A revised definition of literacy: always a work in progress?
By Eva Rozkosz under CC BY-SA 2.0 license In a previous post about literacy, I provided an analogy: becoming literate would be akin to generating life with all the different forms and variables that both entail. For a revised definition of literacy, I considered the importance of determining what type of literacy one is involved with so that desired results can be verified. This encompassed the idea that there are limits to what literacy can define and that experience with each of the cultural variants that literacy may be inherent to is largely determined by the deliberate practice that one engages in. B oth definitions still hold true to me when one considers the importance of defining the stages of development and consequently the kind of learning that one is apt to engage in. This is what I intend to expand on here. If one considers the term ‘active’ and derives from it the literal meaning that it conveys, that which is performed through physical exertion, then only