How COST Actions are contributing to literacy teaching and learning.
On International Literacy Day we want to shed light on the contributions of COST Actions in the study of this field. The focus of this year’s celebration is “Literacy teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond”. A beautiful initiative very much related to this topic is a poem exchange to overcome the pandemic by COST Action Strengthening Europeans’ capabilities by establishing the European literacy network. You can read all of the poems here.
In context of this international day, the Action Building on scientific literacy in evolution towards scientifically responsible Europeans is also worth mentioning. The main aim of this network is to identify strategies that raise the levels of scientific literacy in Europe. One of the Action’s working groups has recently published a review on the evolution acceptance and knowledge in Europe: Towards common ground in measuring acceptance of evolution and knowledge about evolution across Europe.
On a similar topic, a COST Action on citizen science is contributing to the study of scientific literacy: Citizen science to promote creativity, scientific literacy, and innovation throughout Europe. Citizen science can be a great source of knowledge, data collection and dissemination on subjects like climate change. But, what if citizen science could be a tool to promote scientific literacy too?
Finally, we cannot talk about literacy without mentioning digital literacy. The appearance of digital technologies is having a huge impact on the way children and adults learn and access data. Two COST Actions have been digging into this issue for the past four years. One focusses on reading practices Evolution of reading in the age of digitisation (E-READ) and the other on children learning processes The digital literacy and multimodal practices of young children (DigiLitEY).
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