Moving Critical Literacies Forward (eBook, PDF)

A New Look at Praxis Across Contexts
Redaktion: Pandya, Jessica; Ávila, Julianna

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Taking the pulse of current efforts to do-and, in some cases, undo-critical literacy, international authors explore and critique its implementation in learning contexts around the globe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134073993
• Artikelnr.: 40096604

Autorenporträt

Jessica Zacher Pandya is Associate Professor, California State University Long Beach, USA. JuliAnna Ávila is Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents

Foreword
Jerome C. Harste

Preface

1. Introduction: Making the Road by Talking: Moving Critical Literacies Forward
Jessica Zacher Pandya & JuliAnna Ávila

Section I. Theoretical Frameworks and Arguments for Critical Literacy

2. Defining Critical Literacy
Allan Luke

3. The Importance of Critical Literacy
Hilary Janks

4. Unrest in Grosvenor Square: Preparing for Power in Elite Boarding Schools, Working-Class Public Schools, and Socialist Sunday Schools
Patrick J. Finn

Section II. Critiquing Critical Literacy in Practice

5. Thinking critically in the land of princesses and giants: The affordances and challenges of critical approaches in the early years
Beryl Exley, Annette Woods & Karen Dooley

6. Where Poems Hide: Finding Reflective, Critical Spaces inside Writing Workshop
Amy Flint & Tasha Tropp Laman

7. Critical Literacy Across the Curriculum: Learning to read, question and re-write designs
Barbara Comber & Helen Nixon

8. Looking and Listening for Critical Literacy: Recognizing Ways Youth Perform Critical Literacy in School
Elisabeth Johnson & Lalitha Vasudevan

9. Communities as Counter-storytelling (Con)texts: The Role of Community-Based Educational Institutions in the Development of Critical Literacy and Transformative Action
Enid Rosario-Ramos & Laura Johnson

Section III. Revisions of Critical Literacy

10. Text Complexity: The Battle for Critical Literacy in the Common Core State Standards
Michael Moore, Don Zancanella & JuliAnna Ávila

11. What Counts as Critical Literacy in the Japanese Context: Its Possibilities and Practical Approaches Under the Global-National Curriculum
Shinya Takekawa

12. Standardizing, and Erasing, Critical Literacy in High-Stakes Settings
Jessica Zacher Pandya

13. Inquiry into the Incidental Unfolding of Social Justice Issues: 20 Years of Seeking Out Possibilities for Critical Literacies
Vivian Maria Vasquez

14. Conclusion: Affective and Global Ecologies: New Directions for Critical Literacy
Cynthia Lewis

List of Contributors
Index

Rezensionen

"Excellently framed, complete, and coherent, Moving Critical Literacies Forward summarises a great deal of relevant and up-to-date literature and makes old and new thinking accessible to others."

Alan Rogers, Honorary Professor University of East Anglia, UK

"Drawing from cutting-edge scholars and practitioners in Australia, South Africa, Europe, and North America, this volume provides current theoretical frameworks and tensions alongside notable exemplars of groundbreaking practice."

Noah Asher Golden, Instructor, Hunter College-City University of New York and Teachers College, USA