This would be best accomplished through peer and mentor observation, peer and student dialogue, and self-reflection. I just want to stress other avenues, which also contribute greatly to my success. Learner Centered Knowledge 1. Literacy to me is the ability to negotiate meaning through oral, textual, and or pictorial devices to accomplish some social or individual end. Literacy is a vehicle of action and empowerment, preserving history and preparing us for tomorrow s demands and challenges.
Literacy is communication of intent and sentiment.
Those whose literacy lags behind the norm succeed less often, there-by damaging to some degree their ability to accomplish academic and financial goals. The highly literate populous in schools can be found in the honors classes, on the debate and academic decathlon teams. Literacy outside of schools usually doesn t get the recognition it deserves. Those in power also maintain boundaries in that literacy is a means of maintaining that power and dominance. Literacy acts as an equalizer when it allows economically, culturally, politically and linguistically stratified groups equal access to information.