February 2024
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Championing “Critical Literacy” to LY Cultivate and Celebrate an AR RE O E F RS Equitable World O V IC AD CAT
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Maria Luisa Lebar Ontario President-Elect
Who are the students that we teach today? How do we implement a humanizing pedagogy that centres students’ identities so that they feel valued and respected in an ever-changing world? To begin, it is important to differentiate between critical thinking and critical literacy. Critical thinking skills require learners to make connections, inferences, Read More and interpretations so that they can deepen their understanding of texts read beyond the literal level. . Additionally, they must analyze a variety of texts by deconstructing the structural components, text and language features, and vocabulary that authors intentionally use to convey their message. As readers learn to analyze, they are also evaluating texts to determine the effectiveness of the choices authors make to create a text. Critical literacy strategies compel readers to think about how literacy skills can be used to make the world a better place. They, therefore, need to apply critical thinking skills such as analyzing and evaluating to use critical literacy strategies. What is different about critical literacy is that it focuses on issues connected with equity, fairness, and social justice. Readers adopt a critical stance as they analyze the perspectives of people with different identities, beliefs, interests, and values. The analysis process requires students to consider the author’s background, the time and place in which the text was created, and the schema and lived experiences of readers that shape how they interact with a text.
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