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Moving Critical Literacies Forward: A New Look at Praxis Across Contexts book cover

1st Edition

Moving Critical Literacies Forward A New Look at Praxis Across Contexts

Edited By Jessica Pandya, JuliAnna Ávila Copyright 2014
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge
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Taking the pulse of current efforts to do—and, in some cases, undo—critical literacy, this volume explores and critiques its implementation in learning contexts around the globe. An impressive set of international authors offer examples of productive critical literacy practices in and out of schools, address the tensions and gaps between these practices and educational policies, and attempt to... Read more

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

Biography

Jessica Zacher Pandya is Associate Professor, California State University Long Beach, USA.

JuliAnna Ávila is Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA.

"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
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