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Creating Critical Classrooms: Lessons Learned Jerome C. Harste Professor, Emeritus Literacy, Culture & Language Education Indiana University

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Here is a first draft of my Minnesota PP. I'd like to get the PSA to play and I'd like to have Sha Na Na playing on the Little Red Riding Slide.

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Creating Critical Classrooms:Lessons Learned

Jerome C. HarsteProfessor, Emeritus

Literacy, Culture & Language EducationIndiana University

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Critical Literacy: Front & Center

*Here is why…

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Critical Literacy: Front & Center

“Truth no longer exists, whatmatters these days….is whatstories you spin.”

Colin Lankshear

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“We have to beware ofOrwellian speech –Bush’s Clean Air Act Is a license to pollute.His Healthy Forest Initiative is a license toLog national forests.”

“Frames trump facts.”George Lakoff

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“The screen is overtaking the pageIn terms of the major vehicle ofcommunication.”

Gunter Kress

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-- James Paul Gee

“Kids are learning moreabout what it means to beliterate outside of school than in school.”

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“Curricula, despite all of our multimodal understandings, arestill way to verbocentric.”

Marjorie Siegel

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“In today’s environment if you don’thave critical literacy you are a sucker,you are going to end up in debt, youare going to end up on the streets, youare going to sign up with the first bankthat offers you a crummy mortgage, youare going to wind up with a big Visa carddebt, you are going to buy everything that is pushed your way.”

Alan Luke

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Barbara Comber’s definition of ‘Critical Thinking’

• “…the use of language in powerful ways to get things done in the world, to enhance everyday life in schools and communities, and to question practices of privilege and injustice.”

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“By analyzing visual information andteaching students to do the same, weprovide them with needed tools tointerrogate the very lifestyles they arebeing sold and to questions those billsof goods.”

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“The goal of critical literacy is to create students who are agents of text rather than victims of text.”

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“Texts have designs on you.”

Hilary Janks

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“Inscribed Goats” Watercolor collage 12” x 16” 2010

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Critical Literacy: Think Social Practices

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“Everyday texts need to be aregular part of the Englishlanguage Arts classroom,not just for adolescents, butfor children from preschool on.”

Vivian Vasquez

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“There are multiple literacies.What is important is what social practices are in place asthat determines which literacieswe value and which literacies wedon’t really value much.”

--Brian Street

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“I see curriculum as a metaphor for the lives you wish to live and the people you want to be.”

“Live on a daily basis the curriculum you are advocating.”

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Center for InquiryIndianapolis

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Mount Saint Vincent UniversityHalifax, Nova Scotia

Master of Arts, Critical LiteracyToronto, Ontario Program

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Critical Literacy: Curricular Resources

*Children’s Literature isa good place to start

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Multicultural, International, &Social Issue Books

http://mypage.iu.edu/~harste

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Critical Literacy: Making the Familiar Strange

*Enjoy, Dig Deeply, Talk Back

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Peggy I want Sha-Na-Na’sLittle Red Riding Hood to play here via aClick.

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Critical Literacy: Curricular Resources

*Making the Familiar Strange

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Remix Fairly Tales

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Pat Smith’s I Like, I Dislike Strategy

4 Columns

•I Like•I Dislike•Patterns•Problems or Puzzles

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Linda Christensen’s Target-Perpetrator-Bystander-Ally Strategy

4 Columns

*Target*Perpetrator*Bystander*Ally

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Thinking DeeplyAbout EverydayTexts*

*Who wrote this text?

•Why was this text written?

*Who is it written for?

*Whose voices are notincluded? Or what wasn’t said?

*How could it be?

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*An example of a curricularinvitation.

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Saying & Thinking Post-It Note for:a)The music teacherb)The music studentc)The parent listeningand waiting for his kid to finish up.

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“Curriculum should bewritten in pen, neverin pen.”

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Expanding What Countsas Literacy

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http://www.ted.com/talks/jr_s_ted_prize_wish_use_art_to_turn_the_world_inside_out.html

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Using Art to Change the World

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Have ABlast!!!

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Billboards for the rich,Spray cans for the poor.

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Jacob Lawrence

“The Glory of Expression”

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Because I believe teacher can’t do for childrenwhat they haven’t done for themselves:

Invitation: Using Jacob Lawrence as yourmodel, create a piece of art that makes a statement about the direction you thinkliteracy and literacy education needs to be takiing.

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A complete discussion ofCritical Literacy has toInclude:

*A Theory of Dominance*A Theory of Access*A Theory of Diversity*A Theory of Re-Design

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Gallery Walk: Making It Public

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Introductory frames of two PSAs,Created Collaboratively and Focused on Social Issues.

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“Language Study” Broadly Defined

*What do various communicationsystems afford?

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Cultural Models

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Frames

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Vectors

Colors

Ideal

Real

FocusHere& Nowand Now

New

.Ideal

Real

Gaze

Exaggeration

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Conclusion

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