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Hilary Jankswriting: a critical literacy approach
Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives IOE July 2009
Overview•journal writing •critical approach •design•the redesign cycle•interdependent model CL Wits University 2009
Journal writing•1980s•context •now
Journal writing
Journal writing 1980s
Journal writing 1980s
Journal writing 1980s
Journal writing 1980s
Journal writing 1980s
Journal writing 1980s
Journal writing 1980s
Journal writing 1980s
Journal writing 1980s
Journal writing 1980s
Journal writing 1980s
Journal writing•Context
•where•when
Journal writing
Critical approach•Freire•Clarke and Ivanic•School based•Kamler
Critical approach
If learning to read and write is to constitute an act of knowing, the learners must assume from the beginning the role of creative subjects. It is not a matter of memorizing and repeating given syllables and phrases …
Insofar as language is impossible without thought, and language and thought are impossible without the world to which they refer, the human word is more than mere vocabulary – it is word-and-action. The cognitive dimensions of the literacy process must include the relationships of men [sic] with their world (Freire, 1972a, 29).
Critical approachCritical approach
Frames are mental structures that shape the way we see the world. As a result, they shape the goals we seek, the plans we make, the way we act and what counts as good or bad outcomes of our actions. In politics our frames shape our social policies. To change our frames is to change all of this this. Reframing is social change. (Lakoff, 2004: xv).
Critical approach
Design•multimodality•text production•reproduction•redesign
Design
Design
Introduction – text redesign
Design – the redesign cycle
Interdependence•power•access•diversity•design/redesign
An interdependent model of critical literacy
An interdependent model of critical literacy
Power without access
Power without diversity
Power without design/redesign
Access without power
Access without diversity
Access without design/redesign
Diversity without power
Diversity without access
Diversity without design/redesign
Design/redesign without power
Design/redesign without access
Design/redesign without diversity
An interdependent model of critical literacy
Power without design/redesignPositioning, agency
Access without design/redesignAccess but can not redesign the dominant texts or discourses
Diversity without design/redesignWithout design the resources that diversity offers are can not be realised in texts
Design/redesign without powerFeminists, discourses speak us
Design/redesign without accessWhose designs get through the gates?What remains on the margins?
Design/redesign without diversityCannot draw on diversity as a productive resource for creativity
ConclusionBolinger (1980) described language as a loaded weapon. As writers, we need to recognize the power of words to be used in the interests of good or evil. Ultimately, the choice is an ethical one which will determine how we ‘name’ our world and, in so doing, ourselves.
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