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What is Critical Literacy
1.
The act of analyzing texts to perceive hidden or underlying messages.
Learn more in: The Role of Graphic Novels in K-12 Classrooms
2.
An approach to learning that encourages students to engage with and interrogate a variety of texts in order to understand the language of power and the structures that shape their lives.
Learn more in: Creating the Citizen: Critical Literacy, Civics, and the C3 Framework in Social Studies
3.
The ability to use language to interrogate the relationship between language and power; to analyse popular culture and media and to understand how power relations are socially constructed and to consider actions that can encourage social justice.
Learn more in: Fostering True Literacy in the Commonwealth Caribbean: Bridging the Cultures of Home and School
4.
an approach to education that focuses on the ways
literacy
can be used for social justice. It focuses on the analysis of texts and considers the ways in which they are not neutral but are positioned and are positioning.
Learn more in: Formative Assessment in a Teacher Education Course: Supporting Teachers to Teach Critical Literacy to Young Children
5.
An approach to
literacy
that goes beyond decoding and encoding and focuses on the meaning embedded in texts.
Learn more in: An Overview of Multilingual Learners' Literacy Needs for the 21st Century
6.
An approach used to foster students’ in-depth analysis of texts by making connections to broader social issues.
Learn more in: “I Will Never Look at This Movie the Same Again”: Using Critical Literacy to Examine Popular Culture Texts Helps Adolescents Critique Social Issues
7.
The origin of
critical literacy
is traced back to Marxist
critical
pedagogy which strongly supported approaching and analyzing texts through a
critical
viewpoint to identify hidden or implicit concepts, beliefs, and practices. In its contemporary form,
critical literacy
is perceived as a teaching strategy, or the ability to identify in texts or media (un)conscious bias and social inequalities with an ultimate goal to peacefully fight against them.
Learn more in: Sharpening Students' Critical Literacy Skills Through Corpus-Based Instruction: Addressing the Issue of Language Sexism
8.
The study and practice of the relationship and power of texts, and its impact and relevance to the reader/learner.
Learn more in: Staying Connected-Rooting Literacy Courses in Current Topics and Relevant Teaching Practices
9.
Process by which a reader analyzes a text within the political, historical, and social contexts in which it was created or is being interpreted. Involves interrogating power structures, disrupting the status quo, and considering multiple viewpoints.
Learn more in: Critical Reading, Critical Literacy, and Critical Classrooms: The Power of Using Picturebooks With Preservice Teachers
10.
Learning to read and write as part of the process of becoming conscious of one’s experience as historically constructed within specific power relations.
Critical literacy
moves the reader’s focus away from the “self” in
critical
reading to the interpretation of texts in different environmental and cultural contexts.
Learn more in: Empowering Multilingual Learners Through Critical Liberating Literacy Practices in English-Dominated Speech Communities
11.
The use of the word “
critical
” emphasizes two aspects of a holistic definition of information
literacy
. The word “
critical
” has connotations of evaluating information carefully, of making a critique of it. Another meaning of the word “
critical
” relates to its use in discussion of societal power; in this sense an information-literate person is one who realized the social, cultural, and political implications of information. Information is not value-free.
Learn more in: Information Literacy in the 21st Century
12.
A perspective towards texts where readers identify, question, disrupt, reimagine and reshape the different versions of the world that are portrayed, understanding that language and texts are never neutral ( Rodríguez Martínez, 2017 ).
Learn more in: Toward a Participatory View of Early Literacies in Second Language Contexts: A Reflection on Research From Colombia
13.
Interpreting and composing texts so as to transform our own or others’ lives, champion social justice issues, or advocate for political or social purposes.
Learn more in: Critical Literacy and Genre Pedagogy: Supporting Inclusion, Subverting Bias
14.
An examination of the relationship between language and power in texts. Consists of four dimensions: Interrogating multiple perspectives; disrupting commonly held assumptions; examining relationships involving power; and taking action and promoting social justice.
Learn more in: Using the Children's Literature Course to Promote Teacher Candidates' Cultural Competence
15.
Knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to
critical
ly examine and evaluate societal issues.
Learn more in: A Deep Dive Into How Critical Literacy Experts Advance Equity and Social Justice: Definitions and Practices
16.
The use of reading and writing to achieve political action and social equity.
Learn more in: Critical Literacy and Technology: An Essential Intersection for Our Nation's Schools
17.
Reading a text carefully and asking questions such as who does this text include and exclude, and how is power and privilege evident.
Learn more in: Seeking Justice in Your Own Backyard: Creating PSAs for Social Change
18.
