Read with Me: Celebrating our Local Literacies

Abstract

The following literary works were presented at the "Read with me: Celebrating our Local Litercies" event held by Enletawa Journal on August 27, 2021. When discussing literacy, Freire gave us a look at the depth of the concept when he said, "If we think of education as an act of knowing, then reading has to do with knowing. The act of reading cannot be explained as merely reading words since every act of reading words implies a previous reading of the world and a subsequent rereading of the world" (1986, p. 18). Therefore, literacy is much more than the act of reading and writing words. It is the act of conciously reading the World. If litercy involves reading the World, then it also includes understanding our history and culture, and if possible, contributing to its negotiation and transformation. As Nieto-Gómez and Clavijo-Olarte (2020) mentioned, "Teachers and students can become researchers that use language to question and produce texts informed by their own reality" (p. 31). Hence, literacy gives us the power to become creators of our own World.