Creating Critical Classrooms
Reading and Writing with an Edge
Mitzi Lewison, Christine Leland, Jerome C. Harste
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Creating Critical Classrooms
Reading and Writing with an Edge
Mitzi Lewison, Christine Leland, Jerome C. Harste
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This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacyâin all its complexity. 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.
Pedagogical features in each chapter
âą Teacher-researcher Vignette
âą Theories that Inform Practice
âą Critical Literacy Chart
âą Thought Piece
âą Invitations for Disruption
âą Lingering Questions
New in the Second Edition
âą End-of-chapter "Voices from the Field"
âą More upper elementary-grade examples
âą New text sets drawn from "Classroom Resources"
âą Streamlined, restructured, revised, and updated throughout
âą Expanded Companion Website now includes annotated Classroom Resources; Text Sets; Resources by Chapter; Invitations for Students; Literacy Strategies; Additional Resources
Foire aux questions
Informations
Chapter 1
Overview
Vignette
Research Questions
- What causes food throwing? Is this a problem? What causes âno trash-backs?â
- What happens when people save seats? How many people save seats?
- What makes the lunchroom loud? What is too loud?
- How does a chain reaction happen? What is a chain reaction?
- What do people like about the lunchroom?
- What do people not like about this space?
What Is Critical Literacy?
Personally Responsible Citizen | Participatory Citizen Description | Justice-Oriented Citizen |
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Sample Action | ||
Contributes food to a food drive | Helps to organize a food drive | Explores why people are hungry and acts to solve root causes |
Core Assumptions | ||
To solve social problems and improve society, citizens must have good character; they must be honest, responsible, and law abiding members of the community. | To solve social problems and improve society, citizens must actively participate and take leadership positions within established systems and community structures. | To solve social problems and improve society, citizens must question, debate, and change established systems and structures when they reproduce patterns of injustice over time. |