Critical literacies in action : : social perspectives and teaching practices / / Karyn Cooper, Robert E. White.

Critical Literacies in Action: Social Perspectives and Teaching Practices asks how educators can become more experienced in order to truly support literacy, particularly for children of poverty or for those who have been labeled “at-risk”. This is especially important in current times, since a liter...

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Superior document:Transgressions (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; 34
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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam, The Netherlands ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Transgressions (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; 34.
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Karyn Cooper and Robert E. White
  • Of Critical Theory and Critical Literacy: Connections to the Legacy of Critical Theory / John Willinsky
  • Above and Beyond: Critical Literacies for the New Millennium / Robert E. White
  • Critical Alternatives: Solutions to Ease Discrimination, Oppression, and Youth Violence / Wendy M. Pullin and Karyn Cooper
  • Engaging and Critiquing Challenge in the Process Drama Classroom: Socio-Economic Status as Topic and Resource / Kelly Freebody and Peter Freebody
  • Traveling Objects and Reconfiguring Identities: Meaning-Making and Multi-Modalities / Kate Pahl and Jennifer Rowsell
  • Uncomfortable Positionings: Critical Literacy and Identity in a Post-Apartheid University Classroom / Carolyn McKinney
  • Outside More Common Spaces for Critical Literacy: Exploring Issues of Language and Power / Vivian Vasquez and Sarah Vander Zanden
  • Countering the Rhetoric of Warfare: A Framework for Practical Media Criticism and Curriculum on the War in Iraq / Jonathan Arendt
  • “Basic Information Structure” and “Academic Language”: An Approach to Discourse Analysis / James Paul Gee
  • Critical Literacy: Methods, Models and Motivation / Hilary Janks
  • “Am I a Couch Potato?” Blog: Blogging as a Critical Literacy Practice / Jackie Marsh
  • The Difference of Critical Literacy: A Diverse Discourse Dialogue on “Taken-for-Granted Practices” in English Education / Peter Trifonas and Greg O’Leary
  • About the Contributors / Karyn Cooper and Robert E. White
  • Volume / Karyn Cooper and Robert E. White.