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Peer reviewedDudley-Marling, Curt; Fine, Esther – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 1997
Suggests that a goal of schooling should be to educate students for democracy as a means of challenging a status quo in which a relatively small number of people control a disproportionate share of society's social and economic resources. Examines the potential of critical, pro-justice, whole-language instruction to help create the conditions for…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Critical Thinking, Democratic Values, Elementary Education
