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The challenges of futures literacy

Futures, 2021
Abstract The meaning of ‘futures literacy’ (FL) depends from both the two individual terms composing FL and the relations between them. The paper offers (i) an analysis of how the meanings of ‘futures’ and ‘literacy’ converge in FL, and (ii) a review of a variety of issues that FL should be able to address in order to eventually become a full-fledged
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Computers and the future of literacy

Proceedings of the May 4-7, 1981, national computer conference on - AFIPS '81, 1981
My goal is to get people who make, buy, and use computers to consider more carefully the impact the computer is likely to have on our culture by recognizing the way it is both changing what it means to be "literate," and perhaps more importantly, changing how people become "literate."
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A Future Perspective on Literacy in Europe

Peabody Journal of Education, 1998
Processes of unification and internationalization have had a major influence on the concept of literacy throughout Europe. Although there is a great diversity in both the distribution and degree of (il)literacy in different countries, there has been an increasing general awareness of the number of illiterates and the consequences of being illiterate ...
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“Futures literacy” or “literacy in relation to the future” as an academic discipline in the modern information society

The Digital Scholar: Philosopher`s Lab, 2022
The article examines the facts of introducing the discipline “Futures literacy” into the edu-cational practice of various countries, explains the need for this innovation and reveals the basic characteristics of the concept of “litera-cy in relation to the future” through a com-parison of various definitions.
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Literacy Assessment and the Future

The Reading Teacher, 2005
In our increasingly multicultural and multilingual societies, where boundaries between print and nonprint media are disappearing, the nature of literacy is changing. In order to guide children in their literate learning, the author advocates assessment practices that “help produce learners who are resilient and view literacy learning, rather than ...
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Futures Literacy?

Ausgehend von der anhaltenden Konjunktur von Diskursen über die Zukunft der Bildung werden im Beitrag einige aktuelle Zukunftskompetenzdiskurse aufgegriffen. Im Zentrum stehen dabei Überlegungen zur Entwicklung von Zukunftskompetenzen unter dem Label Futures Literacy, die auf die Entwicklung und Beförderung antizipatorischer Fähigkeiten ausgerichtet ...
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The Future of ‘Social literacies’

2009
This chapter addresses three areas of work in the field of social literacies where I can identify exciting developments: Academic Literacies in the University; Development Policy and Training Trainers in Literacy Programmes; the relationship of Multimodality to New Literacy Studies.
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The Future of Literacy Studies

2009
Series Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Future of Literacy Studies M.Baynham & M.Prinsloo The Future of 'Social Literacies' B.Street Understanding Textual Practices in a Changing World D.Barton Writing Over Reading: New Directions in Mass Literacy D.Brandt Literacy Practices, Text/s and Meaning Making Across Time and ...
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Futures of the Ethnography of Literacy?

Language and Education, 2004
This article considers the papers in this issue as empirical contributions to the ethnography of literacy paradigm and locates them in the larger debate about theory and methodology in literacy studies to be found in a range of recent publications. I hook those accounts of literacy pedagogy; multi-modality; and of the relationship between the local and
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Warranting our Future: literacy and literacies

European Journal of Education, 2013
Carneiro, Roberto, Gordon, Jean
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