Critical literacy
- concerns critical reading
- is concerned with rhetorical analysis of power relationships.
- engages students in metacognition and self reflection about the Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose of knowledge claims.
Related Concepts: Critical Thinking; Problem Solving; Critical Theory
Educated readers engage in critical literacy practices: they question information They question it’s currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose (Blakeslee 2004):
| Currency | Has the writer clarified the currency of the information? |
| Relevance | Is the information relevant? |
| Authority | What research methods were employed? How credible are the author(s) and publisher? Was the article/composition peer reviewed? |
| Accuracy | How accurate is the information? |
| Purpose | What is the writer’s purpose? |