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Smart, Karla – Insights into Open Education, 1985
An appreciation for the diverse meanings ascribed to the concept of literacy is fundamental to the affirmation of literacy in human lives. Literacy is something interpreted. Its presence is visible in lives, yet literacy remains an invisible, measureless phenomenon. In the fullness of being literate, there is humanness-wakefulness, liveliness and…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Definitions, Illiteracy, Individual Development