Critical Literacies and Young Learners: Connecting Classroom Practice to the Com

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This text shows how critical literacy is do-able with young children, even in today's context of Common Core Standards, mandates, and pressures, and honors the sophisticated and complex social theorists that young children are.

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Many pre-service and beginning early childhood teachers question if critical literacy is do-able with young children, particularly in the current top-down educational climate. Critical Literacies and Young Learners shows how it is possible, even in the context of the mandates and pressures so many teachers experience, and honors the sophisticated and complex social theorists that young children are. Featuring a mix of groundbreaking work by iconic researchers and teachers and original contributions by emerging scholars and educators in the field, the text illustrates a range of approaches to doing critical literacy with young children and, at the same time, addresses the Common Core Standards. Part I provides several orienting frameworks on critical literacy, giving specific attention to its relationship to the Common Core Standards. Part II features chapters describing critical literacy in practice, grouped in 4 thematic clusters: using texts from popular culture and everyday life; focusing on issues-oriented texts and cultural identity; functional linguistic analysis of texts; interdisciplinary that engage young learners in critical social action projects. Part III addresses the micro-political contexts of teaching critical literacy.

Author Biography

Ken Winograd is Associate Professor, College of Education, Oregon State University, USA.

Table of Contents

PrefacePart I: Overview of Critical Literacy and Common Core StandardsChapter 1: Critical Literacy, Common Core Standards and Young Children: Imagining a Synthesis of Educational Approaches Ken WinogradChapter 2: The Four Corners Not Enough: Critical Literacy, Education Reform, and the Shifting Instructional Sands of the Common Core State StandardsWayne Au and Barbara WaxmanPart II: Teachers and Young Children Doing Critical LiteracyA. Using Texts from Popular Culture and Everyday LifeChapter 3: Show Mum You Love Her: Taking a New Look at Junk MailJennifer O'BrienChapter 4: Using the Everyday to Engage in Critical Literacy with Young ChildrenVivian VasquezB. Focusing on Issues and Cultural IdentityChapter 5: Using Theatre of the Oppressed to Foster Critical LiteracyCarol Lloyd Rozansky with Caroline Thorpe SantosChapter 6: Talking with Trolls: A Creative and Critical Engagement with Students' Nature-NaivetéSimon Boxley, Helen Clarke, Sharon Witt, and Victoria Dewey Chapter 7: Out of the Box: Critical literacy in a First-Grade ClassroomChristine H. Leland and Jerome C. Harste, with Kimberly R. Huber Chapter 8: Using Read-Alouds with Critical Literacy Literature in K-3 Classrooms Wendy B. Meller, Danielle Richardson, and J. Amos HatchC. Applying Critical Functional Linguistics Chapter 9: Teaching Social Studies and Critical Linguistics to Language Learners: Complexities, Tensions, and OpportunitiesKathryn McIntosh CiechanowskiChapter 10: Critical Linguistics in the Early Years: Exploring Language Functions through Sophisticated Picture Books and Process Drama Strategies Beryl Exley and Karen Dooley D. Engaging Young Learners in Critical Social Action ProjectsChapter 11: Critical Literacy Finds a 'Place': Writing and Social Action in a Low-Income Australian Grade 2/3 ClassroomBarbara Comber and Pat Thomson, with Marg WellsChapter 12: Exploring Child Labor with Young StudentsKate LymanPart III: Understanding the Micro-Political Contexts of Teaching Critical LiteracyChapter 13: Developing Critical Consciousness: Children and Teachers Reading Wide AwakePatrick ShannonChapter 14: We Teach Who We Are: Reflections on Teaching for Social Justice with Young ChildrenDale WeissPart IV: Bringing it All TogetherChapter 15: Critical Literacy and the Common Core: Resolving Tensions and Enhancing Student EngagementKen WinogradSupplemental Resources: An Annotated Short ListAbout the AuthorsIndex

Review

"'Defying Piaget's cognitive theory position that younger learners are unable to think abstractly in the lower stages of development, the critical literacy researchers Winograd (Oregon State Univ.) assembled present actual classroom practices designed to bring critical thinking skills to curricular practice while meeting the Common Core Standards requirements ...Overall, Winograd and his associates articulate ways to teach meaningfully and effectively through the standardization of the Common Core. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals and practitioners."- D. D. Bouchard, Crown College, for CHOICE, August 2015"Finally, a book for early childhood educators that demonstrates the wide variety of approaches to living-out critical literacy with young children—that there is not 'one' right way to do it —and situates the numerous classroom examples in a larger discussion of the current socio-political educational climate, which emphasizes testing and 'basic literacy skills.'"- Candace R. Kuby, University of Missouri, USA"This volume of seminal and new work in critical literacy gives readers a view of where the field has been and contains exciting new research and voices showing us where critical literacy in early childhood is headed."-Tasha Tropp Laman, University of South Carolina, USA

Review Quote

"Finally, a book for early childhood educators that demonstrates the wide variety of approaches to living-out critical literacy with young children--that there is not 'one' right way to do it --and situates the numerous classroom examples in a larger discussion of the current socio-political educational climate, which emphasizes testing and 'basic literacy skills.'" Candace R. Kuby, University of Missouri, USA "This volume of seminal and new work in critical literacy gives readers a view of where the field has been and contains exciting new research and voices showing us where critical literacy in early childhood is headed." Tasha Tropp Laman, University of South Carolina, USA

Details ISBN0415743214 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2014 ISBN-10 0415743214 ISBN-13 9780415743211 Format Hardcover Imprint Routledge Subtitle Connecting Classroom Practice to the Common Core Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Ken Winograd DEWEY 372.60440973 Short Title CRITICAL LITERACIES & YOUNG LE Language English Media Book Affiliation Oregon State University, USA Illustrations Applying Linguistics in the Classroom Pages 240 AU Release Date 2014-09-16 NZ Release Date 2014-09-16 Publication Date 2014-09-16 UK Release Date 2014-09-16 Author Ken Winograd Alternative 9780415743228 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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