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Critical Literacy Initiatives for Civic Engagement
Is an author who actively worked to help those who are oppressed break from their oppression.
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Critical Literacy Through Administrative Eyes
Amanda Mann (Walters Public Schools, USA)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8082-9.ch009
Abstract
This chapter speaks to the way educational leaders, specifically site principals, can support and guide teachers to implement critical literacy strategies into their classrooms. While literacy specifically relates to texts, it can also be identified as discourse as well. However, finding ways for administrators to encourage teachers to allow students the opportunity to develop the ability to express their critical analysis through conversations and presentations as well as through writing can be a challenge. Nonetheless, preparing students for critical literacy and critical discourse is an essential skill in the 21st century and beyond.
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Formative Assessment in a Teacher Education Course: Supporting Teachers to Teach Critical Literacy to Young Children
a Brazilian educator whose work in the 1970s has been highly influential. He is one of the early proponents of a critical literacy approach. He believed that students and teachers needed to become conscious of unequal power relations in the world and in order to make the world more just dialogic reflection and action was required.
Published in Chapter: Formative Assessment in a Teacher Education Course: Supporting Teachers to Teach Critical Literacy to Young Children; From: Handbook of Research on Formative Assessment in Pre-K Through Elementary Classrooms
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Utilizing Feminist Pedagogy to Foster Preservice Teachers' Critical Consciousness
A Brazilian educator and philosopher most known for his scholarship on liberating oppressed people through critical pedagogy.
Published in Chapter: Utilizing Feminist Pedagogy to Foster Preservice Teachers' Critical Consciousness; From: Integrating Social Justice Education in Teacher Preparation Programs
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