Creating Critical Classrooms K-8 Reading and Writing with an Edge

Name: Creating Critical Classrooms K-8 Reading and Writing with an Edge
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ISBN: 9780805862317

ISBN-10: 0805862315

ISBN-13: 9780805862317

Edition: 2008

Authors: Christine Leland, Jerome C. Harste, Linda Christensen, Mitzi Lewison

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This book for elementary and middle school teachers and literacy methods courses articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy instruction. 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. By providing both a model for critical literacy instruction and many examples of how critical practices can be enacted in daily school life in elementary and middle school classrooms, "Creating Critical Classrooms "meets a huge need for a…

Book details

List price: $55.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Carolyn Burke has the rare ability to take what is currently known and apply it to classroom instruction. A former first-grade teacher, Burke currently is Professor of Language Education at Indiana University and spends the bulk of her time teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in reading and writing education. She is well known for her work in miscue analysis and reading.



Foreword



Introduction


Overview: Why Do We Need a Theory of Critical Literacy?


Personal & Cultural Resources: Using Life Experiences as an Entree Into Critical Literacy


Cultural Resources: Using Popular Culture to Promote Critical Practice


Cultural Resources: Using Children's Literature to Get Started With Critical Literacy


Critical Social Practices: Disrupting the Commonplace Through Critical Language Study


Critical Social Practices: Interrogating Multiple Viewpoints


Critical Social Practices: Focusing on the Sociopolitical


Critical Social Practices: Taking Social Action


Taking a Critical Stance: Outgrowing Ourselves


Invitations for Students


Classroom Resources: An Annotated List of Picture Books, Chapter Books, Videos, Songs, and Websites


References