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- Title
Empowerment through Critical Literacy: Teaching that Inspires Hope.
- Authors
Taylor, Carolyn R.; Brown, Queen H.
- Abstract
This paper addresses a critical concern in education linked to reading and literacy skills that are integral to success in all content areas of the curriculum. It examines how language and power structures in the classrooms operate to form barriers of culture, class, and gender issues that favor the success of one group over another. Critical literacy, more specifically, opens the doors to the "language of power" that can transform students to become actively engaged in what they read and how they interpret what they read. This level of literacy serves as an empowerment tool for those students who have been left out of the conversation and this empowerment evolves into a newly instilled "hope" in the educational system.
- Subjects
READING; LITERACY; GENERAL education; CURRICULUM; LEARNING strategies; READING strategies; TEACHER training; READING -- Language experience approach; EDUCATIONAL anthropology
- Publication
Southeastern Teacher Education Journal, 2009, Vol 2, Issue 4, p25
- ISSN
1945-3744
- Publication type
Article