HISTORY OF CRITICAL LITERACY
THEORY &
CRITICAL LITERACY AND ARTS
GROUP 9
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Agenda
History And Theory of Critical
Literacy
Critical Literacy in Practice
Critical Literacy and Social Action
Critical Literacy in Classroom
Relationship of Critical Thinking
Factors of Critical Literacy
Teaching Critical Literacy
Defining Critical Literacy to
become critically literate
Critical Literacy and the art
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WHAT IS CRITICAL
HISTORY?
• Critical literacy is a central
thinking skill that a tertiary
education seeks to develop in
students.
• It involves the questioning and
examination of ideas, and requires
you to synthesize, analyze,
interpret, evaluate and respond to
the texts you read or listen to.
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HISTORY AND THEORY OF CRITICAL LITERACY
• The term “critical literacy” was developed by social critical theorists
concerned with dismantling social injustice and inequalities.
• These critical theorists contend that unequal power relationships are
prevalent, and those in power are the ones who generally choose what truths
are to be privileged.
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CRITICAL LITERACY IN PRACTICE
The development of critical literacy
encourages students to question issues of
power — explicitly disparities within
social contexts like socio-economic status,
race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
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CRITICAL LITERACY AND SOCIAL
ACTION
There is often an activist component
to critical literacy education, where
the teacher serves as the facilitator
of social change.
When students learn to use the tools
of critical literacy, they can expose,
discuss, and attempt to solve social
injustices within their own lives.
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CRITICAL LITERACY IN CLASSROOM
Critical literacy theory focuses on the
relationships between language, power,
social practice, and access to social goods
and services, there are numerous methods
of engaging students in becoming critical
members of their society.
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RELATIONSHIP OF CRITICAL
THINKING
Critical literacy and critical thinking
involve similar steps and may overlap,
they are not interchangeable. Critical
thinking is done when one
troubleshoots problems and solves
them through a process involving logic
and mental analysis.
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FACTORS OF CRITICAL LITERACY
The first step of critical literacy
involves bringing awareness, or
"consciousness" as Freire terms it,
to those who are mistreated and to
those who bring about this
mistreatment through promoting
unfair ideologies via politics and
o t h e r p o s i t i o n s o f p o w e r, s u c h a s
schools and government.
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TEACHING CRITICAL LITERACY
No.
1
Teachers can help students take action by
expanding their mindsets to better
N understanding
o. the perspectives of other
2
overlooked groups in society and thus, grow
in appreciation for those who have a different
culture and language than they do.
No.
3
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DEFINING CRITICAL LITERACY TO
BECOME CRITICALLY LITERATE
Addressing critical literacy we are
concerned with the extent to which, and
the ways in
Which, actual and possible social
practices and conceptions of reading and
writing enable
Human subjects to understand and
engage the politics of daily life in the
quest for a more
Truly democratic social order.
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CRITICAL LITERACY AND ARTS
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CRITICAL LITERACY
AND ARTS
The Creation of artistic products by an individual and the perception and rejection upon
other's 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. Allows students to see how texts work to construct their world's their cultures, and their
identities in powerful often overtly ideological ways
2. Understand how they use texts as social tools in ways that allows for a reconstruction of
these same world's.
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CRITICAL LITERACY
AND ARTS
The arts, literacies and reality are dynamically
linked and the understanding attained by
critically reading aesthetic texts involves
perceiving the relationship between the art, it's
creator, and it's context. Both the practice and
understanding of art forms, and being critically
literate are interconnected.
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Thank you
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