1st Edition

Reconsidering Primary Literacy Enabling Children to Become Critically Literate

By Kelly Stone Copyright 2017
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This is an accessible guide to critical literacy, a process in which learners are encouraged to challenge and critique language and social practices and actively transform what they see as unjust or unfair. Crucial critical literacy concepts such as access, power, reconstruction and transformation are explored in respect of both the wider literature and as they relate to the experiences and... Read more

1. Introduction

2. My story

3. Caroline’s story

4. Deena’s story

5. Ian’s story

6. Linda’s story

7. Liz’s story

8. Carol’s story

9. Critical literacy and social class

10. Critical literacy and new technologies

11. Final reflections

Biography

Kelly Stone is a lecturer in Primary Education (Early Literacies) at Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, UK.