Literacy Education and Diversity

Literacy refers to a diverse repertoire of practices (language, texts, and tools) that individuals use to communicate. Literacy includes multiple forms of texts, social and cultural contexts, and relationships and linguistic practices that facilitate learning. When applied to education and schooling, the concept of literacy education embraces a wider and more diverse communicational landscape where learning and teaching reflect diversity in the spaces where learning occurs (local–global, physical–virtual), the tools and skills used (textual, technological, visual, performative, artifactual), the texts produced (electronic/digital, visual) and the range of learners (grade levels, backgrounds, identities) who engage in these practices.