Promoting Critical Literacy with Social Justice Minded Gifted StudentsStudents often blindly accept the messages in digital and print media. Developing critical literacy allows gifted students, often sensitive to issues of social justice, to examine picture books, novels, and digital media with a critical eye to combat social injustice from positions of knowledge rather than intuition. Gain an understanding of how critical literacy can be used as a tool to examine concepts of race, gender, power, and their positioning within media.
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