Learning Social Literacy

This book provides a framework for thinking about how to be ourselves while we're with people that matter to us and that influence our well being because we live with them, they teach or lead us, or they are members of teams at work. Learning social literacy (becoming authentic and integrated) is a hard lesson to learn. Learning it depends on being accurate and flexible as we try to perceive what's going on during social interaction. It also depends on understanding and assessing large-scale social patterns that help us see what's going on while people are together so that we can respond in ways that are congruent with the kind of people we want to be. In response to the complexity of learning how to be authentic and integrated with others, this book begins with a perspective on a civil and inclusive school culture that allows all children to have access to education by identifying and demonstrating life principles that undergird social literacy. Social literacy is motivated by civility, which is depicted through examples. At its core, the book outlines a culture of civility that people need to experience so they can learn how to be themselves yet live well among other people. In order to understand the implications of developing a culture that affirms and practices social literacy, the book explores meme theory, abduction, human connection, spirituality, power relations, empathy, aspects of early child development, self-regulation and resilience. The book is a call to action. It is also a call to consider the well being of our cities due to their potential to shape the civic culture in which social literacy is recognized, welcomed and valued. The importance of creating civil, inclusive cultures at home and in public space is evident throughout the pages of this book.--

• | Author: Joyce Edith Bellous, Jean M. Clinton
• | Publisher: Tall Pine Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 14, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 438 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Education
• | ISBN-10: 0981014933
• | ISBN-13: 9780981014937