Critical literacy: a cross-curricular tool-and-result in the teaching-learning activity

Authors

  • Angela B. Cavenaghi T. Lessa PUCSP
  • Fernanda Coelho Liberali PUC-SP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/delta.v28i2.5309

Keywords:

Critical literacy, cross-curricular, tool-and-result, teaching-learning activity

Abstract

This paper discusses the importance of critical literacy as cross curricular tool-and-result in the teaching learning activity. Based on the Socio-Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (Vygotsky, 1934; Leontiev, 1977), it discusses a teacher continuous education intervention program aimed at the teaching-learning of different subject areas mediated by different genres (Bakhtin, 1953). Teachers’ tasks, which really simultaneously develop critical understanding and an engagement with area contents in a non-segmented format, are analyzed and seem to indicate a view of literacy as tool-and-result in students’ transformational actions.

Author Biographies

Angela B. Cavenaghi T. Lessa, PUCSP

Angela B. Cavenaghi T. Lessa is Head of the English Department and Professor of the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). She is also a lecturer at the Post-Graduate Program of Applied Linguistics, area in which she completed her Doctorate Degree. Her investigations are carried out in the field of Teacher Education, especially with regard to Critical Reflection, Identity and Transversality. She has published a number of papers in Brazil and abroad in which these themes are discussed. For her Postdoctorate research, completed in 2004 at IEL [Institute for Language Studies] – UNICAMP, she focused on the constitution of identities within educational contexts.

Fernanda Coelho Liberali, PUC-SP

Doutora e mestre em Lingüística Aplicada pela PUC/SP e atua como professora do Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Lingüística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem e no Departamento de Inglês dessa mesma instituição.

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Published

2014-05-12

How to Cite

Lessa, A. B. C. T., & Coelho Liberali, F. (2014). Critical literacy: a cross-curricular tool-and-result in the teaching-learning activity. DELTA: Documentação E Estudos Em Linguística Teórica E Aplicada, 28(2). https://doi.org/10.1590/delta.v28i2.5309

Issue

Vol. 28 No. 2 (2012)

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Articles