Creating Critical Classrooms: Reading and Writing with an Edge

by Jerome C. Harste, Christine Leland, Mitzi A. Lewison

Book Overview

This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy-in all its complexity. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415737737
• ISBN13: 9780415737739
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.9"