Moving Critical Literacies Forward

Jessica Zacher Pandya is Associate Professor, California State University Long Beach, USA. JuliAnna Ávila is Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA.

"Excellently framed, complete, and coherent, Moving Critical Literacies Forward summarises a great deal of relevant and up-to-date literature and makes old and new thinking accessible to others."Alan Rogers, Honorary Professor University of East Anglia, UK"Drawing from cutting-edge scholars and practitioners in Australia, South Africa, Europe, and North America, this volume provides current theoretical frameworks and tensions alongside notable exemplars of groundbreaking practice."Noah Asher Golden, Instructor, Hunter College—City University of New York and Teachers College, USA

• ContentsForewordJerome C. HarstePreface 1. Introduction: Making the Road by Talking: Moving Critical Literacies ForwardJessica Zacher Pandya & JuliAnna ÁvilaSection I. Theoretical Frameworks and Arguments for Critical Literacy2. Defining Critical LiteracyAllan Luke3. The Importance of Critical LiteracyHilary Janks4. Unrest in Grosvenor Square: Preparing for Power in Elite Boarding Schools, Working-Class Public Schools, and Socialist Sunday SchoolsPatrick J. FinnSection II. Critiquing Critical Literacy in Practice 5. Thinking critically in the land of princesses and giants: The affordances and challenges of critical approaches in the early yearsBeryl Exley, Annette Woods & Karen Dooley6. Where Poems Hide: Finding Reflective, Critical Spaces inside Writing WorkshopAmy Flint & Tasha Tropp Laman7. Critical Literacy Across the Curriculum: Learning to read, question and re-write designsBarbara Comber & Helen Nixon8. Looking and Listening for Critical Literacy: Recognizing Ways Youth Perform Critical Literacy in SchoolElisabeth Johnson & Lalitha Vasudevan 9. Communities as Counter-storytelling (Con)texts: The Role of Community-Based Educational Institutions in the Development of Critical Literacy and Transformative ActionEnid Rosario-Ramos & Laura JohnsonSection III. Revisions of Critical Literacy10. Text Complexity: The Battle for Critical Literacy in the Common Core State StandardsMichael Moore, Don Zancanella & JuliAnna Ávila11. What Counts as Critical Literacy in the Japanese Context: Its Possibilities and Practical Approaches Under the Global-National CurriculumShinya Takekawa12. Standardizing, and Erasing, Critical Literacy in High-Stakes Settings Jessica Zacher Pandya 13. Inquiry into the Incidental Unfolding of Social Justice Issues: 20 Years of Seeking Out Possibilities for Critical LiteraciesVivian Maria Vasquez14. Conclusion: Affective and Global Ecologies: New Directions for Critical LiteracyCynthia LewisList of ContributorsIndex