What can literacy and cognitive abilities of the brain tell us about critical thinking?

• Autor(a) principal: Teixeira, Mariana Terra
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Townsend, Sabrine Amaral Martins
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABRALIN (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.abralin.org/index.php/abralin/article/view/1449
• topic: Literacia; Pensamento Crítico; Desvirtualização da Informação; Literacy; Critical Thinking; Distortion of information

Mrs. Kolinsky traces a trajectory from the concept of literacy of the 19th century, going through evidence of changes in literacy in the cognitive ca-pacities of literate subjects, until the data description from pretest sessions of her research with adults at EJA (Youth and Adult Education) in Belgium. Professor contributes with important thoughts on the acquisition of reading/writing and cognitive correlates and its impact on society. The researcher brings evidence of the relationship between literacy and critical thinking and the distortion of information. She highlights literacy to the formation of critical thinking by citizens, whose role is crucial to the democratic dynamics of a country. In Brazil, low literacy stands out negatively in the reading rates of young people assessed by Pisa, classifying more than 70% of them as bad readers, turning into a serious and alarming situation in the country.