On Critically Conscious Research: Approaches to Language and Literacy Research

by Arlette Ingram Willis, Mary Montavon, Catherine Hunter

This provocative new title in the NCRLL Collection is a call-to-action for new and experienced scholars to re-examine their biases and assumptions and adopt a more critically conscious stance in their work. Balancing a historical grounding with contemporary research, this book focuses on how critical theories are manifested in language and literacy research. The authors examine overlooked roots and routes to present-day critical thinking and predict how branches of theorizing may emerge, evolve, and transform research in a democratic society. Challenges new and experienced researchers to actively address social justice

176 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2008

Reviews

[Graham Oliver · Rating 3 out of 5]

I guess it depends on what you're reading it for, and at what level in your studies. I found 80-90% of the book to be a literature review, which saddened me because when the authors laid out their conglomeration of opinion it worked really well - especially able to be seen in the afterward.

As a graduate level book, a large portion of the lit review should be sources you are already familiar with, and therefore repetitive. Thus the 3 stars. However, if you needed a lit review of critical theorists, it is much more valuable than that.