ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the power of creative literacies, when used as a critical tool to challenge inequality and work towards a model of social justice in and out of the classroom. Bourdieu's concepts of capital, field, habitus and symbolic power are used to provide a framework for probing and exposing how creative, critical and empathic imagination (CCEI) can be developed to shape transformative opportunities in the teaching of literacy. Bourdieu's work on education and its impact in the reproduction of social inequality provides a framework to explore literacy as a cultural capital and literacy education as a site of production and reproduction of power positions, where certain literacy practices are considered more legitimate than others. The classroom in this chapter operated to engage in the cultural capital generated by the learners and their community and mobilised them as creative literacy resources.
