Collaborative Writing. National Adult Literacy Agency. Everyday Literacies Prezi. It was a pleas ure to present, meet researchers, and listen to the insights of others at the “Everyday Literacies” conference at Sheffield University on Friday.
One of the things that appealed to me about the conference, and eventually to register and send an abstract, is its emphasis on problematising what some regard as formal, curricular, or elite LiteracIES against personal, social, or vernacular ones. As only through doing so can we challenge the notion that a simple ‘lack’ of LiteracY holds people back, and that people’s “everyday literacies” can be a fruitful foundation for learning and development. The idea of a classroom as a ‘nexus’ of literacies is something which echoes Brandt and Clinton’s (2002) call for us to question the “limits of the local” in literacy research, and for it to take into account the “larger enterprises…away from the immediate scene” (Brandt and Clinton, 2002: p. 338).
Here is my prezi for that session: Skillswise - Homepage. Practitioner-led action research. Skilled to go. NRDC - National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. National Adult Literacy Agency. Skills Workshop. English, maths and ESOL hub.