#DisruptTexts as Guidance
(Module 3, p10) Teachers can also follow the four core principles from #DisruptTexts to also help inform their decision making process when developing curriculum.
Critial Literacy Definition
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As a social practice, critical literacy is a tool to study and reform existing social, cultural, and political systems, including education (Shor, 1999).
Critial Literacy Definition
2
‘‘Critical literacy is an overtly political orientation to teaching and learning and to the cultural, ideological, and sociolinguistic content of the curriculum. It is focused on the uses of literacy for social justice in marginalized and disenfranchised communities’’ (Luke, 2012, p. 5).
Critial Literacy Definition
3
Critical literacy is a tool “enabling young people to read both the word and the world in relation to power, identity, difference, and access to knowledge, skills, tools, and resources” (Janks, 2013, p. 227).
What all these definitions have in common is that they ask students to:
evaluate multiple viewpoints, focus on sociopolitical issues, and encourage students to move towards action in the pursuit of social justice.