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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
Direct linkHugo, A. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2003
The notion "literacy" is changing to encompass the concept of "multiple literacies". There are various forces, especially social and cultural forces, that are used to determine the definition of literacy and in this new millennium one can merely predict which possible cultural forces will now shape the nature of literacies. In…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Cultural Context
