Literacy mediations and mediators in theescuela dominicalof a Gitano evangelist church

In this paper we examine discourse and interaction during Saturday morning religious instruction classes in a Gitano (Spanish Romani) evangelist church. The focus is on adults as literacy mediators for the children in the process of learning ways to use and interpret the Bible. The analysis centres...

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Autores: Poveda , David, Cano , Ana, Palomares Valera, Manuel
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2006
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Repositorio:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM
OAI Identifier:oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/41410
Acesso em linha:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457820600715547
https://hdl.handle.net/10578/41410
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Escuela dominical
Gypsy evangelical church
Literacy mediations
Mediators
Sunday school
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Resumo:In this paper we examine discourse and interaction during Saturday morning religious instruction classes in a Gitano (Spanish Romani) evangelist church. The focus is on adults as literacy mediators for the children in the process of learning ways to use and interpret the Bible. The analysis centres on two aspects: (1) the forms of textuality that are developed around the Bible, and (2) the role that the adults gender or institutional position play in the forms of interactions and authority relations that are established with the children and the texts. These results should help revise conceptions of Gitano culture as exclusively oral and they also illustrate how the social, institutional and interactional orders of learning and discourse are interrelated in a non-formal religious setting.