2009
DOI: 10.1598/rt.62.6.7
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Walking in Their Shoes: Using Multiple‐Perspectives Texts as a Bridge to Critical Literacy

Abstract: Many teachers want to incorporate critical literacy into their instruction but are unsure of where to start. In this article, the authors pair Jones's (2006) three tenets of critical literacy (deconstruction, reconstruction, and social action) with books that highlight multiple perspectives. By combining this critical literacy framework with multiple‐perspectives texts, the authors share with readers some practical strategies at each stage that can be used in any elementary‐ or middle‐level classrooms. These s… Show more

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“…It can take the form of "small" action in the immediate surroundings of students but with a possibility to have repercussion at the global level. Social action may take the form of protesting against an author's gender bias (Hayik, 2015b(Hayik, , 2016; penning a letter to magazines demanding they include more perspectives (Clarke & Whitney, 2009;Harwood, 2008); or writing a letter to the authorities to express concerns with social justice issues in their communities (Jowallah, 2015;Torres, 2017). Teachers can also create social action projects involving the use of multimodal texts.…”
Section: Taking Social Actionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It can take the form of "small" action in the immediate surroundings of students but with a possibility to have repercussion at the global level. Social action may take the form of protesting against an author's gender bias (Hayik, 2015b(Hayik, , 2016; penning a letter to magazines demanding they include more perspectives (Clarke & Whitney, 2009;Harwood, 2008); or writing a letter to the authorities to express concerns with social justice issues in their communities (Jowallah, 2015;Torres, 2017). Teachers can also create social action projects involving the use of multimodal texts.…”
Section: Taking Social Actionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These include the development of oral language (Wu, 2009), vocabulary and comprehension (Edwards-Santoro et al, 2008), critical literacy (Clarke and Whitney, 2009) and written competence (Pantaleo, 2010). More broadly, book discussions enhance discipline-specific knowledge (Albright, 2002), collaborative skills (Pantaleo, 2004) and higher order thinking skills (Applebee, 1997;Clarke and Whitney, 2009;Murphy et al, 2009;Pantaleo, 2011;Pantaleo and Sipe, 2012). Classroom book discussions can also foster a love of reading and promote reader independence and intrinsic motivation to read (Cremin et al, 2009).…”
Section: Picturebook Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It means that the textbooks are still limited to support students to develop students' critical manner. Ideally, to support students' critical literacy, the textbooks should also contain multiple perspectives towards an issue since they are powerful to bridge critical literacy into learning activities in the classrooms (Clarke & Whitney, 2009). Thus, the texts should also contain some controversies issues to raise the awareness of multi-perspectives.…”
Section: Critical Literacy and Elt In Indonesian Contextmentioning
confidence: 99%