Search results for "Critical literacy"
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Student evaluations of the credibility and argumentation of online sources
2021
This study investigated upper secondary school students’ skills in evaluating the credibility and argumentative content of a blog text and a YouTube video. Both sources concerned child vaccination, the blog text opposing and the YouTube video supporting it. Students rated each source as credible, fairly credible or non-credible, justified their ratings, and analyzed the argumentation of both sources. Their justifications were analyzed for trustworthiness and expertise and their argument analyses for identification of the main position of the source and the reasons supporting it. Students’ justification skills proved fairly weak, and they also struggled with recognizing unbalanced argumentat…
The Pedagogical Solution: Freire’s Critical Pedagogy and Social Democracy
2016
‘A critical [educational] process is driven and justified by mutuality. This ethic of mutual development’, argued Ira Shor (2009) in the context of his analysis of Freire’s dialogic pedagogy, ‘can be thought as of a Freirean addition to the Vygotskyan one’ (p. 291). As this quote suggests, the aim of this chapter is to describe the essential feature of Paulo Freire’s solution to the conundrum that Lev Vygotsky’s framework stumbled upon. While Shor’s sentence hits the target, it relies on a widespread opinion among education scholars, who tend to emphasize the ethical component of critical pedagogy in general and Freire’s project in particular (Darder, 2009; Flores-Kastaris et al., 2009). In…
How to Foster Critical Literacy in Academic Contexts: Some Insights from Action Research on Writing Research Papers
2013
This chapter attempts to identify problem areas and suggest possible remedial means to rectify critical literacy deficits of students who write research papers in Cultural and Media Studies (CMS) at the Institute of English Studies of Opole University, Poland. Despite sufficient levels of English proficiency and ever easier access to CMS sources, students report daunting problems in selecting and framing their research objectives, stating their positions, and arguing for them. They also find it hard to evaluate materials in terms of relevance and credibility. In brief, they often lack what can be described as critical literacy—a set of skills to interrogate the social, institutional and ide…
Rhetorical Criticism as an Advanced Literacy Practice: A Report on a Pilot Training
2015
This paper sets out to advance the notion of critical literacy in view of the growing shortage of critical analytic skills even among college students. Critical literacy is defined as a disposition for critical reflection and critical practice. It is employed in the academic context in the systematic interrogation of discursive practices which are sometimes ideologically motivated. Being skilled at critiquing in the advanced EFL context is derivative of a certain general level of critical literacy. It is claimed here that this can be attained through introducing students to categories and procedures of the main rhetorical traditions: neo-Aristotelian rhetoric, the New Rhetoric and Burkean d…
Design and Style of Cultural and Media Studies Textbooks for College Students
2014
This paper uses the conceptual framework of multimodal discourse analysis in order to investigate the dominant styles and designs in selected Cultural and Media Studies (CMS) university textbooks. For many EFL students who major in philology, CMS courses are obligatory and thus constitute a type of content and language integrated learning (CLIL). The data from a description and evaluation of four popular textbooks indicate that there is a discernible move away from traditional literacy towards visuality and orality in textbook design and style. This tendency is evident in the use of segmentation and listing in composition, dialogic layouts and informal registers in exposition and visual aid…
Revista electrónica de investigación y evaluación educativa
2015
El proceso de alfabetización académica presenta en el sistema universitario español numerosas deficiencias en nuestros días, lo que es especialmente preocupante en el caso de los futuros maestros de Educación Infantil y Educación Primaria, dada la influencia que este colectivo tendrá en la alfabetización de los alumnos en los primeros años de escolarización. Este estudio trata de determinar qué variables definen la alfabetización académica de los estudiantes universitarios y qué prácticas docentes y discentes pueden ayudar a explicarla. Un “Cuestionario sobre hábitos lectores y escritores” fue aplicado a una población de 513 estudiantes del Grado de Magisterio de Educación Infantil y Primar…
Students' Information Literacy Development as a Guarantee of Qualitative Studies
2015
Publication devoted to information literacy development updates. Information literacy competencies as the basis for the success of a human life takes on a special significance in higher education teaching. Success of this process is driven by university cooperation partners: teachers, librarians and administrations work. Teachers implement information literacy development methods courses, librarians responsible for information resources in institution make up their own training system, but the administration - facilitates the implementation of information literacy and financial support. Competencies based on governmental, professional or institutional defined standards, which can provide an…
Critical Literacy in the subject Norwegian: How students (13–14 years) read and evaluate multimodal commercial texts
2022
Denne artikkelen presenterer funn frå ei spørjeundersøking om kritisk lesing og vurdering som omfattar eit utval på 228 norske elevar på åttande trinn (13–14 år). Studien undersøkjer både kva oppfatningar om kritisk lesing elevane formidlar og korleis elevar vurderer og grunngir lesinga si av multimodale kommersielle tekstar. Eit hovudfunn i studien er at forståinga av kritisk lesing som kjeldekritikk er mest utbreidd blant elevane. Ein stor del av elevane har såleis ei rimeleg, men avgrensa oppfatning av kva det vil seie å nærme seg ein tekst på ein kritisk måte. Elevane forbind i mindre grad kritisk lesing med det å nærme seg teksten på ein analytisk måte. Eit anna hovudfunn er at ein del…
Reading the Web—Students' Perceptions about the Internet
2006
This study explores the perceptions of Finnish 15‐year‐olds on the advantages and disadvantages of the Internet. The data, students' written responses (N = 3112), were gathered in the context of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in the spring of 2000 as a national option. The data were analysed by close reading and using the Atlas.ti application for coding. Students regard easy access to a variety of current information as the most important advantage of the Internet. Finding new friends and chatting with old ones was also emphasised, as well as the downloading capacities of the Internet. Although problems of finding reliable and truthful information were recogn…