Rethinking Literacy: A Dialogue

Literacy progress generally in giving access to determined and pre established discourse while silencing their own voices which would be amplified in the reinvention of the new society incorporated in a particular way. The legitimation of these different discourses would authenticate the plurality of voices in the reconstruction of a truly democratic society. Throughout the dialogue the arguments are based on the premises having different viewpoints of dimension in their analysis in that event, the author, Macedo, basis argument on the dimension of literacy whereby students have to become literate about their history, experience and culture of their immediate environments while on the other hand they must also appreciate those codes and cultures of the dominant spheres so they can transcend their own environments which brings about tension but the basis is good upon the creation of awareness or consciousness through generation of it in the social practices so the evidence is that the social objectivity cannot be separated by the subjectivity of the author. Thus, Macedo elaborates the connection characteristics of culture and education of social transformation and tensions therefore cultures in...