Literacy+Practice

=Literacy Practice= I really like [|Janet Maybin's] take on literacy practices - she says that, 'The notion of 'literacy events, 'highlights the mediation of texts through dialogue and social interaction, in the context of particular practices and settings (Heath 1983), and the conception of 'literacy practices' incorporates both events, and people's beliefs and understandings about them (Street 1995). Maybin talks of 'the pivotal role of literacy practices in articulating the links between individual people's everyday experience, and wider social institutions and structures' (Maybin 2000:197) This I think highlights the relational quality of literacy practices - people engage with them, change them, and the practices continue to exist inside people's heads as well as embedded within everyday practice.