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ERIC Number: EJ327894
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Critical Literacy: Taking Control of Our Own Lives.
McLeod, Alex
Language Arts, v63 n1 p37-50 Jan 1986
Argues that literacy in the 1980s means the power to use language for one's own purposes as well as those of society. Explores the classroom phase of exercising this power through the critical commentary and discussion of social issues of three students in a lower-class London school. (HTH)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Arts, Language Usage, Literacy, Social Dialects, Social Problems, Socioeconomic Background, Student Attitudes, Student Needs
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Great Britain