Holding on to Literacies: Older Adult Narratives of Literacy and Agency

Rumsey, Suzanne K.

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“…An integral component of health literacy is low-literacy [8]. Literacy is a universal skill that allows one the ability to acquire knowledge or understanding [9,10]. For this review literacy is defined as the ability to read, write and use numbers [11, p. 185] at a level of proficiency which allows for functioning in society and the achievement of one's goals [12].…”

Section: A Scoping Review On the Use Of Visual Aids In Health Education Materials For Persons With Low-literacy Levels 1 Introductionmentioning

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A scoping review of the use of visual aids in health education materials for persons with low-literacy levels

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Dada

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Patient Education and Counseling

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Section: A Scoping Review On the Use Of Visual Aids In Health Education Materials For Persons With Low-literacy Levels 1 Introductionmentioning

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A scoping review of the use of visual aids in health education materials for persons with low-literacy levels

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Dada

Bastable

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Patient Education and Counseling

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“…Although the studies come from multiple disciplines, they all reject the notion of increasing passivity in old age. Instead, they reveal how older adults engage in a wide variety of everyday literacy practices as a way of ‘holding on to dignity, independence, and agency’ (Rumsey, 2018, p. 99). They show, for instance, how the recent proliferation of audiobooks enables literacy participation for older adults with vision problems and low print literacy skills (Poerio & Totterdell, 2020).…”

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“…However, there is only limited research into the everyday literacy practices of older adults, particularly as they relate to thriving, despite recent publications calling for more attention to this subject (Lenstra, 2017; Rasi et al, 2019; Yamashita et al, 2020). The vast majority of the literature focuses on health literacy (Arcury et al, 2020) and digital technology for seniors (LoBuono et al, 2020), but there are exceptions (Adams‐Price & Morse, 2018; Allison & Smith, 2020; Choi, 2019; Poerio & Totterdell, 2020; Rosenberg, 2018; Rothbauer & Dalmer, 2018; Rumsey, 2018). An additional exception is our reporting on elder ‘Gigi’ (Heydon et al, 2020) and ways in which her daily literacies allowed her to circumvent the physical and social confines of being a resident in an assisted living facility, accommodate for changes to her memory and body and keep her connected to passions that had sustained her across her lifetime (e.g., her faith, politics and children).…”

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The literacies‐as‐events in the day of a life of an octogenarian: literacies of thriving as habits of a lifetime and (im)materially constituted

Heydon

Stooke

2023

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Much is known about the literacies of early life, adolescence and some aspects of adulthood such as workplace literacies, but there has been a dearth of attention to the literacies of late life. The invisibility of these literacies has the potential to skew how curricula, pedagogy and policy developers understand and plan for literacies that can sustain people across the life course. It also can play into deficit discourses of elders, such as those prevalent during the COVID‐19 pandemic, that have led to a parallel pandemic of ageism. To reverse this invisibility, this study aimed to bring to light the everyday literacies of thriving elders and the people, places and things involved therein. Through a sociomaterial orientation to literacies and adoption of a modified Day‐in‐the‐Life methodology, this paper reports on the everyday literacies of ‘Gina’, an octogenarian woman who resided in an assisted living residence in the United States and self‐identified as thriving. The study identified six key literacies‐as‐events in Gina's day that engaged a plethora of (im)material constituents such as memories, art materials and novels and created opportunities for the (re)invention of time and space. Lessons from Gina's day suggest what might be possible in/through literacies at all ages.

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“…U potrazi za odgovorom zašto manjine same nisu više uključene u procese zaštite NKN, treba izvojiti koncept koji bi Suzan Kesler Ramzi nazvala heritage literacy, govoreći o tome koliko je neki pripadnik zajednice "pismen" u pogledu prepoznavanja i interpretacije onoga što smatra svojim nasleđem (Rumsey 2018). Nije, da naglasimo, upitno to da li ispitanici umeju da prepoznaju ono što je definisano kao nasleđe, već da li ga tako označavaju.…”

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The Possibilities and Obstacles to Creating an Inclusive Register of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina – An Anthropological Analysis

Ćuković

Milenković

2020

EAP / IEA

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Mogućnosti i prepreke za kreiranje Inkluzivnogregistra nematerijalnog kulturnog nasleđa AP Vojvodine -antropološka analiza * Apstrakt:U radu se razmatra trenutno stanje institucionalne prakse zaštite nematerijalnog kulturnog nasleđa (NKN) u odnosu na ideju, iznetu u antropološkoj literaturi, o neophodnosti uspostavljanja inkluzivnog registra NKN, na teritoriji cele Republike Srbije i posebno za AP Vojvodinu. S obzirom na principe Uneskove Konvencije o zaštiti NKN i prateće Operativne smernice za njeno sprovođenje, etnička atribucija nasleđa, predložena kao rešenje problema podzastupljenosti manjinskog nasleđa u državnom registru, analitički se pokazuje kao moguće, mada nedovoljno. Iako kreiranje paralelnih registara nije onemogućeno ni Uneskovom metodologijom niti globalnom kulturnom politikom, postojeća Mreža zaštite, kao i problem podzastupljenosti manjinskih identiteta, ne bi bili rešeni na način koji od antropologije, a posebno od primenjene etnologije, ne bi tražio trenutno prevelika teorijska i moralna odricanja. Analiza nesklada između teorijskog aparata antropologije, prakse primene etnologije u sistemu zaštite, pravnog okvira zaštite nacionalnih manjina i rezultata kvalitativnog istraživanja među manjinskim zajednicama, ukazuju na neophodnost daljeg međusobnog prilagođavanja nauke, administracije i nevladinog sektora kroz međusektorsku saradnju.Ključne reči: nematerijalno kulturno nasleđe, Vojvodina, Srbija, manjinske grupe, manjinska prava, kulturni identiteti, inkluzija, multikulturalizam, interkulturalnost * Članak sa projekta 177017 "Identitetske politike Evropske Unije: Prilagođavanej i primena u Republici Srbiji" koji Ministarstvo prosvete, nauke i tehnologškog razvoja finansira na Filozofskom fakultetu Univerziteta u Beogradu i projekta ERASMUS+ "Žan Mone modul Antropologija Evropske unije" na Odeljenju za etnologiju i antropologiju istog fakulteta.

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Holding on to Literacies: Older Adult Narratives of Literacy and Agency

Cited by 7 publications

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A scoping review of the use of visual aids in health education materials for persons with low-literacy levels

A scoping review of the use of visual aids in health education materials for persons with low-literacy levels

The literacies‐as‐events in the day of a life of an octogenarian: literacies of thriving as habits of a lifetime and (im)materially constituted

The Possibilities and Obstacles to Creating an Inclusive Register of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina – An Anthropological Analysis

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