Literacy can mean many things hence the birth of the term multiple literacy. When you think of literacy you usually think of being able to read and write. However in their article, Bloome and Encisco show that literacy is so much more. Literacy is also having the ability to read a neighborhood and to understand why certain establishments function the way they do. Part of literacy also involves knowing when to act a certain way, or as Delpit defines it “code switch”. I recently saw a special on Comedy Central, in which a black comedian makes fun of why his friends can’t get jobs and then they blame it on the (white) “man”. The comedian then goes on to explain the language used by his fellow black friends. He describes them as walking in job interviews with their pants hanging below their butts and walking in slang and Ebonics. In my opinion this is the most important part of literacy, and knowing when to use which language is having multiple literacies.
Monday, February 9, 2009
1,2,3 x Literacy = multiple literacies
Posted by svn2shea at 8:21 PM
Labels: multiple literacy, stereotypes, Torian Huges
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