Original paper
How literacy in its fundamental sense is central to scientific literacy
Abstract
This paper draws upon a distinction between fundamental and derived senses of literacy to show that conceptions of scientific literacy attend to the derived sense but tend to neglect the fundamental sense. In doing so, they fail to address a central component of scientific literacy. A notion of literacy in its fundamental sense is elaborated and contrasted to a simple view of reading and writing that still has much influence on literacy...
Paper Details
Title
How literacy in its fundamental sense is central to scientific literacy
Published Date
Jan 24, 2003
Journal
Volume
87
Issue
2
Pages
224 - 240
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