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Zusatztext "This book has integrity – in more than one meaning of the word. Hilary Janks sets out to describe and exemplify an integrated model of critical literacy which includes both cognitive skills and social practices but she is herself a writer of proven professional integrity. One of the attractive features of this book – and there are many – is that the author includes the important historical dimension as she outlines the development of critical literacy theory and practice…. Janks’ view of diversity as a productive resource for social and cultural transformation speaks to any of us, wherever we live and work."--Literacy, the journal of the UK Literacy Association"The book offers a mapping of a sphere for action that is thoughtful, hopeful and profoundly practical."--Reading & Writing"Janks accomplishes what she intended: step by step, one chapter at a time, she refines her interdependent model of critical literacy and clearly explains it to the readers. Her work in strongly grounded in theories and practice. All readers, from administrators to classroom teachers, from teacher educators to graduate students, will benefit from reading this book."--Education Review Informationen zum Autor Hilary Janks is a professor in Applied English Language Studies in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Klappentext Is literacy a skill or a social practice? In what ways is literacy embodied? Do texts have designs on us and what can we do about it? How does language construct reality? What is 'linguistic capital' and who has it? Who gets access to new literacies and who is excluded? This title addresses these questions. Zusammenfassung Janks shows how competing orientations to critical literacy education – power, access, diversity, design – foreground one over the other. Her central argument is that these different orientations are crucially interdependent and need to work together to create new possibilities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword, Sonia Nieto Preface Acknowledgments 1. Turning to Literacy 2. Orientations to Literacy 3. Language and Power 4. Reading Texts Critically 5. Diversity, Difference and Disparity 6. Access, Gate-Keeping and Desire 7. Critical Text Production: Writing and Design 8. Redesign, Social Action and Possibilities for Transformation 9. The Future of Critical Literacy References Index ...
