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Critical Literacy as Policy and Advocacy
Author(s) -
Mora Raúl Alberto
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of adolescent and adult literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1936-2706
pISSN - 1081-3004
DOI - 10.1002/jaal.329
Subject(s) - critical literacy , critical consciousness , reflexivity , agency (philosophy) , pedagogy , literacy , ideology , critical thinking , sociology , meaning (existential) , critical discourse analysis , consciousness raising , political science , psychology , social science , law , politics , psychotherapist
This article, the first column for this issue's Policy and Advocacy department, features a discussion about a recent experience in a graduate program in Medellín, Colombia introducing students to critical literacy. Graduate students used ideas from critical literacy to engage in an in‐depth analysis of textbooks they had used in their practice. Their reflexivity showed that they raised questions about teachers' attachment to textbooks, the meaning of critical consciousness, issues of ideology in those textbooks, and a renewed sense of agency and advocacy. The article also poses challenges for critical literacy in second language education.