From Critical Thinking To Critical Literacy

The RNCT organises a workshop called From Critical Thinking To Critical Literacy. The objectives are to:

• explore the differences between critical thinking and critical literacy;

• examine the role of critical thinking in the English Language curriculum;

• investigate how critical thinking skills can be developed in the English Language classroom;

• reflect on the relevance of critical literacy in English language learning in the 21st century; and

• consider how critical literacy skills can be developed through reading and writing instruction

The interactive model of the reading process adapted from the English Language KLA Curriculum Guide (P1-P6) is the starting point in the workshop.

The workshop contrasts Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy (Anderson and Krathwohl, 2001) as a theoretical framework for critical thinking with the Four Resources Model of literacy (Freebody and Luke, 1990) as a framework for critical literacy.

The following slide illustrates how critical literacy works as readers “read the word and the world” (Paolo Freire).