Critical Literacy Lessons for the Intellectual Properties of Learning from Bede and Alcuin of York
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- Abstract
- The concept of intellectual property, which has been largely absent from education in critical literacy, has much to contribute to it. Intellectual property rights have become increasingly crucial to issues of access to and economics of research and scholarship today and how such rights are associated with learning and the work of the learned is relevant to critical literacy. To begin to establish how intellectual property has long played a role in the critical shaping of learning, this paper considers the eighth-century examples provided by Bede and by Alcuin of York in the medieval monastic development of learning in the West. These examples illustrate how a cultural history of the proto-concept of intellectual property can illuminate the special and distinct status of learning in the production and circulation of knowledge. If we are to appreciate why we might expect a certain class of intellectual property, closely associated with the production of knowledge in institutions such as universities, to be regarded as a public resource and goods, then we need to appreciate how this sense of the public good has long been a part of the educational history of the West. To that end, Bede and Alcuin of York are considered as medieval historical precedents for an opening up of literacy and learning that is relevant to digital era issues over long-established tensions between a cloistered literacy (and learning) that is placed at a remove from the world and an opening up of literacy, learning, and access to knowledge.
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| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | December 2012 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Willinsky, John |
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| Author | Provenal, Johanne |
Subjects
| Subject | critical literacy |
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| Genre | Article |
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| Related Publication | Willinsky, John & Provenal, Johanne. (in press). Critical literacy lessons for the intellectual properties of learning from Bede and Alcuin of York. International Journal of Cultural Studies. |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/tq487yw3360 |
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