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Creating Critical Classrooms:Lessons LearnedJerome C. HarsteProfessor, EmeritusLiteracy, Culture & Language EducationIndiana University
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Critical Literacy:  Front & Center*Here is why¡­
Critical Literacy:  Front & Center¡°Truth no longer exists, whatmatters these days¡­.is whatstories you spin.¡±Colin Lankshear
¡°We have to beware ofOrwellian speech ¨CBush¡¯s Clean Air Act Is a license to pollute.His Healthy Forest Initiative is a license toLog national forests.¡±¡°Frames trump facts.¡±George Lakoff
¡°The screen is overtaking the pageIn terms of the major vehicle ofcommunication.¡±Gunter Kress
¡°Kids are learning moreabout what it means to beliterate outside of school than in school.¡±-- James Paul Gee.
Marjorie Siegel¡°Curricula, despite all of our multimodal understandings, arestill way to verbocentric.¡±
¡°In today¡¯s environment if you don¡¯thave critical literacy you are a sucker,you are going to end up in debt, youare going to end up on the streets,  youare going to sign up with the first bankthat offers you a crummy mortgage, youare going to wind up with a big Visa carddebt, you are going to buy everything that is pushed your way.¡±Alan Luke
Barbara Comber¡¯s definition of ¡®Critical Thinking¡¯¡°¡­the use of language in powerful ways to get things done in the world, to enhance everyday life in schools and communities, and to question practices of privilege and injustice.¡±
¡°By analyzing visual information andteaching students to do the same, weprovide them with needed tools tointerrogate the very lifestyles they arebeing sold and to questions those billsof goods.¡±
¡°The goal of critical literacy is tocreate students who are agentsof textrather than victims of text.¡±
¡°Texts have designs on you.¡±Hilary Janks
¡°Inscribed Goats¡±  Watercolor collage 12¡± x 16¡± 2010
Critical Literacy:  Think Social Practices
¡°Everyday texts need to be aregular part of the Englishlanguage Arts classroom,not just for adolescents, butfor children from preschool on.¡±Vivian Vasquez
¡°There are multiple literacies.What is important is what social practices are in place asthat determines which literacieswe value and which literacies wedon¡¯t really value much.¡±--Brian Street
¡°I see curriculum as a metaphor for the lives you wish to live and the people you want to be.¡±¡°Live on a daily basis the curriculum you are advocating.¡±
Center for InquiryIndianapolis
Mount Saint Vincent UniversityHalifax, Nova ScotiaMaster of Arts, Critical LiteracyToronto, Ontario Program
Critical Literacy:  Curricular Resources*Children¡¯s Literature isa good place to start
Multicultural, International, &Social Issue Bookshttp://mypage.iu.edu/~harste
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Critical Literacy:  Making the Familiar Strange*Enjoy, Dig Deeply, Talk Back
Peggy I want Sha-Na-Na¡¯sLittle Red Riding Hood to play here via aClick.
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Remix Fairly TalesCritical Literacy:  Curricular Resources*Making the Familiar Strangee
Pat Smith¡¯s I Like, I Dislike Strategy4 ColumnsI Like
I Dislike
Patterns
Problems or PuzzlesLinda Christensen¡¯s Target-Perpetrator-Bystander-Ally Strategy4 Columns*Target*Perpetrator*Bystander*Ally
Thinking DeeplyAbout EverydayTexts*.*Who wrote this text?Why was this text written?*Who is it written for?*Whose voices are notincluded?  Or what wasn¡¯t said?*How could it be?*An example of a curricularinvitation.
Saying  & Thinking Post-It Note for:The music teacherThe music studentThe parent listeningand waiting for his kid to finish up.
¡°Curriculum should bewritten in pen, neverin pen.¡±
Expanding What Countsas Literacy
http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out.html
Using Art to Change the World
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Have ABlast!!!
Billboards for the rich,Spray cans for the poor.
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Jacob Lawrence¡°The Glory of Expression¡±
Because I believe teacher can¡¯t do for childrenwhat they haven¡¯t done for themselves:Invitation:  Using Jacob Lawrence as yourmodel, create a piece of art that makes a statement about the direction you thinkliteracy and literacy education needs to be takiing.
A complete discussion ofCritical Literacy has toInclude:*A Theory of Dominance*A Theory of Access*A Theory of Diversity*A Theory of Re-Design
Gallery Walk:  Making It Public
 Introductory frames of two PSAs,Created Collaboratively and Focused on Social Issues.
¡°Language Study¡±  Broadly Defined*What do various communicationsystems afford?
Cultural Models
Frames
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