The Centre for Research on Literacy - Overview Literacy is essential to being educated. It is a means for breaking with everyday experience and of acquiring broad and deep knowledge of the world. Literacy promotes overall economic and political well-being and facilitates the exercising of social and political rights.
Literacy provides alternatives for the rewarding use of leisure time.
Yet there are significant numbers of individuals who never achieve levels of literacy adequate for any of the above purposes. The establishment of a Centre For Research on Literacy in the Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta is timely. The benefits of such research include increased knowledge and understanding in an area of national and international importance. Achieving national and international status as a Centre for Research on Literacy. Attracting graduate students into a multidisciplinary graduate research centre in cooperation with all interested departments at the University of Alberta.