ABSTRACT
The chapters in this section of the book provide a window into how, in using the tools of literacy education, educators construct socially just learning communities. While we can see various aspects of the critical literacy framework woven throughout the chapters, we want to reflect more deeply on the dimension of “Critical Stances and Multiple Perspectives” in our discussion of this first section of the book. The educators who we hear from in this section reflect a process of developing critical stances and multiple perspectives as they take up important social issues in educational spaces. We hear how the tools of this dimension of the critical literacy framework are woven through each educator’s practice: reading widely and deeply, making local-global connections, placing information in a historical context, seeking out multiple, non-dominant perspectives, and seeking out the relationships between sources.
