LITERACY DISCOURSE AND PRACTICES IN DEAF

EDUCATION: THE PRIVILEGING AND

MARGINALISING OF SUBJECTIVITIES
THE PROBLEM
THE PROBLEM
THE PROBLEM
HETEROGENEITY AND DIFFERENCE
HETEROGENEITY AND DIFFERENCE

deaf Deaf
HETEROGENEITY AND DIFFERENCE

Hearing d/Deaf
parents parents
HETEROGENEITY AND DIFFERENCE

Sign Spoken
languages languages
HETEROGENEITY AND DIFFERENCE

Hearing Cochlear
aid implant
HETEROGENEITY AND DIFFERENCE
HETEROGENEITY AND DIFFERENCE
LITERACY
LITERACY
LITERACY
LITERACY
LITERACY
LITERACY
LITERACY
LITERACY
LITERACY
 LITERACY

Identity
 LITERACY

Epistemologies
 LITERACY

Materials
PATTERNS OF LITERACY
d/DEAF PEOPLE’S LITERACY
d/DEAF PEOPLE’S LITERACY
d/DEAF PEOPLE’S LITERACY
Importance of parents and teachers’
active promotion of literacy activities

Opportunities for shared reading

Active connection of 3 systems of

meaning: English, BSL and
fingerspelling
d/DEAF PEOPLE’S LITERACY
Proficient readers related to parents promoting a rich
print environment

Importance of promoting meaningful communication

between child and their parents

Discrepancies related to cultural practices of literacy at

every home

Literacy activities outside school are more complex than

what is captured by standardised assessment
d/DEAF PEOPLE’S LITERACY
Lack of reading activities centred on meaning-
making

Rich and dialogical classroom activities with written

language promote appropriation of it

As education progresses, less texts with visual cues

Restricted view of literacy

GAPS IN d/DEAF STUDENTS’ LITERACY
RESEARCH
Need of a detailed account of heterogeneous
literacy practices of d/Deaf students
GAPS IN d/DEAF STUDENTS’ LITERACY
RESEARCH
Need of a detailed account of heterogeneous
literacy practices of d/Deaf students

Their literacies seem

broader than we
previously thought!
 GAPS IN d/DEAF STUDENTS’ LITERACY
RESEARCH
Need of a studying subjective meaning ascribed
to literacy activities
 GAPS IN d/DEAF STUDENTS’ LITERACY
RESEARCH
Need of a studying subjective meaning ascribed
to literacy activities

What they believe

about literacy matters!
GAPS IN d/DEAF STUDENTS’ LITERACY
RESEARCH
Need for exploring social and material aspects
of literacy practices
GAPS IN d/DEAF STUDENTS’ LITERACY
RESEARCH
Need for exploring social and material aspects
of literacy practices

Not everything
happens in the head!
OBJECTIVES
To problematize the hierarchies of literacies in the cultural worlds of d/Deaf students

Specific objectives:
To describe d/Deaf students’ everyday literacy practices
To analyse subjective positions of d/Deaf students towards literacy practices
To critically asses d/Deaf students’ literacy practices for their learning
opportunities
To critically asses d/Deaf students’ subjective positions for their learning
opportunities
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
How are literacy activities hierarchized in the cultural worlds of d/Deaf students?

Specific questions
In which literacy activities do d/Deaf students participate in at home?
In which literacy activities do d/Deaf students participate in at school?
What kind of participation do d/Deaf students have within those literacy
activities?
How do d/Deaf students come to define themselves in relation to those literacy
activities?
What positions do d/Deaf students hold towards those literacy activities?
What consequences do d/Deaf students literacy activities and their positions
towards them have for their learning opportunities?
 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

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 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

d/Deaf students

? 16 years old

Regular school

BSL/English
 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

Photo-elicitation interview
 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

Deeper knowledge
Different knowledge
Transformative knowledge

Photo-elicitation interview
 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

Ethnographic approach
 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

Ethnographic approach

Everyday literacy practices

 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

Ethnographic approach
Brief interviews
Activities observation
Document collection
 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

Critical ethnography
 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

Critical ethnography
Thick descriptions
Literacy events
Hidden literacies
 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

Critical discourse analysis

 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

Utterance analysis
Polyphony
Deconstruction

Critical discourse analysis

 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

ELAN
 METHODOLOGICAL PROCEDURES

Sampling Data Analysis

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