Tulevaisuuden kansalaisia rakentamassa

Uudet lukutaidot koulutuksen ja opetuksen digitalisaation kehityksessä

Authors

• Suvi-Sadetta Kaarakainen Koulutussosiologian tutkimuskeskus, Turun yliopisto
• Meri-Tuulia Kaarakainen Koulutussosiologian tutkimuskeskus, Turun yliopisto

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30661/afinlavk.69269

Keywords:

new literacies, educational policy documents, text-mining

Abstract

The concept of new literacies refers to new forms of literacy. The meaning of literacy is
constantly changing as new technologies and new social practices emerge. To be literate in the
future means being able to use a combination of new technologies and new social practices
that have not yet appeared. This has important implications for education. In this paper, we
analyse Finnish educational policy and strategy papers from 1998 to 2014 conducting textmining
and traditional close reading. By means of lexical dispersion we separate three distinct
time periods: before 2005, the years 2005–2010 and after 2010. By close reading and topic
modeling, we examine the emergence of new literacies in our research material and how this
is related to the sociocultural contexts of each period of time.