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Direct linkHeffernan, Lee; Lewison, Mitzi – Language Arts, 2005
Critical literacy practices in a third-grade classroom involved working with texts that disrupted commonplace assumptions about social norms. As students read and talked about social issues such as racism, ageism, and sexism, they became "border crossers" in their school lunchroom. Without informing their teacher, they worked on a social action…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Social Action, Discourse Analysis, Social Responsibility
