Creating Critical Classrooms
K-8 Reading and Writing With an Edge
Published on 1. August 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-0-8058-6231-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book for elementary and middle school teachers and literacy methods courses articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy instruction. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world, interrogate the relationship between language and power, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions that can be taken to promote social justice. By providing both a model for critical literacy instruction and many examples of how critical practices can be enacted in daily school life in elementary and middle school classrooms, Creating Critical Classrooms meets a huge need for a practical, theoretically based text on this topic.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
702 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8058-6231-7 (9780805862317)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Mitzi Lewison, Christine Leland, Jerome Harste
Indiana University, USA
Indiana University, USA
Content
Contents: L. Christensen, Foreword. Introduction. Overview: Why Do We Need a Theory of Critical Literacy? Personal & Cultural Resources: Using Life Experiences as an Entree Into Critical Literacy. Cultural Resources: Using Popular Culture to Promote Critical Practice. Cultural Resources: Using Children's Literature to Get Started With Critical Literacy. Critical Social Practices: Disrupting the Commonplace Through Critical Language Study. Critical Social Practices: Interrogating Multiple Viewpoints. Critical Social Practices: Focusing on the Sociopolitical. Critical Social Practices: Taking Social Action. Taking a Critical Stance: Outgrowing Ourselves. Invitations for Students. Classroom Resources: An Annotated List of Picture Books, Chapter Books, Videos, Songs, and Websites
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