Basics Of Literacy: More Meaningful And Wide In Globalization via Eurasia Review

Basics Of Literacy: More Meaningful And Wide In Globalization

Eurasia Review: 9.08.2019 by Dr. Rajkumar Singh

Literacy is a key for socio-economic progress. It is defined as the ability to identify, understand, interpret, what one reads and to write what one understands. It is to communicate graphically. Acquiring literacy n materials associated with varying contexts. Originally derived from the Latin word “Letter” literacy is the ability to read and write in at least one language. It is a human right, a tool of personal empowerment and a means for social and human development.

The notion of basic literacy is used for the initial learning of reading and writing which adults who have never been to school need to go through. In the context the term functional literacy is kept for the level of reading and writing which adults are thought to need in modern complex society. In a clearer term it may be said that to acquire literacy is more than to psychologically and mechanically dominate reading and writing techniques. It is to dominate those techniques in terms of consciousness; does not involve memorizing sentences, words or syllables-lifeless objects unconnected to an existential universe- but rather an attitude of creation and recreation, a self-transformation, producing a stance of intervention in one’s context. It is at the heart of basic education for all, and essential for eradicating poverty, reducing child mortality, curbing population growth, achieving gender equality and ensuring sustainable development, peace and democracy. create, communicate, compute and use printed and written materials.

Universal meaning of literacy

Several international agencies including the International Council for Adult Education, notes literacy as learning to read and write, reading and writing to learn and developing these skills and using them effectively for meeting basic needs. Universal access to quality education in developed countries has helped to shape this concept of literacy.

According to it true literacy encompasses much more than just basic skills. It includes the ability to analyse things, understand general ideas or terms, use symbols in complex ways, apply theories and perform other necessary life skills, including the ability to engage in the social and economic life of the community. This broader concept of literacy is also called functional literacy and opposite to it is the basic literacy concept which focuses on acquiring skills, functional literacy deals with how people actually use such skill to live and work in society. READ MORE >>