LLinE Lifelong Learning in Europe

LLinE 3/2011 Literacy out in October!

Lifelong Learning in Europe 3/2011

Literacy

A sense of urgency permeates the contributions of this Literacy-themed issue of LLinE. Although world illiteracy has been halved since the 1970s, there is no cause for complacency as countless people in the Third World struggle with basic reading and writing skills.

At the same time the view of literacy as a continuum, ranging from basic reading and writing to functional (literacy beyond the basic level, needed to function in modern society) and digital literacy has gained acceptance.

With the bar thus raised for ourselves we are faced with, for instance, the fact that in the heart of Europe, Germany, over seven million people are functionally illiterate.

This issue attempts to follow the literacy continuum, addressing and studying the different aspects of this multifaceted concept, from empowering basic education in Southeast Asia to new media literacy in the UK.



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