Literacy Redefined (cont.)
The International Literacy Year ended with Policy Directions (1990), defined literacy as a functional literacy, that is, the ability to read and use written information, to write appropriately in a range of contexts, and to recognize numbers and basic mathematical signs and symbols.
To be literate was not only to recognize when information was required, but involved the ability to construct one’s own knowledge through a process that gave meaning and self-interest to the notion of learning throughout a lifetime. --Kuhlthau, 1995