Tag Archives: literacy

Literacy and Music in Early Childhood – Multimodal Learning and Design

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

This review of literature examines relevant research that supports new ways of viewing children as active transmitters of culture in situated learning contexts, where case studies explore children’s redesign of semiotic modes of music and verbal linguistics. Some recent research … Continue reading →

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A comparison between popular education and a traditional adult literacy program

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

After Timor-Leste gained its liberation in 1999 many institutions such as UN agencies, the non-formal education division of the Ministry of Education and Culture, bilateral aid partners, international and national NGOs, the Catholic Church, women and youth organizations ran adult … Continue reading →

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Network Literacy

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Giorgio Bertini

The ability to see and understand networks and use them to your advantage is a critical skill for the 21st century workforce. “It’s more than networking. It’s more than exchanging business cards and following up after a conference — although … Continue reading →

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Cultural Identity and Literacy

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read In this article we offer both a conceptual and a methodological proposal for the study of cultural identity by cultural-historical psychology. First we will develop a conceptual framework in which we define acts of identification as a suitable unit … Continue reading →