Critical Literacy Processes: Young Students' Response of Meaning and Truth in Different Texts

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Twelve
  In Roundtable Session: Freire's Legacy in Classroom Practices (Table 15)

Abstract

Children encounter texts of various kinds even before school age and that makes them familiar with different texts even before they can read, write, and interpret them, themselves. The concept of literacy needs to be expanded as young student needs to interpret, reflect, critically examine, and create meaning of texts. This study focuses on young students' ability to, in ordinary teaching, critically examine and discuss the impact of texts on issues concerning people's different conditions, living conditions and circumstances with a critical literacy perspective. The results analysis is Hillary Janks theoretical concepts of domination, access, diversity, and design and is based on the definition of critical literacy: to work to increase the reader's awareness of how texts affect.

Authors

• Birgitta Jansson, Malardalens University
  Presenting Author

• Anna Ehrlin, Malardalen University
  Presenting Author

• Linda Jonsson, Malardalen University
  Presenting Author