From the Book - Second edition.
Introduction. Living a critical literacy curriculum
What is critical literacy?
Building a critical literacy curriculum
Creating spaces for critical literacies
Inquiries into critical literacy
An amusement park for birds: The influence of Reggio Emilia documentation
1. Creating spaces for critical literacy. Getting beyond prescriptive curricula, the mandated curricula, and core standards
Critical literacy as pleasurable work
What complexities are involved with engaging in critical literacy practice?
How our classroom was organized
How our school day was organized
Common elements of our school day
The role of parents/guardians
2. Getting started: setting the scene. Constructing a curricular audit trail
Using an audit trail as a tool for generating, constructing, and circulating meaning
Creating a rain forest play
Audit trail as a tool for constructing curriculum
Deciding on what incidents to represent on our audit trail
Visibly connecting issues on our audit trail
Critical literacy across the curriculum
The audit trail: assessment and evaluation
The audit trail and standards of learning
Alternate possibilities or constructing an audit trail
3. The French café. Setting the scene
Analyzing the French café
Learning about powerful forms of language
Offering children alternate ways of acting
Critical reflections and pedagogical questions
4. Our friend is a vegetarian. Setting the scene
We have vegetarians at our school?
Problematizing social text
Further extensions of the vegetarian issue
Critical reflections and pedagogical questions
5. Save the Beluga. Setting the scene
Baby Beluga take two: our version
Grounding our work in social intent with real-world effects
Further opportunities for analyzing the book
Analyzing the Beluga incident
Critical reflections and pedagogical questions
Resources on critically endangered species
6. We know how McDonald's thinks. Setting the scene
The McDonald's Happy Meal as text
We know how McDonald's thinks: the discussion continues
Reflecting on how McDonald's thinks
Who can have collectibles?
Reflecting on the conversation
Further analysis of the Happy Meal
Reflecting on the conversation
Final thoughts on the Happy Meal discussions in the classroom
Social action outside the classroom
Designing a toy container
Critical reflections and pedagogical suggestions
Revisiting the Happy Meal
7. A look back over the year. Organizing a junior kindergarten conference: a culminating experience for our negotiated critical literacy curriculum
Using social critique, social analysis, and social action to construct literacy
Asking questions that matter: a final reflection
What next year's junior kindergartens should know
Epilogue : Why critical literacy continues to matter today and in the future ; New lenses through which to do critical literacy: the use of technology
Appendixes : A. Resources for negotiating critical literacies ; B. Alternate possibilities for constructing an audit trail.
