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Title: | Exploring the situated literacy practices involving email in a Further Education college. | ||||
Author: | Fowler, Ellayne Margaret |
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0000 0004 2671 4407
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Awarding Body: | The Open University | ||||
Current Institution: | Open University | ||||
Date of Award: | 2008 | ||||
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This study looks at literacy practices involving the use of email in a Further Education
college. In order to explore literacy practices the study addresses how email works
as a communicative act; how email is managed at both individual and institutional
levels; what attitudes and values are attached to email and whether different groups within the college use email differently. The underpinning theoretical basis of this study is the New Literacy Studies, which
theorise literacy as social practice. Emails are explored as literacy-in-action in order
to infer the literacy practices that underpin their use. Hymes' ethnography of
communication is used to analyse emails as communicative acts. Lave and
Wenger's concept of community of practice is also drawn on in looking at different groups of practices. The predominantly qualitative· research takes the form of a case study with an
ethnographic perspective. A range of data collection instruments are used, including
questionnaire, diary, interview and compilation of a corpus of 408 emails. Analysis
includes textual analysis using categories developed from Hymes and Critical
Discourse Analysis. It is hoped that data from this research will have relevance for
literacy teaching, organizational management and IT training.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||
Qualification Name: | D.Ed. | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.502393 | DOI: | Not available | ||
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