Literacy
Literacy is popularly understood as an ability to read and write in at least one method of writing, an understanding reflected by mainstream dictionaries. Since the 1980s, however, literacy researchers have maintained that defining literacy in this way misses the complex ways reading and writing happens in a specific context and in tandem with the values associated with that context.The updated view that literacy always involves social and cultural elements is reflected in UNESCO's stipulation that literacy is an "ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts." Modern attention to …
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The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file of correspondence and reports concerning the foreign policy of Bulgaria. The documents cover a Bulgarian statement issued to the United Nations in response to a report on the …
the homeland of the Slavic alphabet, of Slavic literacy and culture... [which] gave us a powerful weapon …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
undertakings - from agrarian reform to the teaching of literacy. For all the different circumstances of time and …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
Poland'1 Campaign about the plight of the Polish Literacy Critic and well-known dissident intellectual …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
I L E N T T A L 5- I I drive for universal literacy; and against corruption too, though this could …
The National Archives · 1 January 1981 French
A file of correspondence and reports concerning the political situation in Albania. The documents cover the death of the Albanian premier, Mehmet Shehu; the validity of official claims that Shehu's …
i c h t h e l o s t achievement of universal literacy especially of the traditionally Sferbo- n u … /it was admitted "that there went. - there), literacy (shamefacedly are "cultural" reasons as Well: …
The National Archives · 1 January 1981 German
A file of correspondence and reports concerning the position of the church in East Germany. The documents cover events at Evangelical synods in East Germany; the position and administration of …
continuing priority in the the young adults with literacy problems ciliation work in Ireland future will …
The National Archives · 1 January 1979 Portuguese
A file containing documents concerning relations between the Soviet Union and the Middle East. Subjects covered in the file include highly critical Soviet media coverage of the Camp David Accords, …
on serious local conflicts with its policy of literacy training and agrarian reform. In January 1979 …
The National Archives · 1 January 1978 French
A file of correspondence and reports concerning Soviet interests in Africa. The documents include contributions from British diplomatic officials to a draft paper examining Soviet technical and educational assistance as …
too pessimistic to speculate that increasing literacy may help Soviet efforts in the future. My impression … educational effort. Social factors such as increasing literacy and urbanization may also enable Soviet efforts …
