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Critical Literacy Write EDU 407

Why did we decide college and career ready is more important than civic and community ready? What does this mean?

  • I believe that as a society we are more worried about people being "successful" in the real world rather than them becoming a good citizen within their own community. The common belief may be that if someone is ready for college and ready for a career then they will be forced to be good citizens in the community. However, we can see that this is not always the case for everyone and people often focus strictly on the education aspect of getting good grades rather than learning from experiences. In order to create a better community, we need to change our goal, Beck says  "Critical literacy has as its goal the development of responsible citizens, able to confront social inequities in their many forms and take action against injustices." (Beck) I think it is important to create people who will positively affect the community rather than focusing on grades so much.   As a society, we look down on people who do not get careers or go to school more than people who are not active in their community. I think this needs to shift. 

 Why is argumentation stressed in education? What does this mean? 

    • Argumentation creates passion which leads to deeper thoughts and ideas. If you can get someone to be passionate about something but not emotional then they will want to dive into the topic more and really figure out everything about it. 
      • In the reading A Place for critical literacy by Ann Beck she says "Dialogue is important because learning is primarily a social act that is tied to its real-life context and relies on language as a media (Rogers 2002)" (Beck) 
    • Argumentation is necessary for life because you will always be having conversations with people who do not fully agree with you, being able to control yourself with these communications becomes expected as you get older. 


Should teachers remain neutral? 
  • Depending on the topic but I also believe that people realize teachers have opinions based on experiences just like everyone else. 

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