social literacy.

“Through their social actions, including their words, they establish their identities as knowledgeable people, socially included friends, and powerful actors; and, embedded in their actions is knowledge […]” (Dyson 326). Children are often actors in ways that they don’t realize. They change themselves according to who is around; they conform to their surroundings in order to fit in. How does literacy and culture affect behaviors around peers and teachers?