How Can I Be Literate: Counting the Ways

Abstract

The author has counted the various kinds of "literacies" used by educational scholars as titles on papers indexed in the ERIC database 1980-1994. The resulting 197 different literacies are listed and divided into five categories: literacy on a topic (computer literacy), literacy among certain people (prison literacy), literacy for a certain purpose (functional literacy), the ability to handle materials in a certain format in literate ways (Braille literacy) and levels of literacy (basic literacy).