Academic Discourse and Literacy Narratives as "Equipment for Living"

Academic Discourse and Literacy Narratives as "Equipment for Living"

In his article "Academic Discourse and Narratives of Literacy as 'Equipment for Living'" Kris Rutten discusses practices of academic discourse and argues that students entering higher education have to become part of a specific community of institutional discourse. Rutten claims that narratives of and about literacy — narratives that revolve around issues dealing with language and the acquisiti...

Apprenticeship reinvented: Cognition, discourse and implications for academic literacy

Among educational theorists and applied linguists sharing a common concern with the learning and teaching of literacy, there exist divergent understandings of the term ‘apprenticeship’. The more widespread and influential understanding is more precisely classified as ‘cognitive apprenticeship’, denoting a theory of learning that originated in North America in the late 1980s and which emphasises...

Video Games as Equipment for Living

In their article "Video Games as Equipment for Living" Ronald Soetaert, Jeroen Bourgonjon, and Kris Rutten postulate that with the emergence of new media there is need of a re-evaluation of all modes of communication and the ways in which literacy is conceptualized. Drawing on the concept of multi-literacy they suggest a rhetorical/ anthropological meta-perspective to describe human beings as s...

Literacy and development as discourse, cognition or as both?

Commenting on R&T’s ‘Developing Linguistic Literacy’ is not an easy task. Their attempt addresses precisely the right questions, in all their complexities and breadth, centring and bundling these questions in strategic and potentially novel ways, and thereby exploring new territories and encouraging investigators to enter these territories. However, I still feel left with a sense of incompleten...

Digital Literacy as a Prerequisite for Achieving Good Academic Performance