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CHAPTER 8

CRITICAL
LITERACY
Objectives
At the end of this chapter, you should be able to:

• characterize critical
literacy;
• discuss a brief background of critical literacy
theory; and
• apply principles of critical literacy in
designing lessons and classroom
CRITICAL
LITERACY
Critical literacy
is a central thinking skill that involves the questioning
and examination of ideas, and requires one to
synthesize, analyze, interpret, evaluate, and respond to
the texts read or listened to (University of Melbourne,
2018).
Critical Literacy and the Arts
The creation of artistic products by an individual and the perception and rejection
upon others' artworks showcase the power of critical literacies at work within Arts
contexts. Luke (2000) argues that it is the primary aim of critical literacy to:

1. allow students to see how texts work to construct their


worlds, their cultures, and their identities in powerful, often
overtly ideological ways; and
2. understand how they use texts as social tools in
reconstruction of these same worlds.
Freebody and Luke (cited in Luke, 2000) developed a four-tiered approach to
early reading instruction that has now been widely adapted across Australian
schools. These approaches are necessary but not sufficient sets of social practices
requisite for critical literacy. A recent version of the model offered the following
descriptions (Freebody, 1992; Luke & Freebody, 1997):

• Coding Practices: Developing Resources as a Code Beaker


• Text-Meaning Practices : Developing Resources as a Text Participant
• Pragmatic Practices : Developing Resources as Text User
• Critical Practices : Developing Resources as Text Analyst and Critic
Textual Analysis
a method of studying a text in order to understand the
various meanings by identifying the who, what,
when, where, why, and how of a text.
Another approach for analyzing texts is to use a checklist such as
CARS (Credibility. Accuracy. Reasonableness, Support), which was
originally developed for use in evaluating web sites.

• Credibility
• Accuracy
• Reasonableness
• Support
Text Clustering
Text clustering involves confronting students with texts
which obviously contradict each other. The task is to use
whatever evidence they can find to try to make judgements
about where the truth actually lies. Sometimes these
judgements are relatively easy.
THANKS
FOR
LISTENING!

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