Author Archives: sbelle

I am very excited and intrigued by Miller’s teaching philosophy, but it certainly raises a lot of applicability questions.  It seems like there are myriad positives to reading only one text for a class, allowing for the expansion of thought into … Continue reading →

One of the key points that really stuck out to me in Heath’s article was her discussion of literacy as an equalizing mechanism in society.  For the people of Trackton, literacy was almost always a shared event.  Its primary uses … Continue reading →

On page 681 of the Tinsley/Kaestle article, they write that “Reading for information is so mundane, so continuous, and so ubiquitous that autobiographers say little about it”.  This really struck me and surprised me upon first reading it.  In the … Continue reading →

Most especially inspired by the many complexities presented in the Goody and Watt article, I am wondering what the relationship is between literacy and truth.  This article purports that more literate societies are more individualized, more aware of history with … Continue reading →

Literacy is the ability to both understand and produce language through the acts of reading and writing.