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What is critical literacy? |
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Critical literacy, as understood by those who coined the term, is the "use of language in all of its forms, as in thinking, solving problems, or communicating" (Venezky 1982). | |
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More generally, critical literacy is an approach to literacy which emphasizes the external context of the learner and the learner's relationship to that context. | |
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Critical literacy often embraces themes of confrontation, power, control, domination, self-construction, awareness, and topics of political and economic analysis. Strong forms of critical literacy equate literacy to understanding the external world. Reading is understanding that world; writing is reshaping it. | |
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