1st Edition
Critical Literacy in the Classroom The Art of the Possible
By Wendy Morgan
Copyright 1997
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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Critical literacy investigates how forms of knowledge, and the power they bring, are created in language and taken up by those who use texts. It asks how language might be put to different, more equitable uses, and how texts might be recreated in a way that would tell a different story. This book is a carefully documented and critically analysed example of the growing emphasis on critical literacy... Read more
Preface, Acknowledgements, 1 Mapping the terrain of critical literacy: language, society and schooling, 2 Reading curricula, 3 School writing and textual selves, 4 Between authority and freedom: teachers negotiating the discourses of English, 5 Classroom talk: business as usual, 6 ‘A Daniel come to judgement’, 7 Postmodern classrooms on the borders?, Coda, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Morgan, Wendy
'Secondary school teachers, postgraduate students, and all those interested in critical literacy, will find this a useful text.' - The National Literacy Trust's 1997 International Annotated Bibliography of Books on Literacy.
'This is an intelligent and scholarly book ... the book's unique qualities will make it a valuable resource for any teacher wishing to pursue critical literacy perspectives in their own classroom.' - Educational Review
