Creating Critical Classrooms: K-8 Reading and Writing With an Edge - Softcover

Lewison, Mitzi; Leland, Christine; Harste, Jerome

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805862315 ISBN 13: 9780805862317

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

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 practical, theoretically based text on this topic.
 

About this title

About the Author

Mitzi Lewison, Christine Leland, Jerome Harste 

Indiana University, USA

Review

“Creating Critical Classrooms provides a curricular conscience to teachers. The collection of vignettes, thought pieces, and invitations pulls out a chair at the table as teachers and professors discuss classroom practice in light of critical theory.... This work...demonstrates exemplary literacy practices, but also demonstrates education that ‘liberates’ instead of ‘domesticates’ or ‘alienates.’....   [It] is culturally sensitive, critically astute—and absolutely essential for teachers and teacher educators today.”
—Linda Christensen
Rethinking Schools, From the Foreword

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0805862315
• ISBN 13: 9780805862317
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392