Digital literacies in the female prison context: reflections from the EPRIS project's journey
Rita Manuela de Almeida Barros, Angélica Maria Reis Monteiro, Carlinda Maria Ferreira Alves Faustino Leite · Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 2021
At a time when traditional reading and writing skills are no longer sufficient and the need to extend them to the field of digital literacy (DL) is recognised, it is important to help people living in prison develop this competence.It was with this idea in mind that the EPRIS project -e-learning in a prison contextwas developed, which has been ongoing since 2015 at the Female Santa Cruz do Bispo Prison (EP).The project, conceived in the b-learning modality, results from a partnership between the Piaget Institute, the General Direction of Reinsertion and Prison Services, and Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Porto.In its development, the team assumes an DL concept that encompasses the "awareness, attitude and ability of individuals to appropriately use digital tools and facilities to identify, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, analyse and synthesize digital resources, construct new knowledge, create media expressions, and communicate with others, in the context of specific life situations, in order to