Being and becoming a student: an investigation into how a pedagogic approach built on collaborative participation in academic literacy practices supports students' academic practice, knowlege and identity
Set in the context of a Post-92 university college Education Studies department, this thesis investigates how new undergraduates might be supported in the transition to Higher Education. It describes an intervention informed by research into Academic Literacies that was undertaken in a first year, f...
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| description | Set in the context of a Post-92 university college Education Studies department, this thesis investigates how new undergraduates might be supported in the transition to Higher Education. It describes an intervention informed by research into Academic Literacies that was undertaken in a first year, first semester module. The intervention aimed to scaffold participation in academic practice, and in particular academic literacy practice, in collaborative workshops within the context of the module content. The methodological approach combines action research with aspects of ethnography to produce ‘ethnographic action research’. Drawing on the work of Lave & Wenger, students working in groups are conceptualised as academic student communities of practice, and audio recordings of students engaged in collaborative activities provide evidence of their lived experience of the module in three domains: what they do; what they know; and how they position themselves in relation to academic practice.
The findings show how talk about practice, within the context of participation in practice, is instrumental to change in all three domains: the negotiation of distinctly ‘academic’ ways of working in groups; the construction of meaning in the relationship between what is known about academic practice and what is done; and, the construction of the self as academic. I conclude that Higher Education pedagogical arrangements need to build communities that talk about practice and consider how such an approach responds to future challenges. |
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| spelling | nottingham-130072025-02-28T11:22:35Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13007/ Being and becoming a student: an investigation into how a pedagogic approach built on collaborative participation in academic literacy practices supports students' academic practice, knowlege and identity Tapp, Jane Set in the context of a Post-92 university college Education Studies department, this thesis investigates how new undergraduates might be supported in the transition to Higher Education. It describes an intervention informed by research into Academic Literacies that was undertaken in a first year, first semester module. The intervention aimed to scaffold participation in academic practice, and in particular academic literacy practice, in collaborative workshops within the context of the module content. The methodological approach combines action research with aspects of ethnography to produce ‘ethnographic action research’. Drawing on the work of Lave & Wenger, students working in groups are conceptualised as academic student communities of practice, and audio recordings of students engaged in collaborative activities provide evidence of their lived experience of the module in three domains: what they do; what they know; and how they position themselves in relation to academic practice. The findings show how talk about practice, within the context of participation in practice, is instrumental to change in all three domains: the negotiation of distinctly ‘academic’ ways of working in groups; the construction of meaning in the relationship between what is known about academic practice and what is done; and, the construction of the self as academic. I conclude that Higher Education pedagogical arrangements need to build communities that talk about practice and consider how such an approach responds to future challenges. 2013-03-15 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en arr https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13007/1/TAPP_e-theses.pdf Tapp, Jane (2013) Being and becoming a student: an investigation into how a pedagogic approach built on collaborative participation in academic literacy practices supports students' academic practice, knowlege and identity. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Undergraduates books and reading group work in education academic achievement |
| spellingShingle | Undergraduates books and reading group work in education academic achievement Tapp, Jane Being and becoming a student: an investigation into how a pedagogic approach built on collaborative participation in academic literacy practices supports students' academic practice, knowlege and identity |
| title | Being and becoming a student: an investigation into how a pedagogic approach built on collaborative participation in academic literacy practices supports students' academic practice, knowlege and identity |
| title_full | Being and becoming a student: an investigation into how a pedagogic approach built on collaborative participation in academic literacy practices supports students' academic practice, knowlege and identity |
| title_fullStr | Being and becoming a student: an investigation into how a pedagogic approach built on collaborative participation in academic literacy practices supports students' academic practice, knowlege and identity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Being and becoming a student: an investigation into how a pedagogic approach built on collaborative participation in academic literacy practices supports students' academic practice, knowlege and identity |
| title_short | Being and becoming a student: an investigation into how a pedagogic approach built on collaborative participation in academic literacy practices supports students' academic practice, knowlege and identity |
| title_sort | being and becoming a student: an investigation into how a pedagogic approach built on collaborative participation in academic literacy practices supports students' academic practice, knowlege and identity |
| topic | Undergraduates books and reading group work in education academic achievement |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13007/ |