Oct. 18, 2021

31 – What is the literacy of our lives? (w Brent Saccucci)

31 – What is the literacy of our lives? (w Brent Saccucci)

The 21st century demands an updated definition of literacy and an expansion of our understanding of what constitutes a “text.” For instance, how might we read and write our relationships? Our institutions? Our own thoughts? Brent Saccucci...

The 21st century demands an updated definition of literacy and an expansion of our understanding of what constitutes a “text.” For instance, how might we read and write our relationships? Our institutions? Our own thoughts?

Brent Saccucci (he/they) is currently a senior school teacher at Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School and Ph.D. candidate in Literacy—focusing on social, emotional, and critical literacies—at the University of Alberta where he also teaches a course in the BEd program. 

On the episode, we explore the relationship between social-emotional learning and lower-case "l" literacy. 

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