From Street to the Streets

To me it sounds like many people (government people and some scholars) think literacy is the solution to everyone’s misfortune, economic statues and etcetera. Hence the autonomous literacy is seen as an answer, when in reality the problem lays with the government not providing appropriate funding and support of those who are not academically successful. I think people rather blame ones inability to read for not having a good job or education, rather than shift the blame to the appropriate source(s) which is the government. The government can do whatever it wants and really those schools that are under performing the government can change it around but again it is easier to say oh the people don’t want to go to school therefore the scores are low so why intervene  but then again the government are the one screaming and hollering we gotta do something.

I agree with the idealogogical that literacy is social practice and it is important to acknowledge that practice, but in order to get people to become autonomous of their literacy they should be exposed to everything and anything possible and shown how ZYX is related to their lives or how they can make it apart of their lives and from there is it up to the individual to pursue it further, which is a reflection of “the concept of “events”, but then extended it to “practices”, by describing the everyday uses and meanings of literacy amongst,”(Street).

I have to talk a tad about Hull and Katz because it really does give a visual about what ideological literacy is. In the case of Randy he was able to use the technology of the 21 century to tell his story. In reality he was more literate then you would think. His writing was deeper than the average school topics but of life, his life and he did it for years. He knew the technology of the 21^st century could help him develop a new literacy and jump the street route education of drugs and crime. Not only that but that type of literacy does not often enter the streets of the hood.