Building a Culture of Peace through Critical Literacy with the Net Generation

Authors

Dumrong Adunyarittigun

Publication Date

2017-07-01

Abstract

Conflicts and violence either inside or outside the classroom can affect the quality of learning within the classroom. Critical literacy is proposed as a strategic instructional practice which aims at teaching a nation's citizens to be literate and raising their critical and social consciousness (Freire, 2007). This paper suggests how teachers, as intellectual labor (Smyth, 2011), can implement a critical literacy framework to build a culture of peace in a reading class where students hold different 'taken-for-granted' ideologies of being 'us' and 'them'. It also proposes how Net Generation students in our EFL classrooms can make a significant contribution to the transformation of conflicts and violence stemming from divisions, hierarchy of differences and inequalities of the society into peace.

DOI

10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.54.1.9

First Page

235

Last Page

263

Recommended Citation

Adunyarittigun, Dumrong (2017) "Building a Culture of Peace through Critical Literacy with the Net Generation," PASAA: Vol. 54: Iss. 1, Article 9.
DOI: 10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.54.1.9
Available at: https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/pasaa/vol54/iss1/9