Limitless literacies: Exploring a transdisciplinary approach

Limitless literacies: Exploring a transdisciplinary approach A transdisciplinarity approach liberates the education of literacies as a limitless enterprise, argues Patriann Smith, Ph.D. Across a globe assailed by the contemporary challenges of not-too-distant pasts, besieged by obstacles threatening to almost irreparably doom our nations’ presents, yet inevitably cognizant of a destiny to be instantiated by just futures, more than 8 billion people continue to rely on literacies to make sense of and navigate their worlds. Schools, vestiges of colonial legacies, perpetually challenged by this milieu of Sankofan juxtapositions, like ostriches whose heads remain stuck in the sand, continue to render an architecture of learning that subscribes to an imagined notion of literacy and not the multiple realities of literacies – a dynamic reflecting the beholdenness to discrete bodies of what one can know regarding such limited literacy conceptions while somehow remaining oblivious to the transdisciplinary impetus increasingly mobilized universally through emerging understandings of the quantum world.