I really appreciated our discussion on critical literacy today. After our discussion on children’s books, I began to wonder how much teacher can involve in children’s critical questioning. While I was talking with my group, I thought that it might be somewhat attempting to lead the conversation toward what I would notice from the book instead of what children would see. As Toni suggested, modeling can be beneficial for children to get familiar with critical questions. As Michelle pointed out, I agree that it really can help them internalize how to pose questions. In addition to that, maybe valuing children’s questions about issues around their life and inviting them to talk about those issues might be another way to open critical literacy in class.
I really love thinking about critical literacy. Today’s discussion really made me become interested in doing critical literacy practices with my students in Korean school. However, it is challenging for me to think about doing critical literacy practices in several ways. One of the reasons, I think, is that this class is almost considered as a foreign language class becuase students who are in my class have just started to learn Korean. Thinking of my class really made me wonder whehter critical literacy can be possible in a foreign language classroom. Hmmm … Then, how can I address critical literacy to my class??
