Hilary Janks
Biographic Data
| ID | 759339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilary Janks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilary |
| FAMILY NAME | Janks |
| SIGNATURE | JANKS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9992-9623 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Science of Adolescent Literacy
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
In Dimmed Memory of Otto and Hayes
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
Critical Literacy in Action
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
Critical Literacy as a Way of Being and Doing
This article focuses on critical literacy as a way of being and doing around the globe. Orientations to critical literacy, models for instruction, key aspects, and new directions are shared.
Is My Adolescent/Adult Struggling Reader Dyslexic
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
The Apple and the Acorn
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
Critical Literacy and the Importance of Reading With and Against a Text
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
Reading With and Against Curriculum
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
Language Comprehension Development au Naturel
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
Earning or Learning, or Not
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
The decolonization of higher education in South Africa
This article pays tribute to Allan Luke's work as a pedagogical gift. His ability to bring sociological theories of power, identity and the body to bear on conceptualizing critical literacy is a gift. His research with indigenous populations, and his writing on inclusive curriculum, genres of power and double consciousness resonate in South Africa where students are fighting to decolonise higher education. Luke's work is a important because it en…
Texts, Identities, and Ethics
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
Working Critically and Creatively With Fake News
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
How Practitioners Can Inform Policy
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
Critical Literacy's Ongoing Importance for Education
Critical literacy in teaching and research 1
This article explains Janks’ (2010) interdependent framework for critical literacy education, how it was developed and how it can be applied. The explanation focuses on each part of the framework: power, identity/diversity, access and design/redesign and it provides an argument for their interdependence. The framework is then applied to three illustrative case studies all of which relate to critical literacy education. The first relates to curric…
Critical Literacy
Critical literacy is a sociocultural orientation to literacy that takes seriously the relationship between meaning making and power.
Critical reading in language education
Critical reading in language education, by Catherine Wallace, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, viii + 217 pp., £20.99/US$38.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4039-9339-7 Wallace's study
Literacy and Power
Hilary Janks addresses key questions about literacy and power in this landmark text that is both engaging and accessible. Her central argument is that competing orientations to critical literacy education − domination (power), access, diversity, design − foreground one over the other, but are crucially interdependent and need to work together to create possibilities for redesign and social action that serve a social justice agenda. She examines t…
Deconstruction and reconstruction
This article uses critical discourse analysis to show that a series of advertisements by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees are premised on a discourse of sameness that constructs difference negatively. The article moves from deconstructing these advertisements to possibilities for reconstruction that show difference as a positive and productive resource
Domination, Access, Diversity and Design
Critical literacy education, based on a sociocultural theory of language, is particularly concerned with teaching learners to understand and manage the relationship between language and power. However, different realisations of critical literacy operate with different conceptions of this relationship by foregrounding one or other of domination, access, diversity or design. This paper argues that these different orientations in critical literacy e…
Critical Language Awareness Journals and Student Identities
This article discusses the use of student journals as a means of assessing the intellectual journey taken by students through a postgraduate course in Critical Language Awareness. It shows how students construct their multiple identities in their journals and how these identities are transformed or conserved as they enter a new discourse community. The journals also raise difficult questions for the teaching and learning of Critical Language Awar…
Critical Discourse Analysis as a Research Tool
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) stems from a critical theory of language which sees the use of language as a form of social practice. All social practice are tied to specific historical contexts and are the means by which existing social relations are reproduced or contested and different interests are served. It is the questions pertaining to interests- How is the text positioned or positioning? Whose interests are served by this positioning? …
Language, Myth and Disempowerment
Critical linguistics and the teaching of language
The more smoothly ideology functions the more natural and inevitable it seems. Where groups in society have achieved a dominant position their meanings are likely to be heard more frequently and to have greater power. Their meanings become more established, fixed and naturalized than those of subordinated groups. Linguistic analysis can provide tools to deconstruct the language of any existing practices and it tends to be described as ‘critical’ …
Critical Discourse Analysis as a Research Tool
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) stems from a critical theory of language which sees the use of language as a form of social practice. All social practice are tied to specific historical contexts and are the means by which existing social relations are reproduced or contested and different interests are served. It is the questions pertaining to interests- How is the text positioned or positioning? Whose interests are served by this positioning? …
Critical literacy in teaching and research 1
This article explains Janks’ (2010) interdependent framework for critical literacy education, how it was developed and how it can be applied. The explanation focuses on each part of the framework: power, identity/diversity, access and design/redesign and it provides an argument for their interdependence. The framework is then applied to three illustrative case studies all of which relate to critical literacy education. The first relates to curric…
