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dc.contributor.authorWittek, Anne Line
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-08T13:46:14Z
dc.date.available2017-09-08T13:46:14Z
dc.date.created2013-10-30T09:23:52Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationOutlines : Critical Social Studies. 2012, 14 (1), 73-94.nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn1399-5510
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2453815
dc.description.abstractA whole range of resources are introduced to students in higher education. These are picked up and developed by them individually and in collaboration with other actors. This text investigates these complex and multifaceted processes, and focuses in particular on possible functions of “writing for learning” in these processes. The questions at stake are: How can the relationship between writing and meaning making in an educational context be conceptualized from a dialogical perspective and what methodological entrances can be used for the purpose of investigating it? A dialogical perspective frames the text theoretically. Processes of writing in educational programs involve transformation and re-contextualisation of resources or tools. A range of signs, symbols and words are brought into play both at a collective and an individual level in and through student writing. I will suggest ways of conceptualizing the practices that students engage in to produce texts as well as ways in which writing practices gain their meanings and function as dynamic elements of specific cultural settings. I argue that these analytical entrances can contribute to bringing about important nuances to research on writing. Empirically, the article reports on a study investigating how portfolio writing worked as a tool for learning in a nursing program. Two student groups were followed during one academic year. The empirical study identified how activities of writing sat a whole range of different tools like theories, concepts, cultural, as well as professional norms and guidelines into play. The data set consists of audiotaped observations, field notes, submitted portfolios and other relevant documents. A total of 44 episodes relevant for the research question were selected for analysis, and the following categories where applied; themes discussed, tools set into play and patterns of interactions. The article concludes that writing can form a most important tool in student trajectories of meaning making. However, to make it work for academic and professional purposes, there is a need for students to gain in-depth knowledge of how to deal with the acquired genre and the conventional characteristics of their field.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.titleThe activity of Writing for Learning in a nursing program – trajectories of meaning makingnb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber73-94nb_NO
dc.source.volume14nb_NO
dc.source.journalOutlines : Critical Social Studiesnb_NO
dc.source.issue1nb_NO
dc.identifier.cristin1061513
cristin.unitcode222,80,6,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for pedagogikk og skoleutvikling
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