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ext-4a7b891a62b9b43c62790c2644152691 |
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2019-12-03 |
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abstract |
Vocational universities are increasingly becoming susceptible to pressures associated
with the phenomenon known as ‘academic drift’. Yet the specific influence of such
pressures is experienced differently at various institutional levels and by different
stakeholders in such universities. Exploring lecturers’ understanding and perceptions
of student academic writing can make visible the ways in which these pressures are
realised, for example, in the types of writing given value and writing pedagogies
deemed suitable in the context of the vocational university. In this paper, we report
on an ethnographically shaped study exploring lecturers’ writing pedagogies and perceptions
of students as academic writers at a South African vocational university. The study
analytically illustrated how wider socio-political, regulatory and ideological framings
of these universities were implicated in lecturers’ writing practices and pedagogies.
The study found that lecturers and students were generally constricted by narrow vocationalist
agendas, which reinforced negative conceptions of students as academic writers. Our
findings suggest that while the explicit impact of academic drift drivers was minimally
felt at the undergraduate diploma level of study in our research site, this appeared
to close off the potential for writing to act as a means to facilitate students’ epistemic
access to their disciplines. |
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peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1029756 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1029757 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1029758 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1029759 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1029760 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1029761 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1029762 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Article |
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label |
Coleman, Lynn and Tuck, Jackie (2019). ’We do not have a writing culture’: exploring
the nature of ‘academic drift’ through a study of lecturer perspectives on student
writing in a vocational university. Journal of Vocational Education & Training (Early
Access). |
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ext-82d97d3d46da72def3ef996d0ad0810c |
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Title |
’We do not have a writing culture’: exploring the nature of ‘academic drift’ through
a study of lecturer perspectives on student writing in a vocational university |
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oro |