| Description |
1 online resource (170 pages) |
| Series |
Language, Culture, and Teaching Series |
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Language, culture, and teaching.
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| Contents |
Cover; Doing Critical Literacy; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the authors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Language and position; 2. Identity and diversity; 3. Language and language varieties; 4. Grammar as a resource for critical literacy; 5. Critical visual literacy; 6. Time, space and bodies; 7. Everyday texts; 8. Digital technologies; 9. Redesign-from critical awareness to social action; Notes; References |
| Summary |
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 disad |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Literacy -- Study and teaching
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Literacy -- Social aspects
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Power
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Literacy -- Social aspects
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Literacy -- Study and teaching
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dixon, Kerryn
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Ferreira, Ana
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Granville, Stella
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Newfield, Denise
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| ISBN |
9781136310768 |
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1136310762 |
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