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Turning to Literacy

Janks, Hilary·2009·Literacy and Power
DOI 10.4324/9780203869956-1
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Literacy was harnessed to support the refuted &s;great-divide&s; theory of social anthropologists which divided primitive and modern people according to their mental abilities, pre-logical/logical, concrete/abstract, pre-literate/literate. S. Scribner and M. Cole conducted research on the Vai in Liberia in which they were unable to show that literacy produced cognitive gains. Literacy has always been dictated by the developments of technology: papyrus, parchment, quills, pencils, paper, pens, typewriters, and computers. School literacy is seen as a neutral technology and a decontextualised set of skills; what Street calls the &s;autonomous&s; model of literacy. Critical literacy practitioners began working with computer and information literacy and with media literacy, the latter interfacing with the fields of cultural studies, including popular culture, and media studies. Anne Haas Dyson has shown how characters, images and ideas from popular culture loom large in children&s;s imaginations and permeate their textual productions.

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  • Literacy has become even more essential for claiming the right to speak.

    “As social media, SMS, email, and other Web 2.0 functionalities allow them to speak by writing (Cope & Kalantzis, 2012;Jones & Hafner, 2012;Warschauer & Matuchniak, 2010), literacy has become even more essential in being able to claim the right to speak (Janks, 2010;Moje & Luke, 2009).”

    From Identity and a Model of Investment in Applied Linguistics (2015) · cites this paper as Janks, 2010

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Authors
Janks, H.
Corresponding author
Janks, Hilary
ORCID
Janks, Hilary
Venue
Literacy and Power
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2009-10-16
Pages
1-20
DOI
10.4324/9780203869956-1
OpenAlex
W3006935060
Cited by
2
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0
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2018: 1
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book chapter
Language
en
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closed
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Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Literacy, Media, and Education
  • Social Sciences › Education › Literacy and Educational Practices
  • Social Sciences › Education › Linguistics and Education Research
Keywords
literacy, critical literacy, media literacy, information literacy, computer literacy, popular culture, cultural studies

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