Overview of Critical Literacy

Step 2: Reflect on this research and your practice

Reflect on the following questions:

• What are the key points of the chapter?
• Which of the concepts and/or practices did you find surprising or intriguing? Why?
• Do you think that education is political? Why or why not?  How might educators be political in their practices?
• The curriculum requires that check-writing be taught? Do you think that this is a political practice? Why or why not?
• What about the expectation that students will want to find employment? Do you think that this is a political practice? Why or why not?
• How might the findings or practices in this chapter be important in your context?

Print the handout Four Degrees of Critical Pedagogy [PDF]. Reflect on the instructional and program practices in your own program. Mark where you believe your program rates on the chart.

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