International Literacy Day 2022 – By Dr Shan Haines Source : Brisbane Sri Lankan Newsletter – Dæhæna – September 2022 This year’s International Literacy Day will be celebrated worldwide on Thursday, 8th of September, under the theme Transforming Literacy Learning Spaces, with the intention of bringing the ownership of the challenges of literacy back home to the local community. So why has the UNESCO devoted a specific day to recognize literacy since 1967? Traditionally, literacy has meant the ability to read and write. Miriam Webster Dictionary defines it as the ‘quality or state of being literate; educated…able to read and write”. But these days, this meaning has been expanded to include the knowledge and skills people need to listen to, read, view, speak, write and create oral, print, visual and digital texts for different purposes in a range of contexts. It now includes the skills and abilities to access, understand, analyse, ...
Aug 31, 2022
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