Critical Literacy by Vivian Vasquez

1. social justice

1.1. justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society.

1.2. fights to dismantle unequal power relations

2. culture

2.1. communities (inside and outside the classroom)

2.2. cultural knowledge

2.3. beliefs

2.4. arts

2.5. laws/customs

3. social issues

3.1. intersectionality

3.1.1. age

3.1.2. sexual orientation

3.1.3. disability

3.1.4. gender

3.1.5. class

3.1.6. race/ethnicity

4. text design and production

4.1. opportunities for transformation

4.2. should have real life applications to the students

4.3. creation and construction of multimodal texts

5. pedagogy of reconstruction

5.1. "design and redesign" texts and multimodal texts to dismantle any inequities

5.2. looking at an issue/topic in different ways

5.3. suggest changes for improvement

5.3.1. develop an ability to think/act differently

6. framework for literacy teaching and learning

6.1. creates space for literacy work

6.2. curriculum contributes to a critically informed social order

6.3. should be looked on as a lens throughout the day, NOT JUST IN ONE LESSON!

7. multimodal texts

7.1. language

7.1.1. student's linguistic repertoires are often excluded from classrooms

7.2. spoken language

7.3. gestural

7.4. audio

7.5. visual

7.6. spatial

8. perspective

8.1. texts are socially constructed

8.2. texts are also never neutral

8.3. texts work to position readers in certain ways

8.3.1. Need to question the perspective of texts!