Critical Literacy and Popular Culture's Role in the Classroom

This essay explores the complex relationship between critical literacy and popular culture within the educational environment. It highlights the perspectives of educators regarding the inclusion of critical literacy, which emphasizes a critical viewpoint toward texts and encourages students to analyze power dynamics, inequality, and injustice. The essay also defines popular culture as the cultural products consumed by a majority of the global population, encompassing art, music, and media. It addresses the challenges educators face, such as sustainability and instability, which often lead to a reluctance to incorporate critical literacy. The author argues that critical literacy is essential for enabling young people to understand the world and its texts, and proposes that educators must manage and control the influences of both critical literacy and popular culture to improve educational outcomes in the 21st-century classroom. The essay also references the impact of these elements on student's study and suggests educators to eliminate barriers to provide high education to children. The essay concludes by emphasizing the need for educators to understand and analyze their own cultures to foster positive classroom relationships.

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Language and literacy

Language and literacy
The essay talks about the effects of popular culture and critical literacy in the classroom.
It explains that many educators do want to include critical literacy and popular culture in the
classrooms. The critical literacy is an instructional approach which advocates and addresses the
critical and serious viewpoint towards the text. The critical literacy enhances and encourages
readers and educators to analyze and evaluate the offers and text strategies. The critical literacy
is the capability to read and learn texts and messages in an active, dynamic and reflective manner
in order to better understand inequality, power, and injustice in individuals’ relationships.
Further, the popular culture is gathering the cultural products such as art, fashion, cyberculture,
music, literature, television, and radio that are used by the majority of the world population. The
scope of popular culture is worldwide (Street, 2014). The popular culture and critical literacy
play a vital role in the society. There are big challenges in critical literacy they are such as
sustainability, inequality, and instability. These challenges are faced by the educators in the
classroom. Thus, they do not prefer critical literacy in the classrooms. The critical literacy is
about the enabling youthful people to read both the world and word in relation to the identity,
power, and differences. The critical literacy is considered the pedagogical concern for the
readers. The critical literacy encourages and persuades a student to ask various kinds of
questions of power especially disparities which are existed in the social contexts such as race,
gender, socio-economic status and sexual orientation. The critical literacy does not maintain the
cooperation and coordination in the classroom so educators do not want to prefer the popular
culture and critical literacy in the classroom. The educators are not able to maintain a reciprocal
relationship due to critical literacy and popular culture in the classroom. The critical literacy is
based on the ingrained and embedded practices and culture. Thus, it is important for the student
to identify and analyze the opportunities within contexts and texts because it is a big challenge in
front of educators (Wood & Jocius, 2013).
Further, educators do not prefer the popular culture in the classrooms. Due to popular
culture, music, arts, and media are used by the people. The educators do not want to include the
popular culture in the classrooms. Through critical literacy and popular culture, educators do not
maintain the hierarchical relationship in the classroom (Sykes, Wills, Rowlands & Popple, 2013).
It affects the study of the student. Therefore, the educators should remove these barriers from the
classrooms to provide high education to children. Educators should understand the critical
literacy and popular culture and it should be controlled and improved by the educators. It will
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also help to improve the educational outcomes and results in 21st-century classrooms. The
teachers are required to understand and analyze their own culture to ensure the good relationship
within the classroom. Therefore, critical literacy and popular culture should be eliminated by the
educators to provide good quality of education. The essay is based on the critical literacy and
popular culture in the classroom. The company should manage and control on the critical literacy
and popular culture (Janks, 2014).
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References
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Adult Literacy, 57(5), 349-356.
Street, B. V. (2014). Social literacies: Critical approaches to literacy in development,
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Sykes, S., Wills, J., Rowlands, G., & Popple, K. (2013). Understanding critical health literacy: a
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Wood, S., & Jocius, R. (2013). Combating “I hate this stupid book!”: Black males and critical
literacy. The reading teacher, 66(8), 661-669.
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