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Why Feminist Critical Literacy Matters: The Reorganisation of Capitalist Economies and the Significance of Socially Engaged Literature for Young Adults

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Burcar L.

Gender Studies

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2012

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vol. 11

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issue 1

205-217

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The latest capitalist restructuring has resulted in new conditions of employment, seriously affecting possibilities for people’s self-realization. Women have been hurt the most and face an increasing feminisation of poverty. This paper foregrounds the importance of literary socialisation in preparing young people to accept or reject neoliberal gendered scripts.

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Library and school partnership on the move - a study of second language learners’ early literacy development

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Damber U.

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

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2015

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vol. 3

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issue 2

14-21

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A study of eight multicultural suburban Swedish classes forms the backdrop of an analysis of the role of the library in students’ development towards becoming skilled readers. In-depth interviews with five teachers and one librarian involved in the classes provide empirical data, even though background information was collected with mixed research methods. The librarian’s narrative is the primary source of data in this article. The children′s educational trajectory from the preschool class to third grade is in focus. The present meta-analysis highlights the role of the library and the librarian, with respect to linkages made to the children’s overall literacy development. As a tool for analysis critical literacy theory was used, thus extending the influence of the librarian′s participation beyond the actual literacy practice, to the surrounding society. The results indicate that the library played a vital role in several ways, for teachers and students as well as for the parents. The collaboration between the librarian and the teachers started with the librarian having book talks with the children. However, she became a participant in the team’s planning and follow-up activities, linking the worlds in and out of school.

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Scrutinising intertextuality in humour: moving beyond cultural literacy and towards critical literacy

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Tsakona V.

The European Journal of Humour Research

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2020

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vol. 8

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issue 3

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Humourists often resort to previous texts to create their jokes, thus establishing intertextual links between them. Consequently, the processing of such jokes presupposes specific cultural literacy skills which enable speakers to recognise the allusions and interpret them in the new humorous contexts. It has, however, been suggested that speakers’ emphasis on cultural literacy skills for processing allusions and humour may discourage or even impede them from adopting a critical perspective on humorous texts and the allusions included therein. The present study explores this interplay among intertextuality, cultural literacy, critical literacy, and humour in order to underscore the need for critical approaches to humorous texts and intertextuality. It critically analyses political jokes to demonstrate how the intertextual references contributing to their humorous effect create three sets of opposing groups: (a) those who create/tell the jokes vs. those who are targeted by them; (b) the ‘culturally literate’ who employ and understand the intertextual references vs. the ‘culturally illiterate’ who cannot and/or do not do that; and (c) those who agree vs. those who disagree with the ideological presuppositions of the humorous allusions and texts at hand. Based on incongruity and superiority theories of humour, the proposed analysis intends to argue, and pave the way, for more critical perspectives on humorous genres, whether outside or inside educational settings. Such perspectives could sensitise speakers to the fact that humour and intertextuality divide them into opposing groups such as the above-mentioned ones.

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In transit/ion: Sudanese students’ resettlement, pedagogy and material conditions

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Harris A.

Journal of Pedagogy

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2013

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vol. 4

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issue 1

79-97

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For Asante our “battle is intense, the struggle we wage for status power is serious and we cannot communicate as equals when our economic position is that of servants” (2008, p. 49), words that resonated with the author throughout her research with Sudanese Australian young women about their educational experiences, as captured in co-created short films. While the work moved between social science and arts-based research the author questioned the basis of her relationship with the co-participants, and the possibility of fluid status positions within educational contexts. This paper interrogates the im/possibility within neoliberal secondary school contexts for activist educational research (Giroux, 2005) to be the kind of ‘interchange’ of which Asante speaks, a source of creative understanding for researchers and co-participants, if it cannot address co-participants’ (and teacher/student) unequal material conditions. In the case presented in this article, materially-influenced communication challenges reflect current curricular and pedagogical tensions, especially for refugee-background students. Where racial, cultural and socio-economic marginalities intersect, pedagogical and curricular possibilities are sometimes foreclosed before students even enter ‘neoliberal’ classrooms.

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Zadania polonistów w szkole pomyślanej na nowo. Jak uczyć uczenia się

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Białek K.

Polonistyka. Innowacje

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2020

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issue 12

141-158

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The situation of the pandemic and the March lockdown allows us to look at education in Poland as an element of a complex system of influences and heterotopias, in line with Foucault’s concept. Realizing the importance of a well-planned educational policy in the context of social needs will allow teachers to set goals more accurately and effectively. The pandemic has exacerbated the social inequalities existing in Poland which have an impact on the effectiveness of education. Education focused on empowerment and, implemented by strengthening cognitive autonomy in the lessons of critical reading, may be an answer from the field of the Polish studies. The text also proposes lesson activities based on the procedural reading method.

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Sytuacja pandemii i marcowego lockdownu pozwala spojrzeć na edukację w Polsce jako na element złożonego systemu wpływów i heterotopię, zgodnie z koncepcją Foucaulta. Uświadomienie sobie ważności dobrze zaplanowanej polityki edukacyjnej w kontekście potrzeb społecznych pozwoli celniej i skutecznej postawić cele działalności nauczycieli. Pandemia wzmocniła istniejące w Polsce nierówności społeczne, które mają wpływ na efektywność kształcenia. Odpowiedzią na gruncie polonistyki szkolnej może być kształcenie nastawione na upodmiotowienie, realizowane przez wzmacnianie autonomii poznawczej na lekcjach krytycznego czytania. W tekście zaproponowano także propozycję działań lekcyjnych opartych na metodzie czytania proceduralnego.

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Krytyczna Świadomość Językowa i Pozytywna Analiza Dyskursu. Edukacyjne implikacje krytycznie zorientowanych teorii dyskursu

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Starego K.

Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji

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2017

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vol. 13

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issue 2(37)

56-67

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Despite the growing popularity of discourse theory and critical analysis of interrelations between education and its social, political and cultural contexts, neither the “discursive” nor “linguistic” turn in social sciences are usually thought of as possible foundations for pedagogical practice. The aim of this paper is to review the possible educational applications of two critical discourse theories: Critical Language Awareness and Positive Discourse Analysis. Both of those perspectives aim to go beyond the purely research oriented modes of analysis, towards constructive and positive projects of critical language education. Thus, they may provide us with a foundation for a critically oriented pedagogy of language.

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