HW 2/4

Toni Mirabelli earned a Ph.D in education in language, literacy and culture from the university of California
coordinator of the athletic centers tutorial program
gives ideas about the language use in communities
multiliteracies – to argue that the workers did not just read text, they read people and situations.
is there to much focus on on textual literacies?
activity system – an opportunity for you to test the ideas you’ve been working on throughout the chapter.
there are skills that are displayed throughout the food industry that requires them to have more skills then we think.
there are assumptions that waitresses are not educated or lack basic communication and skills.
literacy and contemporary theory
conception of literacy – explains that to be literate means to have control of a “socially accepted association among ways of using language, of thinking and of acting that can be used to identify oneself as a member of a socially meaningful group or social network”.
methodology ?