In Portugal, particularly after the dissemination of the results from the first national study on Portuguese adults' literacy levels (Benavente, 1996; OECD & Statistics Canada, 2000), which pointed to a severe literacy 'problem', successively reinforced, since 2000, by the regularly low performance of the Portuguese students in OECD-PISA, a particular perspective about the power and the personal and social effects of literacy, in a certain way, a popular theory about literacy (Carrington & Luke, 1997, p. 96) became prevalent in the public sphere.
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De Lourdes Dionísio, M., De Castro, R. V., & Arqueiro, A. S. (2013). Literacies in the workplace social conditions, practices and meanings. In Cartographies of Becoming in Education: A Deleuze-Guattari Perspective (pp. 111–125). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-170-2_9
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