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Hilary Janks writing: a critical literacy approach hilary.janks@wits.ac.za. Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives IOE July 2009. Overview journal writing critical approach design the redesign cycle interdependent model CL. Wits University 2009. Journal writing 1980s context
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Hilary Jankswriting: a critical literacy approach hilary.janks@wits.ac.za Writing Development: Multiple Perspectives IOE July 2009
Overview • journal writing • critical approach • design • the redesign cycle • interdependent model CL Wits University 2009
Journal writing • 1980s • context • now Journal writing
Journal writing • Context • where • when Journal writing
Critical approach • Freire • Clarke and Ivanic • School based • Kamler Critical approach
If learning to read and write is to constitute an act of knowing, the learners must assume from the beginning the role of creative subjects. It is not a matter of memorizing and repeating given syllables and phrases … Insofar as language is impossible without thought, and language and thought are impossible without the world to which they refer, the human word is more than mere vocabulary – it is word-and-action. The cognitive dimensions of the literacy process must include the relationships of men [sic] with their world (Freire, 1972a, 29). Critical approach Critical approach
Frames are mental structures that shape the way we see the world. As a result, they shape the goals we seek, the plans we make, the way we act and what counts as good or bad outcomes of our actions. In politics our frames shape our social policies. To change our frames is to change all of this this. Reframing is social change. (Lakoff, 2004: xv). Critical approach
Design • multimodality • text production • reproduction • redesign Design
Interdependence • power • access • diversity • design/redesign An interdependent model of critical literacy
An interdependent model of critical literacy
An interdependent model of critical literacy
Conclusion Bolinger (1980) described language as a loaded weapon. As writers, we need to recognize the power of words to be used in the interests of good or evil. Ultimately, the choice is an ethical one which will determine how we ‘name’ our world and, in so doing, ourselves. The end