1. Illiteracy embodies a language and a set of practices that
underscore the need for developing a radical theory of literacy
that takes seriously the task of uncovering how particular forms of
social and moral regulation produce a culture of ignorance of
stupidity crucial to the silencing of all potencially critical
voices Aronowitz
2. 0Functional literacy0Critical literacy
3. Functional literacy0 Develops skills (writing reading)0
Addresses issues of social purposes in contexts of use0 Defines the
uses of reading and writing to achieve social purposes in contexts
of use0 Teaches participants to achieve their social objectives0
Accepts means of communication as something given and natural0
Admits the natural status of dominant institutions and social
discourses0 Helps individuals function within a given society in
order to participate and achieve their own goals
4. Critical literacy0 Questions the natural status of dominant
institutions and discourses0 Deals with finding out how something
works0 Looks below the surface of things and events, asking
questions such as: 1. Why does this exist/happen? 2. What is its
purpose? 3. Whose interests does it serve? 4. Whose interests does
it frustate? 5. How does it operate? 6. Need it operate like this
or could it be done differently and better?0 Gives powerful tools
for developing critical thinking0 Conceives language as a powerful
social practice0 Develops a critical awareness of social purpose
and whose interests are being served by it0 Regards critical
reflection as a dimension that must be complemented with
action
5. Literacy vs.Illiteracy
6. Literacy/Illiteracy0 They function as a way of labelling and
grading people. It also categorizes people into educational haves
and have-nots0 Being in the have-not group creates what Freire
calls a culture of silence0 Illiteracy implies a form of political
and intellectual ignorance as well as a possible instance of class,
gender, racial, or cultural resistance.
7. Models of literacy/illiteracyFrom Freires point of view:
reading the world always precedes reading the word0 Skills
development model0 Therapeutic model0 Personal empowerment model0
Social empowerment model0 Functional model0 Critical model
8. Literacy from a cross-disciplinary perspective language
education theoryanthropology sociology Literacy Research practice
history psychology Literacy is a socio-political construct as much
as a linguistic one
9. A theory of language in context language language Language
as text as social process as social practice
10. Critical literacy Ideological construct: it is rooted in a
spirit of critique. Literacy was a double edged sword It enables
people to participate in Gramsci the undersatanding and
transformation of their society It develops forms of
counterhegemonic education Perpetuation of around the political
project of relations of creating a society of intellectuals
repression and domination Social movement: It is tied to the
material andSelf and social political conditions necessary
toempowerment develop and organize teachers, community workers, and
others both within and outside of schools. It takes an active part
in the struggle for creating the conditions necessary to make
people literate
11. The freireian model of emancipatory literacy0 Dialectical
relationship between Human beings world0 Language - transformative
agency0 Literacy means a self and socially constituted agent.0
Literacy is part of the process of becoming self-critical about the
historically constructed nature of ones experience.
12. Critical pedagogy0 Students voice must be heard0 Students
need to be introduced to a language of empowerment and radical
ethics0 Teachers should provide students with the opportunity to
interrogate different languages or ideological discourses0 Critical
educators are also learners0 Students and teachers can dialogue and
struggle together in order to make their respective positions heard
out/inside the classrooms.
13. Percentage of illiteracy in Colombiaaccording to the
realperformance of literate peoplein our country, what mighthave
been the conceptions ofliteracy inherent in theimplemented
literacyprograms in the latest years?