Creating Critical Classrooms : Reading and Writing with an Edge.

Author/creator Lewison, Mitzi
Other author Leland, Christine.
Other author Harste, Jerome C. (Jerome Charles)
Format Electronic
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoHoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Description1 online resource (323 pages)
Supplemental ContentFull text
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Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Brief Contents; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Background; A Model of Critical Literacy Instruction; Personal and Cultural Resources; Critical Social Practice; Critical Stance; Moving Between the Personal and the Social; Situating the Model in Specific Contexts; Map of the Chapters; Companion Website; Chapter One / Overview: Why Do We Need an Instructional Theory of Critical Literacy?; Vignette: Morning Meeting: Contradictions and Possibilities; What Is Critical Literacy?; The Role of Theory in Critical Practice.
Contents A Model of Critical Literacy Instruction invitation for Disruption 1: What Is a Literate Being?; Invitation for Disruption 2: Cultural Models of Teachers in Literature; Voices from the Field: Critical Literacy in Action: Standing Up to Racial Profiling; Thought Piece: Keeping Your Head in These Political Times; Lingering Questions; Chapter Two / Personal and Cultural Resources: Using Life Experiences as an Entrée into Critical Literacy; Vignette: Writing Respect; What Can We Learn from Sara and Rachel's Experience in Room 4?; Invitation for Disruption 1: Unpacking Virtual Schoolbags.
Contents Theory 1: All Students Are Capable invitation for Disruption 2: Home-School Connections; Theory 2: Curriculum Needs to Relate Directly to the Lives of Our Students; Theory 3: Seeing Oneself in Literacy Is a Necessary First Step in Becoming Literate; Invitation for Disruption 3: Beliefs About Learning and Teaching; How Was Critical Literacy Enacted in Room 4?; Voices from the Field: Using Life Experiences: Finding Hope in Immigrant Stories; Thought Piece: Uncertainty and the Teaching of Reading and Writing; Lingering Questions.
Contents Chapter Three / Cultural Resources: Using Popular Culture to Promote Critical Practice vignette: The Great Bratz Debate; What Can We Learn from Kate's Experience?; Theory 1: Literacy Keeps Changing and Is Often Linked to Popular Culture; Theory 2: School Can Provide a Site for Interrogating Cultural Texts and Repositioning Oneself; Invitation for Disruption 1: Children as Consumers; Theory 3: Children Need to Develop the Language of Critique to be Truly Literate in the 21st Century; Invitation for Disruption 2: Thinking About Neoliberalism; How Critical Literacy Was Enacted in Kate's Classroom.
Contents Voices from the Field: Questioning Popular Culture: What Is Beauty?Thought Piece: Visual Literacy; Lingering Questions; Chapter Four / Cultural Resources: Using Children's and Young Adult Literature to Get Started with Critical Literacy; Vignette: How Critical Picture Books Changed a First Grade Classroom; What Can We Learn from Kim's Experience?; Theory 1: Teachers Don't Have to Work Alone; Invitation for Disruption 1: Investigating Students' Conversations About Books; Invitation for Disruption 2: Learning What Happens When Students Linger in Text; Theory 2: Lingering in Text Is Important.
Abstract This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy-in 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.
General noteTheory 3: Tension Drives the Learning Process.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionPrint version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Lewison, Mitzi. Creating Critical Classrooms : Reading and Writing with an Edge. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014
Genre/formElectronic books.
Genre/formCase studies.
ISBN9781317814917 (electronic bk.)
ISBN1317814916 (electronic bk.)
ISBN9781322032696
ISBN1322032696
Stock number634520 MIL

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