Abstract:The history of literacy as a regular, significant, and sometimes central concern for historians seems in 1985 firmly established. As the inclusion of an article on the history of literacy in a special commemorative issue such as this suggests, the active thrust and exceptional growth in historical literacy studies over the past decade and a half has propelled the subject to prominence.Prominence, of course, has been to enormous benefit, inside the academy and on occasion beyond its walls. Nevertheless, this si… Show more
“…One might be fully comfortable with notions of literacy as only including standardized forms of language and uniform skills of parochialism -the abilities to read and write print-centralizing alpha-numeric characters only. Yet, in this comfort of simplicity, one might miss how literacies evolve -their ontological development -as in the ways that people marked time and events (and hence made meaning) by collecting objects such as sticks and stones carved stains on walls to reveal and record history; and invented scripts to stand in place of sounds (Graff, 1986).…”
Section: 'I Am the Mic': Figured Meanings In New Literacy Constructions Of Black Femalesmentioning
The things we call 'technologies' are ways of building order in our world. Many technological devices and systems important in everyday life contain possibilities for many different ways of ordering human activity. (Matlow, 2000, p. 167)
“…One might be fully comfortable with notions of literacy as only including standardized forms of language and uniform skills of parochialism -the abilities to read and write print-centralizing alpha-numeric characters only. Yet, in this comfort of simplicity, one might miss how literacies evolve -their ontological development -as in the ways that people marked time and events (and hence made meaning) by collecting objects such as sticks and stones carved stains on walls to reveal and record history; and invented scripts to stand in place of sounds (Graff, 1986).…”
Section: 'I Am the Mic': Figured Meanings In New Literacy Constructions Of Black Femalesmentioning
The things we call 'technologies' are ways of building order in our world. Many technological devices and systems important in everyday life contain possibilities for many different ways of ordering human activity. (Matlow, 2000, p. 167)
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