{"id":7630,"date":"2019-05-22T15:58:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/critical_literacy\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:58:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:57","slug":"critical_literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/critical_literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A way of teaching literacy that emphasises looking at the meanings embedded within texts and making explicit the author&#8217;s purpose in writing the text in a particular way. &nbsp;Teaching entails questioning the construction of texts and analysing the power of language to convey different things to different people. &nbsp;Students are encouraged to reflect on their own and others&#8217; attitudes and values.<\/p>\n<p>See&nbsp;Content analysis, Discourse analysis, Literacy, Personal literacies, Vernacular (or community) literacies<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A way of teaching literacy that emphasises looking at the meanings embedded within texts and making explicit the author&#8217;s purpose in writing the text in a particular way. &nbsp;Teaching entails questioning the construction of texts and analysing the power of language to convey different things to different people. &nbsp;Students are encouraged to reflect on their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/critical_literacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Critical literacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}