Students’ critical consciousness through critical literacy awareness
To think critically is undeniably one of the major elements of “first class human capital” in a knowledge economy. It is most regrettable that Malaysian students, even at the tertiary level, tend to be uncritical due to socialisation processes in the educational and sociocultural environment. Res...
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| author | Koo, Yew Lie Wong, Fook Fei Kemboja Ismail, |
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| description | To think critically is undeniably one of the major elements of “first class human capital”
in a knowledge economy. It is most regrettable that Malaysian students, even at the
tertiary level, tend to be uncritical due to socialisation processes in the educational and
sociocultural environment. Responding to this identified need to raise the critical
consciousness of students, this paper examines how a Higher Education teacher
challenged her postgraduate students to be critical learners through the use of CLA
(Critical literacy awareness) strategies in her Language and Literacy course. The paper
suggests that the use of CLA strategies has increased student engagement and
strengthened student voices. This paper concludes by proposing that CLA should be
included in pedagogical practices in Higher Education given that active participation in
knowledge economies is the vision of the Malaysian Higher Education Action Plan
(MoHE 2007a, b). |
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| spelling | ukm.eprints-49402016-12-14T06:37:22Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4940/ Students’ critical consciousness through critical literacy awareness Koo, Yew Lie Wong, Fook Fei Kemboja Ismail, To think critically is undeniably one of the major elements of “first class human capital” in a knowledge economy. It is most regrettable that Malaysian students, even at the tertiary level, tend to be uncritical due to socialisation processes in the educational and sociocultural environment. Responding to this identified need to raise the critical consciousness of students, this paper examines how a Higher Education teacher challenged her postgraduate students to be critical learners through the use of CLA (Critical literacy awareness) strategies in her Language and Literacy course. The paper suggests that the use of CLA strategies has increased student engagement and strengthened student voices. This paper concludes by proposing that CLA should be included in pedagogical practices in Higher Education given that active participation in knowledge economies is the vision of the Malaysian Higher Education Action Plan (MoHE 2007a, b). Penerbit UKM 2012-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4940/1/pp%2520727_743.pdf Koo, Yew Lie and Wong, Fook Fei and Kemboja Ismail, (2012) Students’ critical consciousness through critical literacy awareness. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 12 (2 (spe). pp. 727-743. ISSN 1675-8021 http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/~ppbl/Gema/gemahome.html |
| spellingShingle | Koo, Yew Lie Wong, Fook Fei Kemboja Ismail, Students’ critical consciousness through critical literacy awareness |
| title | Students’ critical consciousness through critical literacy awareness |
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| title_short | Students’ critical consciousness through critical literacy awareness |
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| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4940/1/pp%2520727_743.pdf |
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