The decolonization of higher education in South Africa
This article pays tribute to Allan Luke's work as a pedagogical gift. His ability to bring sociological theories of power, identity and the body to bear on conceptualizing critical literacy is a gift. His research with indigenous populations, and his writing on inclusive curriculum, genres of power and double consciousness resonate in South Africa where students are fighting to decolonise higher education. Luke's work is a important because it en…
Deconstruction and reconstruction
This article uses critical discourse analysis to show that a series of advertisements by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees are premised on a discourse of sameness that constructs difference negatively. The article moves from deconstructing these advertisements to possibilities for reconstruction that show difference as a positive and productive resource
Reaching for the Cosmos
Reaching for the Cosmos
Critical linguistics and the teaching of language
The more smoothly ideology functions the more natural and inevitable it seems. Where groups in society have achieved a dominant position their meanings are likely to be heard more frequently and to have greater power. Their meanings become more established, fixed and naturalized than those of subordinated groups. Linguistic analysis can provide tools to deconstruct the language of any existing practices and it tends to be described as ‘critical’ …
Language, Myth and Disempowerment
Critical Discourse Analysis as a Research Tool
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) stems from a critical theory of language which sees the use of language as a form of social practice. All social practice are tied to specific historical contexts and are the means by which existing social relations are reproduced or contested and different interests are served. It is the questions pertaining to interests- How is the text positioned or positioning? Whose interests are served by this positioning? …
Critical Language Awareness Journals and Student Identities
This article discusses the use of student journals as a means of assessing the intellectual journey taken by students through a postgraduate course in Critical Language Awareness. It shows how students construct their multiple identities in their journals and how these identities are transformed or conserved as they enter a new discourse community. The journals also raise difficult questions for the teaching and learning of Critical Language Awar…
Domination, Access, Diversity and Design
Critical literacy education, based on a sociocultural theory of language, is particularly concerned with teaching learners to understand and manage the relationship between language and power. However, different realisations of critical literacy operate with different conceptions of this relationship by foregrounding one or other of domination, access, diversity or design. This paper argues that these different orientations in critical literacy e…
Deconstruction and reconstruction
This article uses critical discourse analysis to show that a series of advertisements by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees are premised on a discourse of sameness that constructs difference negatively. The article moves from deconstructing these advertisements to possibilities for reconstruction that show difference as a positive and productive resource
Literacy and Power
Hilary Janks addresses key questions about literacy and power in this landmark text that is both engaging and accessible. Her central argument is that competing orientations to critical literacy education − domination (power), access, diversity, design − foreground one over the other, but are crucially interdependent and need to work together to create possibilities for redesign and social action that serve a social justice agenda. She examines t…
Critical reading in language education
Critical reading in language education, by Catherine Wallace, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, viii + 217 pp., £20.99/US$38.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4039-9339-7 Wallace's study
Critical Literacy
Critical literacy is a sociocultural orientation to literacy that takes seriously the relationship between meaning making and power.
Critical literacy in teaching and research 1
This article explains Janks’ (2010) interdependent framework for critical literacy education, how it was developed and how it can be applied. The explanation focuses on each part of the framework: power, identity/diversity, access and design/redesign and it provides an argument for their interdependence. The framework is then applied to three illustrative case studies all of which relate to critical literacy education. The first relates to curric…
Critical Literacy's Ongoing Importance for Education
Texts, Identities, and Ethics
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
Working Critically and Creatively With Fake News
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
How Practitioners Can Inform Policy
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
Critical Literacy as a Way of Being and Doing
This article focuses on critical literacy as a way of being and doing around the globe. Orientations to critical literacy, models for instruction, key aspects, and new directions are shared.
Is My Adolescent/Adult Struggling Reader Dyslexic
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
The Apple and the Acorn
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
Critical Literacy and the Importance of Reading With and Against a Text
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
Reading With and Against Curriculum
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
Language Comprehension Development au Naturel
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
Earning or Learning, or Not
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
The decolonization of higher education in South Africa
This article pays tribute to Allan Luke's work as a pedagogical gift. His ability to bring sociological theories of power, identity and the body to bear on conceptualizing critical literacy is a gift. His research with indigenous populations, and his writing on inclusive curriculum, genres of power and double consciousness resonate in South Africa where students are fighting to decolonise higher education. Luke's work is a important because it en…
The Science of Adolescent Literacy
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
In Dimmed Memory of Otto and Hayes
This department explores critical perspectives on issues at the intersection of policy and practice in order to generate fresh questions about enduring dilemmas, new challenges, and debates
Sociology (22 works) · Pedagogy (20 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Mathematics education (14 works) · Literacy (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Critical literacy (8 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Critical thinking (7 works)