Doing Critical Literacy - Hilary Janks

Compelling and highly engaging this text shows teachers at all levels how to do critical literacy in the classroom and provides models for practice that can be adapted to any context. Integrating social theory and classroom practice it brings critical literacy to life as a socio-cultural orientation to the teaching of literacy that takes seriously the relationship between language and power and orients readers to the social effects of texts. Students and teachers are drawn into the key questions critical readers need to pose of texts: Whose interests are served who benefits who is disadvantaged; who is included and who is excluded? The practical activities help readers grasp complex issues. Extending the theoretical framework in Hilary Janks' Literacy and Power with a rich range of completely new up-to-date activities that translate theory into practice Doing Critical Literacy is powerful relevant and useful for both pre- and in-service teacher education and for use in schools.

TITLE: Doing Critical Literacy

AUTHOR: Hilary Janks

SKU: 9780415528108

PUBLISHER: Taylor & Francis Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 03/07/2013

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 166

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 216 mm x 279 mm

WEIGHT: 522 gr