Research in the Teaching of English Feb 1999

Critical Literacy and Institutional Language

Ellen Cushman University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

Uses activist ethnographic field work to explore institutional language skills used by inner-city residents as they negotiated social services institutions. Shows residents’ critical awareness and political acumen as they complied with and resisted the structuring ideology of institutional agents. Raises questions about the methods of key critical pedagogues and the appropriateness of their assumption of false consciousness among disenfranchised people.

Journal
Research in the Teaching of English
Published
1999-02-01
DOI
10.58680/rte19991670
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  1. Smagorinsky (2025)
    Writing and Reading Qualitative Characters
    Written Communication
  2. Cushman (2011)
    New Media Scholarship and Teaching
    Pedagogy
  3. Alexander (2007)
    Reciprocal Literacy Sponsorship in Service-Learning Settings
    Literacy in Composition Studies

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