Critical Literacy Project-Based Learning Unit for Social Justice
Critical Literacy: the ability to use language and read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships.
Social Justice Education: recognizing oppression in its multiple forms, and then taking action in the classroom to recognize and interrupt the cycles of oppression
Here is an example of how I integrated Critical Literacy Practices and Social Justice Education for a PBL Unit:
Critical Literacy: the ability to use language and read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships.
Social Justice Education: recognizing oppression in its multiple forms, and then taking action in the classroom to recognize and interrupt the cycles of oppression
Here is an example of how I integrated Critical Literacy Practices and Social Justice Education for a PBL Unit:
Welcome to a student-created "Social Justice Museum Exhibit" guided by my Social Justice Curriculum Model which is heavily dependent on critical literacy and critical discourse activities. After deeply exploring justice-oriented literature, vocabulary, videos, news articles, etc. through Culturally & Linguistically Responsive Teaching & Systems Thinking methods, students brought their learning to life by designing and constructing a Museum Exhibit through a School-as-Museum learning approach, based on Reggio Emilia constructivist pedagogy. The Superhero/Supervillain theme was a brilliant idea one student had. This pictorilization not only inspired wonder in the audience viewing the exhibit, but also invited the students to see themselves as Social Justice Superheroes who are fighting the unjust Supervillains of their worlds: Bullying, Discrimination, Factory Farms, Health Problems and Poverty.
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An analysis of this project was published:
Caffrey, G.E. & Rogers, R. (2018). “Social action against bullying and discrimination: Critical literacy practices through museum learning,” Berkeley Review of Education, 7(3). Find online:
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9fx1x4c4 
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Click here for a comprehensive Power Point Presentation of the entire social justice museum exhibit,
including process through product.
including process through product.