Abstract

This chapter is about literacies including, but exceeding, language-based literacies. In the language and educational sciencesScience, literacyLiteracies, literacy has become synonymous with reading and writing the written word. However, human based language is only one of many sign systemsSign systems that mediate our world and all life on this planet. We argue that relating to, and communicating in this world, equitably and sustainably, requires far more literacies than that of the written word.