Reading Culture

Reference

Promoting Students' Reading Culture and Critical Thinking.
Generates meaning through an Inter-disciplinary Curriculum and through Integrated Project Work.


A. Reading Culture + Critical Thinking = Critical Reading

Anticipated Change:

a. Traditional approach (The text as truths) to Post Modern approach in reading (The
text with truths embedded in the unique context, intertwined with the author and
originator)

b. Extensive and generic reading: Posture of facts/truth acquisition and memory
deposition, to focused and purposeful reading: Questioning, Constructing,
Interpreting, Processing, Scaffolding, Deconstructing, and forging Epistemological
outcomes. (These schemas are actively practiced in our school's Integrated
Humanities Curriculum Project Work)

B. Critical Reading and the Thinking Discourse

Critical reading in education would be postmodern, focused and purposeful in generating students' learning outcomes. As in focused project work reading.

" Critical reading begins with a critical question that encourages the better communication of a reality that has to be presented and embodied in a statement of facts or a discursive construction of the situation."