Moving Critical Literacies Forward A New Look at Praxis Across Contexts [Paperback]

Taking the pulse of current efforts to doand, in some cases, undocritical literacy, this volume explores and critiques its implementation in learning contexts around the globe. An impressive set of international authors offer examples of productive critical literacy practices in and out of schools, address the tensions and gaps between these practices and educational policies, and attempt to forecast the future for critical literacy as a movement in the changing global educational policy landscape. This collection is unique in presenting the recent work of luminaries such as Allan Luke and Hilary Janks alongside relative newcomers who use innovative approaches and arguments to reinvigorate and redefine critical practice. It is time for this cutting-edge inquiry into the state of critical literacynot only because is it a complex and ever-evolving field, but perhaps more important, because it offers a reaction to, and powerful reworking of, standardization and high-stakes accountability measures in educational contexts around the globe.

Contents

Foreword
   Jerome C. Harste

Preface

1. Introduction: Making the Road by Talking: Moving Critical Literacies Forward
   Jessica Zacher Pandya & JuliAnna ?vila

Section I. Theoretical Frameworks and Arguments for Critical Literacy

2. Defining Critical Literacy
   Allan Luke

3. The Importance of Critical Literacy
   Hilary Janks

4. Unrest in Grosvenor Square: Preparing for Power in Elite Boarding Schools, Working-Class Public Schools, and Socialist Sunday Schools
   Patrick J. Finn

Section II. Critiquing Critical Literacy in Practice  

5. Thinking critically in the land of princesses and giants: The affordances and challenges of criticlS.