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A literate environment may include written materials ( newspapers, books and posters ), electronic and broadcast media (radios and TVs) and information and communications technology ( phones, computers and Internet access), which encourage literacy acquisition, a reading culture, improved literacy retention and access to information.
Ecological literacy. Ecological literacy (also referred to as ecoliteracy) is the ability to understand the natural systems that make life on earth possible. To be ecoliterate means understanding the principles of organization of ecological communities (i.e. ecosystems) and using those principles for creating sustainable human communities.
An oasis where kids learn to be climate literate amid trees, flower beds and herbs. Corie Brown. September 15, 2024 at 6:00 AM. Wyatt Gaines, right, and other students water the green onion, basil ...
Multiliteracy (plural: multiliteracies) is an approach to literacy theory and pedagogy coined in the mid-1990s by the New London Group. [1] The approach is characterized by two key aspects of literacy – linguistic diversity and multimodal forms of linguistic expressions and representation. It was coined in response to two major changes in the ...
Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was understood solely as alphabetical literacy (word and letter recognition); and the period after 1950, when literacy slowly began to be considered as a wider concept and process, including the social and cultural ...
Environmental education (EE) refers to organized efforts to teach how natural environments function, and particularly, how human beings can manage behavior and ecosystems to live sustainably. It is a multi-disciplinary field integrating disciplines such as biology, chemistry, physics, ecology, earth science, atmospheric science, mathematics ...
An environment is, after all, a complex message system which imposes on human beings certain ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving." [ 6 ] Media ecology argues that media act as extensions of the human senses in each era, and communication technology is the primary cause of social change. [ 7 ]
Cultural literacy. Cultural literacy is a term coined by American educator and literary critic E. D. Hirsch, referring to the ability to understand and participate fluently in a given culture. Cultural literacy is an analogy to literacy proper (the ability to read and write letters). A literate reader knows the object-language's alphabet ...