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Teaching Critical Literacy

Due to the ongoing technological and the resulting social changes, traditional understanding of literacy needs to be altered. Postmodernism has left us with a multiplicity of approaches to literacy, coining a new term – multiliteracies. It is proposed that postmodernism has already been overthrown by digimodernism, i.e. the overall impact of computerisation. Simultaneously, computer literacies (functional literacy, critical literacy and rhetorical literacy) need to be continuously developed. The article discusses critical literacy in more detail, emphasising its increasing importance in an educational context. Technology education is incomplete without critical literacy which refers to developing conceptions of interpretation and criticism. Evaluation of digimodernist texts enables students to learn from media, to resist media manipulation, and to use media materials in constructive ways. The implementation of critical literacy in school curricula needs to combine top-down (government regulations) and bottom-up approaches (teacher initiatives), whereby teacher training colleges play a significant role.

digimodernism; multiliteracies; teaching critical literacy; school curriculum; teacher education

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