Teaching Critical Literacy ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

Critical literacy is the ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships. The purpose of this course is to help current and future teachers incorporate critical literacy regarding race, class, and gender as they plan literacy activities for children. Through texts and articles, students will explore issues of race, how it shapes our society, and how we handle those issues in the classroom. Students will explore how their choices can unconsciously marginalize certain groups of people as they integrate their knowledge of teaching, learning, and instructional design, and explore how the curricular choices they make can work both for and against them. Prerequisites: EDST 3045 Learning Theories (or equivalent), EDST 3015 Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment (or equivalent), at least 1 course in written expression.