The Importance of the Act of Reading

The Importance of the Act of Reading Freire, P., & Macedo, D. (2005). The Importance of the Act of Reading In Literacy: Reading the word and the world. (pp. 20-24) Routledge.

Part of the context of my immediate world was also the lan­ guage universe of my elders, expressing their beliefs, tastes,  ars, and values whi   nked my wo d to a wider one whose e stence I could not even suspect.

Compare with Wittegnstein & Vygotsky on early language acquisition

How is the act of reading the world like and unlike reading the digital world?

“reading and writing–basically inseparable” (33)

“Mechanically memo ng the des ip on of an object does not cons tute knowing the object. That is why read­ g a text as pure des p on of an object (like a syntac cal rule), and undertaken to memo ze the des ip on, is neither real reading nor does it result in knowledge of the object to which the text refers.” (33)

“I always saw tea ing adults to read and  ite as a political act, an act of knowledge, and therefore a creative act” (34)

Epistemological claims in understanding of reading

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