By Shannon Carter
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The term “impl[ies] participation in an activity system about which participants share understandings concerning what they are doing and what that means in their lives and for their communities” (98). Embedded in activity theory are two, complementary assumptions: (1) language, literacy, and learning are embedded in communities of practice rather than entirely within the minds of individuals; and (2) communities reproduce themselves through social practices. When these social practices become routinized and interrelated (“just the way things are done”) within a community of practice, they may be understood as part of an activity system.
For Gerrell, the difference between literacy and the alternative might be a matter of basic survival: If Ms. Fields [his fourth grade teacher] wasn’t there to teach me literacy, I probably could have lost my life. . If there was a sign in public that said, “Take one and you will die” and I think it meant take one it’s free, I would lose my life. 4 (WA3, 2) In my home state of Texas, half the entire population of adults has been marked as unable to “cope” according to the data a national assessment of literacy was able to extract from their literate lives.
93, emphasis mine) An autonomous perspective is a highly problematic and, indeed, “violent” one. It is certainly a misleading one. As the authors of the study cited above explain, 36 THE WAY LITERACY LIVES The reason for the discrepancy between their literacy skills and their ability to “function” in everyday life lies in their strategies for meeting everyday literacy demands for learning. Even in a print-based society, there is more than one way to fulfill most everyday task. Competency-based assessments and its theoretical base, functional literacy, make a great leap: that if someone cannot read a bus timetable, they cannot use a transportation system effectively; if someone cannot read a want ad, they cannot find a job; if someone cannot read appliance instructions, they cannot learn to use it efficiently.