Dear all,
I'm trying to scope the variety of different types of literacies included in scholarly discussions. Below, I have listed the ones I have found so far. If any of You have some additional examples I could add to the list (reference would be nice) I'd delighted to hear about those.
Thanks in adavance,
Pekka
Media literacy, computer literacy, critical literacy, information literacy, game literacy, social literacy, health literacy, physical literacy, emotional literacy, network analysis literacy, financial literacy, workplace literacy, functional literacy, visual literacy, digital literacy
e-Literacies as a literacy category - see the attached pdf.
Financial Literacy, Food Literacy --> In the U.S., these are Family and Consumer Sciences Literacies, but abroad, they call them Home Economics Literacies.
Dear Pekke, I embed links to two posts that slant towards digital literacy. They refer to some of the literacies that have already been mentioned, as well as a few new ones, for instance, network literacy.
http://www.schrockguide.net/literacy-in-the-digital-age.html
http://www.techlearning.com/blogentry/11574
You may add this one: numerical & mathematical literacy (aka numeracy), as well as a few that are suggested in the following links.
http://wiki.c2.com/?KindsOfLiteracy
https://nces.ed.gov/naal/literacytypes.asp
https://infograph.venngage.com/p/10682/20-common-types-of-literacy
http://www.unesco.org/education/GMR2006/full/chapt6_eng.pdf
it will be your trip till the end of universe, literacy is tailored into everything almost and everybody got his own prospective toward it.
I'm working on my PhD project on Mobile Information literacy as a type of literacies, the approach is how smartphones changed our information seeking behaviour and what skills do we still need to gain to access information and to make use of it via smartphones.
BTW, I assume Information literacy should remain as the umbrella term for all literacies. it is all about information and cognitive attitude at the end.
Good Luck !
To contribute to the list:
This paper proposes "new literacies" that might be interesting for you
Chapter New Literacies for the Knowledge Society
I also know many contributions about "visual literacy" and "data literacy"... and some concepts also tries to integrate multiple literacies (e.g "transliteracy", "metaliteracy").
All the best,
Jerry
I would also suggest medical Drug Literacy and emotional literacy.
Racial literacy
https://www.amazon.com/Promoting-Racial-Literacy-Schools-Differences/dp/0807755044
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1030714.pdf
https://www.ted.com/talks/priya_vulchi_and_winona_guo_what_it_takes_to_be_racially_literate
What about the multiliteracies approach and the literacies therein included? Although a bit old, I think the reference may be still relevant in some fields. This brings me to the idea that literacy and the many types of literacies are not construed equally across disciplines; Educational Sciences, Applied Linguistics, Media Studies...
The New London Group. (1996). A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures. Harvard Educational Review, 66(1), 60–93. http://doi.org/10.17763/haer.66.1.17370n67v22j160u
Happy reading,
Bvc
Followers of this question might found the new open access paper about multiliteracies in the Finnish curricula by Lauri Palsa and me interesting and worth reading:
Article Multiliteracies in local curricula: Conceptual contextualisa...
Hello
I would like to know if you have a general definition of departure that you can share with me about what has been considered as 'literacy' in the academic context (qualitative research).
The point is that I believe that there should be a germ idea that permeates the different learning contexts, that is consistent with their study objectives and with their study populations. I try to understand what it means in the school context to speak of 'spatial literacy' in order to understand the evaluation mechanisms that value this reasoning, in particular positioning gender studies and their relationship with STEM disciplines.
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