Hilary Janks addresses key questions about literacy and power in this landmark text that is
both engaging and accessible. Her central argument is that competing orientations to critical …

In this innovative and engaging text, Vivian Maria Vasquez draws on her own classroom
experience to demonstrate how issues raised from everyday conversations with pre …

Building on her groundbreaking work in Writing Superheroes, Anne Dyson traces the
influence of a wide-ranging set of “textual toys” from children's lives—church and hip–hop …

At SAGE we take sustainability seriously. Most of our products are printed in the UK using
FSC papers and boards. When we print overseas we ensure sustainable papers are used …

" In this book, Paulo Freire's culture circles cross linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic
borders to work across contexts in the US (early education, pre-service and in-service …

In this article, I present the description of the learning and social action that unfolded through
critical literacy events in my first grade classroom. Resulting from teacher action research …

What do new technologies and new forms of communication mean for young children
growing up in the 21st century? How are they shaping the mindsets, identities and practices …

Taking the pulse of current efforts to do—and, in some cases, undo—critical literacy, this
volume explores and critiques its implementation in learning contexts around the globe. An …

Schools bring people together. Yet for many children there are major discontinuities
between their lives in and out of school and such differences impact on literacy teaching and …

By discussing commonly held myths, this paper attempts to clarify a number of important
issues in the area of critical literacy education. These include the distinction between critical …