It is celebrated today September 8th, the International Literacy Day. This is an anniversary strongly desired by the UNESCO and supported by several non-profit organizations from around the world.
Literacy is a right that should be recognized for all, a fundamental right for development, the harmony and individual and social well-being.
According to the definition of the Treccani dictionary, the term literacy designates the process of teaching and learning the minimal written communication skills essential to humans, of which reading, writing, comprehension and calculation skills. It is no accident-it never is, how fascinating is the interplay of meaning and logic behind words? - that alfa and beta are respectively the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. To be alphabet therefore would stand for "possessing the alphabet."
This call for "learning-that-must-never-terminate" is especially aimed at children and adults who, due to external obstacles, have not had the opportunity to access education. While illiteracy, by undue assumption, we associate it with cases where communities of young individuals from birth have not had access to literacy, in modern society the term literacy is also used to refer to a lack of more or less specific functional knowledge.
For the sake of practicality, the article will consider-and take to heart-the concept of "old-school" literacy, ca va sans dire. According to the UNICEF report "A World Ready to Learn" dated 2019, there are mainly three key factors for undertaking preschool education, and for initiating toddlers into literacy: the poverty, The family well-beings, the area of
The gap is even more evident in terms of contribution technological. In low-income countries, children do not have access to remote learning systems because of limited economic and technological resources. While in the past two years or so, many of the countries were preparing primary and secondary school children and youth to take classes in dad, on the other side of the world numerous children were struggling to survive.
Distance education is a luxury that, fortunately, many countries have been able to take advantage of. Yet it has awakened the attention of several nonprofit organizations, denouncing the digital divide, which compares two parts of the world.
Moreover, what also resulted from the lockdown was a loss, in terms of effectiveness, of learning, concentration, and thus literacy.
International Literacy Day, established back in 1967, is precisely intended to celebrate the importance of literacy for all cultures and countries around the world. Poor mastery of key communication skills can be a limitation for an individual in their relationship with themselves and the society around them.
Literacy is not only an access to freedom, to independence. It is not only an existential right. It can be and is an instrument of power, decisive for human development and social progress.
The new illiteracy is more than not knowing how to read a book; it is about not knowing how to read the world. (at Henry Giroux)
Happy International Literacy Day!
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