This article stresses an idea that I believe most educators agree with. "The great divide in literacy is not between those who CAN read and write and those who (CANNOT). It is between those who have discovered what kinds of literacy society values and how to demonstrate their competencies in ways that earn recognition" (Meek 1991), and that literacy is entirely a matter of how reading and writing are conceived and practiced within particular social settings (Lankshear and Lawler 43).
Roberts explains that there is very little agreement among scholars about the definition of literacy. It speaks to seveal approaches to attempts in defining literacy like: QUANTITATIVE - number of years in school; QUALITATIVE - concentrates on the qualities of being a literate person; PLURALIST - multiple modes of literacy (survival, social, cultural, functional, higher order, and critical); and PARTICULARISTIC STRUCTURE -form of reading and writing.
Roberts explains that there is very little agreement among scholars about the definition of literacy. It speaks to seveal approaches to attempts in defining literacy like: QUANTITATIVE - number of years in school; QUALITATIVE - concentrates on the qualities of being a literate person; PLURALIST - multiple modes of literacy (survival, social, cultural, functional, higher order, and critical); and PARTICULARISTIC STRUCTURE -form of reading and writing.
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