Gee+on+Ideology-Elizabeth

It seems to me that just as we said in class that "Everything is Literacy", similarly, everything is based on ideology. Marketing of goods and services is based on theories that make up ideologies. Religion too is ideology. Sometimes, as in Syria under the Assad regime and the Syrian Ba'ath Party, the ideology of the ruling party is socialism but it is geared to satisfy Islam so that the people do not revolt (But they revolted anyway). I don't think there are pure ideologies in practice. Ideologies infect each other and may have elements from another ideology added to the main body. When we were supposed to write and reflect on our theories of literacy, pedagogy and learning in English 596 I didn't know what was my own theory of literacy. I still struggle to place myself among the many theories of literacy we learned in English 515. I view literacy within context. I have different assumptions and expectations from an adult than from a child. Literacy demands different things from different people in different stages of life and formal education.