Literacy as a resource to build resiliency

The purpose of this book is to document a research study on literacy as a resource to build resiliency with adults through dialogic experiences in the context of displaced populations in Colombia. The área selected is literacy, defined as a situated social practice and framed within dialogic experiences with adults. I came to this decision considering my own experience as a reader, in-service teacher, graduate student and new researcher, and influenced by the professional literature and academic training I had from year 2001 to 2004. The readings for seminars and graduate courses informed me about new perspectives of literacy that consider the personal, social and cultural situation of the individual. These factors, I believe, influence the way readers grow as critical individuals of ther situation in order to search for ways to transform it. I came to this decision considering my own experience as a reader, in-service teacher, graduate student and new researcher, and influenced by the professional literature and academic training I had from year 2001 to 2004. The readings for seminars and graduate courses informed me about new perspectives of literacy that consider the personal, social and cultural situation of the individual. These factors, I believe, influence the way readers grow as critical individuals of ther situation in order to search for ways to transform it.