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HELTASA conference, 2011 – day 3

Dec 2, 2011

in Conference, Education, Research, Technology

academic literacy, action research, courage, critical friendship, difficult dialogues, digital stories, digital storytelling, generosity, heltasa, heltasa11, heltasa2011, higher education learning and teaching association of south africa, jack whitehead, learner-centred, lec-torials, lived experiences, nelson mandela metropolitan university, port elizabeth, reflection, self-study, trust

Today was the last day of the HELTASA 2011 conference. It was a challenging and stimulating exchange of ideas that I really enjoyed. Thank you to everyone who was there and who I learned from. Crossing (some) traditional borders Prof Delia Marshall There needs to be wider social, historical, ethical and environmental dimensions of…
How do students perceive academic literacy?

May 30, 2011

in Assessment, Assignments, Ethics, Students

academic literacy, cheating, citation, plagiarism, referencing, research

Narrative means towards literacy understandings: exploring transformations within literacies and migrating identities Last week I attended a short seminar by Dr. Catherine Hutchings from UCT, who presented some of the results of her PhD study looking at academic literacy and student identity. Here are some notes I took during the seminar. How do students develop…