Literacy in a culture of delimitation and provisionality
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This talk, with reference to the prevailing economic, social, cultural, technological conditions, will problematise traditional definitions of literacy. It will discuss new forms of appropriation and meaning-making, namely those that valorize the cultural resources and media practices of everyday life and that take seriously the subjectivities and identities of learners and their modes of (self)representation.
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