Critical Literacy and Institutional Language

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ID13683036
AuthorsEllen Cushman (0000-0002-9701-9116, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume33
Issue3
Pages245-274
Publication date1999-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueResearch in the Teaching of English (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-527X • E-ISSN: 1943-2348
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.58680/rte19991670
OpenAlexW105604297
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited13

Uses activist ethnographic field work to explore institutional language skills used by inner-city residents as they negotiated social services institutions. Shows residents’ critical awareness and political acumen as they complied with and resisted the structuring ideology of institutional agents. Raises questions about the methods of key critical pedagogues and the appropriateness of their assumption of false consciousness among disenfranchised people

Consciousness · Critical consciousness · Critical ethnography · Critical literacy · Critical theory · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Ideology · Literacy · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Structuring · Work (physics · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology

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