Critical literacy in the classroom : the art of the possible / Wendy Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Wendy, 1944- author.

Morgan W Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts (Secondary)--Australia.

Language arts (Secondary).

Critical pedagogy--Australia.

Critical pedagogy.

Discourse analysis--Australia.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 219 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 in syllabuses, government reports and the like. It: * bridges the gap between academics' theorizing and teachers' work * describes how secondary teachers have planned and implemented critical literacy curricula on a range of topics, from Shakespeare to the workplace * listens to teachers reflecting on their teaching and analyses classroom talk * extrapolates from present practice to a future critical literacy in a digitised, hypermedia world. Teachers and students of education, critical literacy advocates and theorists of literacy and schooling can learn much more from this book, which shows how critical literacy teachers, and their students are contributing to the ongoing reinvention of English education as critical literacy.

Contents:

chapter 1 Mapping the terrain of critical literacy

Language, society and schooling

chapter 2 Reading curricula

chapter 3 School writing and textual selves

chapter 4 Between authority and freedom

Teachers negotiating the discourses of English

chapter 5 Classroom talk

Business as usual

chapter 6 ‘A Daniel come to judgement’

chapter 7 POSTMODERN CLASSROOMS ON THE BORDERS?.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-214) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-76576-2

1-280-33124-0

1-134-76577-0

0-203-28248-5

0-203-03432-5

9780203034323

OCLC:

50304916