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The Four Literacies

An Exercise in Public Memory

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Beyond Economic Interests

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Public memory is a foundational resource for any community in articulating its identity, values, aspirations and practices. In this sense, shared public memory functions as the informal equivalent of a political constitution, what in earlier times was called the ‘sensus communis’.

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  2. University of Technology Sydney, Australia

    Stephen Black

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Mccormack, R. (2016). The Four Literacies. In: Yasukawa, K., Black, S. (eds) Beyond Economic Interests. International Issues in Adult Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-444-2_12

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