Essay On Critical Literacy

There are four kinds of literacy in our daily life, functionalist literacy, a basic literacy to help people achieve the basic knowledge and need; cultural literacy, a literacy usually use grace language, stories to tell next generation about the experiences; literacy-for-personal-growth, a literacy about nurturing the personal ability of learning language; critical literacy, a literacy help people to find themselves and show the way how people think (Knoblauch 451-457). Critical literacy is a literacy relate on the personal experience and it is easy to be affected by others, and it is consisted of different factors instead of one. There are many factors could affect the way people think, which means critical literacy is related on many elements. …show more content…
With the developing of economy, many school start doing the advertising on campus, because of that, students are not only learn knowledge from school, but also become a part of customers for the markets. Education is becoming commercialization and privatization by selling the brands to students, which would make students feel that education should be related to industry. On the other hand, students are not just know knowledge from school, and they get the information from people around and media. Students are easily affected by the environments around, improve civic education could increase literacy completely. Because of different class in the society, everyone has different grow up environment and education background, which makes them have different goals of their life and individual thought of things. People are thinking differently by different class they are involved in. In addition, education style is related to the way people think, it could help people either find out the opposite of something or the main knowledge from it. The way of people’s thinking is related on their education, background and environments, which reflects critical