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Peer reviewedSweeney, Maria – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1997
Illustrates the possibilities of critical literacy by discussing a project a class of fourth-grade students undertook to write and produce a play about the conditions of apartheid, the history of resistance, and the upcoming South African elections. Concludes that students felt empowered as social activists and believed they had a mandate and the…
Descriptors: Activism, Apartheid, Class Activities, Critical Thinking
