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Critical and Inclusive Practices in Literacy

Critical and Inclusive Practices in Literacy
June 2016
Tammera Moore, Robin G. Jackson, Tiffany S. Kyser, Seena M. Skelton, and Kathleen King Thorius

This edition of the Equity Dispatch explores how critical and inclusive practices in literacy are more than being mindful of what materials are used in the classroom; how they are how inequitable power structures are interrogated, deconstructed, and confronted in and through everyday literary engagement. Further, it explores how this information is operationalized to engender agency in students and promote social change. Grounded in elements of both critical literacy practices and Universal Design for Learning (UDL), employing critical and inclusive practices in literacy provide an avenue that ensures equitable access to the curriculum for all students regardless of and responsive to students’ differences.

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