Creativity in Everyday Literacy Practices: The contribution of an ethnographic approach
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that much creativity can be found in the seemingly mundane and repetitive
acts of text production and text use that are part of everyday life and work.
Such creativity can only be identified, however, if we look beyond the texts
themselves and examine the practices of making and engaging with texts.
Once we leave aside conventional text-based notions of creativity, which
focus on aesthetic features of language, we can understand creativity as a
‘popular’ and ‘ubiquitous’ event. To support our argument, we give
examples from two different contexts: research on literacy in a parish
community in the North-West of England and a study of literacy in relation
to community-based tourism in Namibia.
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