etc. While the connection with written language is more obvious in some of these literacies than in others, the reason for the extension of the meaning of “literacy” to “competence” is clear: in the contemporary world, the acquisition of most competences is mediated through the written ...
Therefore, when students, along with their classroom peers and their teachers, think about learning science, part of it is the envisioning of a process of making meaning and developing science concepts from concrete experiences. Thus, the students engage in science as practice, which refers to "...