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- 1. Creating Critical Classrooms:Lessons LearnedJerome C. HarsteProfessor, EmeritusLiteracy, Culture & Language EducationIndiana University
- 4. Critical Literacy: Front & Center*Here is why¡
- 5. Critical Literacy: Front & Center¡°Truth no longer exists, whatmatters these days¡.is whatstories you spin.¡±Colin Lankshear
- 6. ¡°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
- 7. ¡°The screen is overtaking the pageIn terms of the major vehicle ofcommunication.¡±Gunter Kress
- 8. ¡°Kids are learning moreabout what it means to beliterate outside of school than in school.¡±-- James Paul Gee.
- 9. Marjorie Siegel¡°Curricula, despite all of our multimodal understandings, arestill way to verbocentric.¡±
- 10. ¡°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
- 11. 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.¡±
- 12. ¡°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.¡±
- 13. ¡°The goal of critical literacy is tocreate students who are agentsof textrather than victims of text.¡±
- 14. ¡°Texts have designs on you.¡±Hilary Janks
- 15. ¡°Inscribed Goats¡± Watercolor collage 12¡± x 16¡± 2010
- 16. Critical Literacy: Think Social Practices
- 17. ¡°Everyday texts need to be aregular part of the Englishlanguage Arts classroom,not just for adolescents, butfor children from preschool on.¡±Vivian Vasquez
- 18. ¡°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
- 19. ¡°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.¡±
- 21. Mount Saint Vincent UniversityHalifax, Nova ScotiaMaster of Arts, Critical LiteracyToronto, Ontario Program
- 22. Critical Literacy: Curricular Resources*Children¡¯s Literature isa good place to start
- 23. Multicultural, International, &Social Issue Bookshttp://mypage.iu.edu/~harste
- 45. Critical Literacy: Making the Familiar Strange*Enjoy, Dig Deeply, Talk Back
- 46. Peggy I want Sha-Na-Na¡¯sLittle Red Riding Hood to play here via aClick.
- 48. Remix Fairly TalesCritical Literacy: Curricular Resources*Making the Familiar Strangee
- 49. Pat Smith¡¯s I Like, I Dislike Strategy4 ColumnsI Like
- 50. I Dislike
- 51. Patterns
- 52. Problems or PuzzlesLinda Christensen¡¯s Target-Perpetrator-Bystander-Ally Strategy4 Columns*Target*Perpetrator*Bystander*Ally
- 53. 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.
- 54. Saying & Thinking Post-It Note for:The music teacherThe music studentThe parent listeningand waiting for his kid to finish up.
- 55. ¡°Curriculum should bewritten in pen, neverin pen.¡±
- 56. Expanding What Countsas Literacy
- 58. Using Art to Change the World
- 63. Have ABlast!!!
- 64. Billboards for the rich,Spray cans for the poor.
- 66. Jacob Lawrence¡°The Glory of Expression¡±
- 67. 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.
- 68. A complete discussion ofCritical Literacy has toInclude:*A Theory of Dominance*A Theory of Access*A Theory of Diversity*A Theory of Re-Design
- 69. Gallery Walk: Making It Public
- 70. Introductory frames of two PSAs,Created Collaboratively and Focused on Social Issues.
- 71. ¡°Language Study¡± Broadly Defined*What do various communicationsystems afford?
- 72. Cultural Models
- 73. Frames
- 76. .IdealIdealHere& Nowand NowFocusNew RealRealGazeVectorsColorsExaggeration
- 79. Conclusion