davidcayley.com Literacy: The Medium and the Message Part Three
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Feb 21, 2016 Ivan Illich, social critic on alphabetization and the cultural effects of media. Jan Swearingen, rhetoric scholar who champions oral traditions and performance. Suzanne de Castell, education researcher who warns against textbook-driven literacy. They debate oral versus written learning, how textbooks and tests shape literacy, the risks of computerized memory, and preserving diverse spoken practices.
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Treat Literacy And Illiteracy As Interacting Systems
- Literacy and illiteracy interact; one isn't inherently superior and both have roles.
- David Paternayak warns against campaigns that force character recognition without social content and urges interaction between literates and illiterates.
Teach Reading Through Dialogue And Purpose
- Teach literacy purposefully and politically: connect texts to people's lives and dialogue.
- Suzanne de Castell recommends critiquing textbook authority and fostering dialogue so knowledge is co-constructed, not fixed.
Student Hid Reading To Avoid School Degradation
- A labeled 'non-reader' secretly read widely to avoid school rituals of degradation.
- Suzanne de Castell recounts a 15-year-old who received taped books yet wrote a long postcard, revealing resistance to oppressive schooling.