Szwed lists a few elements of literacy which are text, context, motivation, participants, and function. Out of the elements, I found motivation to stand out among them. motivation is the thing that encourages an individual to pursue something and in the context of literacy, it can also provide someone with the energy to read and write something that they may otherwise would not.<\/p>\n
Szwed recommends ethnography for the study of literacy. According to him, the methods used in the study of cultures of different peoples and societies are “the only means for finding out what literacy really is.” (427). Szwed recommends this method because of its ability to examine and study literacy within the bounds of the everyday lives of people. Ethnography helps to establish context for specific cultures of people to see how best literacy will be defined. Szwed says “It is the relationship between school and the outside world that I think must be observed” (427)<\/p>\n
When Szwed states “\u201cwe must come to terms with the lives of people without patronizing them\u201d (427) He means that because we received many ideas that foster distrust among different societies, we have to realize our biases when studying different peoples.<\/p>\n
If I was a teacher at a bronx high school, it would be important to know how the individual students live their lives. Assumptions could be made based on the location of the school but for a education and literacy to really be effected.<\/p>\n
5. According to Elizabeth Baker, the sociocultural perspective looks at literacy as something to be examined within a culture. With this perspective she states that literacy will change as we look at different cultures. Baker examined four aspects of literacy that she broke into semiotic, public, transitory, and product oriented.<\/p>\n
6. in my research of the term “Orality versus literacy” I found that orality is defined by societies where traditional forms of literacy, such as reading and writing, have not been introduced or learned by the population. I found articles that reference Walter Ong who wrote about the differences between them.<\/p>\n
7. Being homeschooled for most of my life until here in college, it was interesting to see and learn a new aspect of education. Szwed wrote in the article that “Literacy has typically been viewed as a yes-and-no matter” (422) this quote gives a good description of how I was brought up to view literacy and education. In contrast to the area where I was brought up, I even found myself speaking differently than others around me.<\/p>\n
Literacy standards are created by the society and communities we live in. Personally, I found myself reading different things to learn reading than say my peers who went to an actual school. Whereas I was able to pick what interested me.<\/p>\n
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