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'No goats in the mother city': using Symbolic Objects to help students talk about diversity and change
2007
English in Education
This paper reports on a first year project in a South African engineering foundation programme which attempted to bring a cultural studies perspective to teaching academic literacy. Students identify and investigate everyday objects that have symbolic meanings in their communities. Objects are seen as catalysts for enabling student narratives to emerge, and are a way of exploring the tensions between convention and change in cultural practices. A project such as these breaks disciplinary
doi:10.1111/j.1754-8845.2007.tb00806.x
fatcat:s46jjucj2na6hfc2n2sflcansm