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" Literacy is not simply knowing how to read and write a particular script but applying this knowledge for specific purposes in specific contexts of use. "
Spelling and Society: The Culture and Politics of Orthography around the World - Page 13
by Mark Sebba - 2007
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Reading-to-Write: Exploring a Cognitive and Social Process

Linda Flower, Victoria Stein, John Ackerman, Margaret J. Kantz, Kathleen McCormick, Wayne C. Peck - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 280 pages
...patterned to use "technology and knowledge to accomplish tasks." Literacy as a whole is the sum of this "set of socially organized practices which make use...and a technology for producing and disseminating it" (p. 236). Like them, we are in search of a "framework which situates cognitive skills in culturally...
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Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change

Jeffrey T. Grabill - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2001 - 232 pages
...then, consists of three components: technology, knowledge, and [cognitive] skills" (p. 236). Thus, they approach literacy as a set of "socially organized...and a technology for producing and disseminating it" (p. 236). The connection between Scribner and Cole and socio-cognitive work in rhetoric and composition...
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Characterizing Literacy: A Study of Western and Indian Literacy Experiences

R Narasimhan - Education - 2004 - 204 pages
...practice, then, consists of three components: technology, knowledge, and skills. "Literacy" is defined as a set of socially organized practices which make...and a technology for producing and disseminating it. As examples of such socialized practices in the case of the Vai literate, they list, letter writing,...
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