What is it about?
Young learners develop their literacy practices according to their different communicative needs inside and outside school. A multimodal literacy is promoted outside school to meet students’ daily communicative needs. However, the school promotes a monomodal literacy, which allows pupils to respond essentially to school needs.
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Why is it important?
Social changes introduced in Costa Rica in the last decade have led to the need to incorporate information and communications technology (ICT) in schools as part of curriculum development and the transformation of teaching methodology. However, the use made of ICT by teachers in the classroom is usually very limited owing to the poor quality of technological resources and internet connectivity. These same reports highlight the lack of methodological knowledge of teachers for incorporating ICT in the curriculum of the primary school classroom.
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I hope this research was founded on the perspective of literacy as a social practice linked to written activities. Thus, the study of written communication has a situated character, both from a historical and social perspective. In our study we have presented some relevant findings regarding literacy development and its relation to the home and family contexts, as well as their interaction with formal school learning.
Fernando Guzmán-Simón
Universidad de Sevilla
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This page is a summary of: Analysis of Different Views and Conceptualizations of the Literacy Practices of Pupils, Families, and Teachers in Costa Rican Primary Education, Journal of Research in Childhood Education, May 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2018.1464527.
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