Action Literacy: Position, Movement, and Consciousness

Autor/in	Waite, Stacey
Titel	Action Literacy: Position, Movement, and Consciousness
Quelle	In: Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 17 (2007) 2, S.107-121 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0882-4843
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Critical Theory; Politics; Reading Ability; Functional Literacy; Personal Narratives; Feminism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kritische Theorie; Politik; Reading competence; Lesekompetenz; Funktionale Kompetenz; Erlebniserzählung; Feminismus
Abstract	In this article, the author discusses action literacy, and suggests that identifying literacy as political, ideological, and connected to power structures and abuses of power is not enough for a proponent of active literacy and critical pedagogy. Action literacy is a literacy of positionality that highlights the importance of movement and flux. It is at this juncture, the place where one position meets another to create a strong and uncertain reader, where people find not only a person's ability to read but also a person's ability to self-reflect--on identity, on environment, and on nation. Political literacy is not, she contends, merely the idea that access to functional literacy is political or that the ability to read strongly is connected to politics; political action literacy aligns itself with a critical politics that concerns itself with nuance, qualification, and movement (often in the form of uncertainty). A more literate world, then, may require a world more conscious of its own fluidity--perhaps a more "androgynous" world, one not wavering between two binaries (male/female, literate/illiterate, read/write) but wavering among the immeasurable number of spaces there are to inhabit, explore, and read from. This does require action; it requires activism; it requires extreme political care and movement from those teaching and shaping literacy pedagogy. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10