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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"literacy myth"”.
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Geopolitics of Digital Literacies: Accounting for Myths and Realities
… in the One-Third World. Building on the work of literacy studies and computers and writing scholarship, I define and critique "the digital literacy myth"-a public discourse wherein digital literacies and their technologies are portrayed as inherently democratic for individuals and nations, and …
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Stock Stories Versus Counterstories: A Contemporary Retelling and Centering of Disenfranchised Narratives
<p>This study examines the literacy narratives of disfranchised educators. It unveils the toll the “literacy myth” has taken on their educational pursuits in American institutions. Through these published narratives, the study explores the ways in which the Eurocentric ideology dominates academic …
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Dropouts from literacy : an analysis of the meanings which adult learners attach to the fact of abandoning their training programme
… been disappointed. These learners believe the "literacy myth" that literacy, as a set of skills one can acquire, will result in significant improvements in one's life. They also equate literacy with education, and although they experience none of the benefits that are supposed to accrue to the …
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Beyond hope: Rhetorics of mobility, possibility, and literacy
… bring with them a deep faith in the power of literacy to rectify social inequalities and improve their students’ social and economic standing. It is this faith—this hope for change—that draws some writing teachers to locations of social and economic hardship. I am interested in how teachers …