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When I think about critical literacy, I always think back to a definition of critical literacy that Linda Christensen gave in her article, Critical literacy: Teaching reading, writing, and outrage (1999). In the article, she writes, “Critical literacy does explore the social and historical framework. It moves beyond a description of society and into an interrogation of it,” (p. 56). For me, critical literacy is always about interrogating, deconstructing, and examining texts, so that we can uncover the power within the texts.
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Leska, S.M. (2016). Reimagining Curriculum. In: Cooper, K., Anwaruddin, S.M. (eds) Student Voice. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-408-4_10
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