Chapter Changing Conceptions of Literacy: Pluriversal Literacies

«We are being stunted by a form of critical illiteracy», state Tierney, Smith and Kan, and «our global scholarship is facing a crisis of similar proportion to that of climate change […] because we are insufficiently ‘reading the world’, in the Freirean sense — acting as if we can and should be monol...

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author Perry, Mia
Ramos, Marcela
Palacios, Nancy
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description «We are being stunted by a form of critical illiteracy», state Tierney, Smith and Kan, and «our global scholarship is facing a crisis of similar proportion to that of climate change […] because we are insufficiently ‘reading the world’, in the Freirean sense — acting as if we can and should be monolingual in a world that is multilingual» (Tierney et al. 2021, 305). This chapter will briefly chart the history of formal literacy education and describe the scope of the field of research and practice today that encompasses both standardised models of reading and writing text as well as more expansive models of meaning making across many sign systems. We relate the current standardised and universal model of functional literacy to a colonial past whereby systems designed for the benefit of the urban global north were imposed upon other contexts to ensure their expansion of power and economic advantage. Pluriversality is a concept that emerges from a decolonial movement of thought that provides a counternarrative to contemporary Northern assumptions of the universal and, in Escobar’s words, to «the hegemony of modernity’s one-world ontology» (2018, 4). This chapter provides a conceptual framework of pluriversal literacies in education inclusive of, but exceeding, the literacy of print. To illustrate the opportunities of a pluriversal literacies model in education, we provide a case study of land literacy practices in agricultural education in Patía, Colombia.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1369582024-05-10T23:48:59Z Chapter Changing Conceptions of Literacy: Pluriversal Literacies Perry, Mia Ramos, Marcela Palacios, Nancy Equity Land Literacies Pluriversal Sustainability thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education «We are being stunted by a form of critical illiteracy», state Tierney, Smith and Kan, and «our global scholarship is facing a crisis of similar proportion to that of climate change […] because we are insufficiently ‘reading the world’, in the Freirean sense — acting as if we can and should be monolingual in a world that is multilingual» (Tierney et al. 2021, 305). This chapter will briefly chart the history of formal literacy education and describe the scope of the field of research and practice today that encompasses both standardised models of reading and writing text as well as more expansive models of meaning making across many sign systems. We relate the current standardised and universal model of functional literacy to a colonial past whereby systems designed for the benefit of the urban global north were imposed upon other contexts to ensure their expansion of power and economic advantage. Pluriversality is a concept that emerges from a decolonial movement of thought that provides a counternarrative to contemporary Northern assumptions of the universal and, in Escobar’s words, to «the hegemony of modernity’s one-world ontology» (2018, 4). This chapter provides a conceptual framework of pluriversal literacies in education inclusive of, but exceeding, the literacy of print. To illustrate the opportunities of a pluriversal literacies model in education, we provide a case study of land literacy practices in agricultural education in Patía, Colombia. 2024-05-10T23:48:57Z 2024-05-10T23:48:57Z 2024-04-02T15:49:29Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20240402_9791221502534_172 2704-5781 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89203 9791221502534 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/136958 eng Studies on Adult Learning and Education open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89203/1/9791221502534_19.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0253-4.19 10.36253/979-12-215-0253-4.19 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221502534 12 Florence open access
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Palacios, Nancy
Chapter Changing Conceptions of Literacy: Pluriversal Literacies
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