Reconsidering information literacy.
Abstract The delineated information explosion inevitably prompted moves---via the information literacy concept---to help survive the ensuing problematic information deluge through effective retrieval, evaluation, and efficient use. However, there are insistent calls for conceptual reconsideration because of the emerged negative connotation of "literacy" in this teaching-learning concept. ...

Adult Literacy Findings Highlight Need for Targeted Stimulus Funding.
ProLiteracy Calls for Increased Funding to Support Literacy Programs SYRACUSE, N.Y., Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- ProLiteracy today reiterated the need for substantial investment in adult literacy and adult basic education, as the findings of a federal study showed that nearly one in seven adults in the U.S....

World Literacy Day: Literacy and Sustainable Development.
LITERACY as defined in the National Literacy Act is an individual's ability to read, write, and speak, compute and solve problems on levels of proficiency to function on the job and in society to achieve one's goals, and to develop one's knowledge and potential. As the world changes and...

Can one "read" a work of visual art?
Polonius: What are you reading, my Lord? Hamlet: A painting. The purpose of this article is to offer points of view about the value of the commonplace metaphorical reference to the "reading" of works of visual art as if they were, like language texts, composed...

Washtenaw Literacy Appoints New Executive Director.
Amy Goodman brings passion for literacy and proven non-profit leadership track record to Washtenaw County organization ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynamic non-profit leader Amy Goodman has joined Washtenaw Literacy as Executive Director. Washtenaw Literacy, a Washtenaw County-based non-profit organization, focuses on helping men and...

Washtenaw Literacy Announces Power Tutoring Event.
Workshop offers continuing education opportunities to learners, tutors, administrators, and Michigan literacy councils from around the state ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Washtenaw Literacy, a non-profit organization dedicated to eradicating adult illiteracy, is pleased to offer Power Tutoring, a free day-long series of workshops designed...

Govt forms body to boost literacy drives.
PATNA: The state government has constituted a sub-committee to prepare an action plan for giving impetus to informal education and literacy programmes. Announcing this here on Saturday, CM Nitish Kumar hoped that the Centre will extend full cooperation in this regard. He was speaking at the 12th...

Debating literacy in Australia: history lessons and popular f(r)ictions.
Snapshots Illiteracy is not only a cruel and unjust handicap, from the point of view of the individual, but a disgrace, and indeed a menace, from the point of view of society. The Duncan Report [Adult Education in Australia], 1944, p. 106. Delinquents are rare in Christian homes. Argus,...

Reading the 'Rose:' literacy and the presentation of the 'Roman de la Rose' in medieval manuscripts.
In The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Brian Stock grapples with the thorny problem of defining literacy.(1) Although most of us think of it as the ability to read and write, Stock takes care to specify that literacy is...

Global Literacy Perspectives, Contexts, and Challenges.
Literacy can enrich lives, increase self-respect, open doors of opportunity, and furnish people with a voice. On a broader scale, literacy can enhance economic and social development and lay foundations for social justice. As countries around the world seek to promote literacy and combat illiteracy, the authors in this...