Welcome!

Dear Colleagues,

To help you get started on your first post, I'd like to ask you to play a fill in the blank game:

What Does Literacy Mean?

Think about the ways we tend to speak of it. What social value do we ascribe to it? What powers do we presume literacy carries with it?

To play the game, simply brainstorm a list that takes up the social meanings we ascribe to literacy, beginning each line on the list with:

Literacy is....____________.