[NLA] name of center

[Catherine B. King]

Hello Daphne:

What does "lifelong literacy" mean?

I know "literacy" has a cavernous set of meanings in common
parlance; but doesn't it usually refer to something we achieve
as a good foundation for our education, and then "lifelong
learning" what we may now do in a more qualified and
exponential sense because we have become literate?

Though we can become "educated," we don't think of having
done so as an end of something achieved; but have come to
think of formal education as a continuing process with degree-
stops along the way, or informal education as the ongoing
development of wisdom gained from experience.

On the other hand, like becoming educated, we can become
"literate;" but unlike education, I don't hear literacy used in the
"lifelong" sense?  Once we become literate, do we continue
to add to our literacy in a "lifelong" sense, or do we only
become more educated and wise?  Has "literacy" come to
mean "educated"?   Doesn't "literacy" have as its root  the
general notion of "letters" and reading?  As interrelated and
intertwined as the meaning of "reading" is to the meaning of
being "educated," are they the same thing?  Or does being
"educated" refer to something we can be without necessarily
being "literate"?

And do you have to have Child or Adult in the title?  Can it
be Center for the Study of Literacy?  with subsets of Adult
and Child rather than have these "kinds" of literacy as
adjectives modifying "literacy"?

Just some thoughts.

Catherine King
----- Original Message -----
From: Daphne Greenberg <alcdgg at langate.gsu.edu>
To: <nla at lists.literacytent.org>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:49 AM
Subject: [NLA] name of center


I would like to invite some feedback over an issue that I am thinking about.
Currently, my center is called the Center for the Study of Adult Literacy.
The Dean wants the name to be changed to the Center for the Study of
Lifelong Literacy. I am worried about losing the word Adult in the title and
would like to propose the name: Center for the Study of Adult and Child
Literacy.
So, which name do you think is better:
Center for the Study of Lifelong Literacy
or
Center for the Study of Adult and Child Literacy
Do you think it matters? Why?
Thanks,
Daphne


Daphne Greenberg
Associate Director
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy
MSC 6A0360
Georgia State University
33 Gilmer Street SE Unit 6
Atlanta, GA 30303-3086
phone: 404-651-0127
fax:404-651-4901
dgreenberg at gsu.edu
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