot Let Things Out": an epistemology of collaborative journal writing
- Fay Stevens
- Chapter 20 Blogging to Create Multimodal Reading and Writing Experiences in Postmodern Human Geographies
- Claire Penketh and Tasleem Shakur
- Chapter 21 Working with Grammar as a Tool for Making Meaning
- Gillian Lazar and Beverley Barnaby
- Chapter 22 Digital Posters-Talking Cycles for Academic Literacy
- Diane Rushton, Cathy Malone and Andrew Middleton
- Chapter 23 Telling Stories: Investigating the Challenges to International Students' Writing Through Personal Narrative
- Helen Bowstead
- Chapter 24 Digital Writing as Transformative: Instantiating Academic Literacies in Theory and Practice
- Colleen McKenna
- Reflections 4 Looking at Academic Literacies from a Composition Frame: From Spatial to Spatio-temporal Framing of Difference
- Bruce Horner in conversation with Theresa Lillis
- Section 4 Transforming Institutional Framings of Academic Writing
- Introduction to Section 4
- Chapter 25 Transforming Dialogic Spaces in an "Elite" Institution: Academic Literacies, the Tutorial and High-Achieving Students
- Corinne Boz
- Chapter 26 The Political Act of Developing Provision for Writing in the Irish Higher Education Context
- Lawrence Cleary and Íde O'Sullivan
- Chapter 27 Building Research Capacity through an AcLits-Inspired Pedagogical Framework
- Lia Blaj-Ward
- Chapter 28 Academic Literacies at the Institutional Interface: A Prickly Conversation Around Thorny Issues
- Joan Turner
- Reflections 5 Revisiting the Question of Transformation in Academic Literacies: The Ethnographic Imperative
- Brian Street in conversation with Mary R. Lea and Theresa Lillis
- Chapter 29 Resisting the Normative? Negotiating Multilingual Identities in a Course for First Year Humanities Students in Catalonia, Spain
- Angels Oliva-Girbau and Marta Milian Gubern
- Chapter 30 Academic Literacies and the Employability Curriculum: Resisting Neoliberal Education?
- Catalina Neculai
- Chapter 31 A Cautionary Tale about a Writing Course for Schools
- Kelly Peake and Sally Mitchell
- Reflections 6 "With writing, you are not expected to come from your home": Dilemmas of Belonging
- Lucia Thesen
- Ac Lits Say .
- List of contributors
- Back cover
