Critical Theorist
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- Understand the population is receiving "bad" information from media, cooperations, and public schools.
- Citizens demanding to live in independence must confront and interrogate language and texts presented to them.
- Intervene in constructions with counter-language and counter-text.
- Critical literacy is essential to defining personal truths and changing oppressive social structures.
Foundational Understanding
"I cannot teach anyone anything. I can only make them think." Socrates
- Language is the structure of meaning, however persuasive literacy should only benefit.
- Used his critical language to educate the youth of Athens to question practices of government.
- Language's ability to uncover truth.
- The technology of writing deters the development of critical literacy.
"Thoughts without content are empty, intution without concepts are blind." Kant
- Questioning the source of knowledge.
- Understanding truth can only come when the critical process is applied.
- Self-examination and challenges principals set by authority.
- Encourages the process to advocate.
"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." Artistotle
- Literature reveals the human condition.
- Poetry expressed human truths and possibilities (in relation to history revealing the past)
- Art served as a refection of what humans want to transcend and understand in themselves.
ATTENTION TEACHERS!
Using the Third Space
"People live their lives and learn across multiple settings, and this holds true not only across the span of their lives but also across and within the institutions and communities they inhabit-even classrooms." (Gutierrez, pg. 150)
This transformative space gives the opportunity for learning to become heightened and new knowledge can be discovered.
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