Overview
- Shows how critical literacy can be applied in and beyond the classroom setting
- Offers a balance of theory and practice that leads to successful critical literacy practices in education
- Stresses the importance of critical literacy in bringing about critical consciousness and social justice
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Overview of the Book
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Critical Literacy Practice in Elementary School Settings
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Critical Literacy Practice in Secondary School Settings
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Critical Literacy Practice in University Settings
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Conclusion
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bogum Yoon, Ph. D. is an associate professor of literacy education in the Graduate School of Education at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She has worked in the field of language and literacy as a teacher educator both in South Korea and the United States. Yoon’s research areas include critical literacy, multicultural education, English language learners and cultural and social identity. Her most recent articles are published in the American Educational Research Journal, The Reading Teacher and the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. Yoon’s co-edited book, Teachers’ Roles in Second Language Learning: Classroom Applications of Sociocultural Theory has been recently published.
Rukhsar Sharif is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Education at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She has taught preschool and elementary school students in New York and middle and high school students in Rwanda. Recently, she has been involvedin conducting research in the fields of multicultural education and critical theory in the university context.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Literacy Practice
Book Subtitle: Applications of Critical Theory in Diverse Settings
Editors: Bogum Yoon, Rukhsar Sharif
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-567-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-566-2Published: 26 August 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1258-7Published: 23 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-567-9Published: 17 August 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 215
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literacy