The act of taking apart a text and relating its messages back to one’s own personal life experiences. This act of actively engaging with text that can help students to become more socially aware citizens.
Learn more in: Case Study of Urban 4th/5th Grade Teachers and Students Engaged With E-Texts
19.
Critical literacy
is the ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships.
Learn more in: Disposition and Early Childhood Education Preservice Teachers: A Social Justice Stance
20.
A questioning perspective that involves challenging assumptions, noticing instances of inequality or oppression, and participating in social action in the pursuit of justice and equity.
Learn more in: A Framework for Evaluating Children's Books About Poverty
21.
An approach to
literacy
that invites
critical
inquiry into the author’s purpose, point of view, and positioning of the reading.
Learn more in: Up Close and Personal: Hosting Diverse Authors
22.
Analytical thinking habits used to discover deeper meaning in social phenomenon.
Learn more in: Utilizing Feminist Pedagogy to Foster Preservice Teachers' Critical Consciousness
23.
Critical
ly analyze and evaluate the meaning of texts as they relate to topics on equity, power and social justice.
Learn more in: Online Teaching: Taking Advantage of Complexity to See What We Did Not Notice Before
24.
The ability to access, use and evaluate information. It is also known as
critical
thinking.
Learn more in: Brazilian Policy and Actions to Fight Against Fake News: A Discussion Focused on Critical Literacy
25.
An emancipatory endeavor centered on interrogating issues of power, representation, and marginalization. Who is acknowledged and who is silenced in a text becomes crucial, along with the understanding that no text is neutral.
Learn more in: Digital Media and Cosmopolitan Critical Literacy: Research and Practice
26.
In Bloom’s taxonomy, higher order thinking that demonstrates an analytical and evaluative approach to problem solving that goes beyond learning exercises.
Learn more in: A Case Study of Instructional Delivery Formats
27.
A learning approach where students examine varied texts to understand the relationship between the language and power or domination in society by
critical
ly analyzing and evaluating the meaning of texts as they relate to issues of equity, power, and social justice ( Freire & Macedo, 1987 ).
Learn more in: Using Multicultural Children's Literature to Leverage Student Cultural Competence and Promote Social Justice
28.
A framework or lens for reading and analyzing texts that grew out of the theory of Freire (1970) and often focuses on the examination of texts through multiple perspectives and issues of power and social justice.
Learn more in: Developing a Children's Literature Course to Facilitate Pre-Service Teachers' Understanding of Culturally Relevant Texts
29.
Is the act of digging deep to identify truths within a text that may be hidden by layers of context. It is also a way to examine texts to identify aspects that are expressed as truths, but upon further inspection are often the way society has accepted instead of challenging the status quo and deciding if the “thing” is good for society or not.
Learn more in: Critical Literacy Through Administrative Eyes
30.
The act of taking apart a text and relating its messages back to one’s own personal life experiences. This act of actively engaging with text that can help students to become more socially aware citizens.
Learn more in: Social Action Literacy for Elementary Teachers
31.
Critical literacy
is defined as a
literacy
practice that explore race and gender and challenges the dominant ideology inherent in text---the tenets of disrupting a common situation or understanding; and examining multiple viewpoints.
Learn more in: Creating Spaces for Critical Literacy for Bilingual Learners: Korean Kindergartners' Discussions About Race and Gender
32.
“Learning to read and write as part of the process of becoming conscious of one's experience as historically constructed within specific power relations” (Anderson & Irvine, 1990 AU35: The in-text citation "Anderson & Irvine, 1990" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. , p. 82).
Learn more in: Critical Information Literacy in the Geographic and Information Sciences
33.
Analyzing concepts within text for power relationships that might otherwise go unnoticed, to create a self-awareness.
Learn more in: Challenging the Poverty Narrative Through Children's Literature
34.
The act of evaluating power, equity, injustice, and other sociopolitical systems while engaging with texts and other materials.
Learn more in: A Framework for Discussion in a Post-COVID World: Supporting Discussion in Virtual Learning Spaces
35.
A framework for
literacy
instruction within which teachers model and guide students in considering multiple perspectives of a text in order to determine which messages privilege certain groups.
Critical literacy
involves the ability to “read the world” through a
critical
perspective, considering potential sources of political or other influence.
Learn more in: Cultivating Social Justice Through Explorations of Multimodal Pop Culture Texts
36.
“ More advanced cognitive skills, which together with social skills, can be applied to
critical
ly analyze information, and to use this information to exert greater control over life events and situations” ( Nutbeam, 2000 ).
Learn more in: Health Literacy: An Essential Ingredient for Better Health Outcomes – Overview of Health Literacy Theoretical Concepts
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