This provocative new title in the NCRLL Collection is a call to action for new and experienced scholars to re-examine their biases and assumptions and adopt a more critically conscious stance in their work. Balancing a historical grounding with contemporary research, this book focuses on how critical theories are manifested in language and literacy research. The authors examine overlooked roots and routes to present-day critical thinking and predict how branches of theorizing may emerge, evolve, and transform research in a democratic society.
This volume situates critical theorizing in a global context, provides a framework for understanding shifts in critical theorizing, features innovative, critical analysis of current language and literacy research, and challenges new and experienced researchers to actively address social justice concerns.

This provocative new title in the NCRLL Collection is a call to action for new and experienced scholars to re-examine their biases and assumptions and adopt a more critically conscious stance in their work. Balancing a historical grounding with contemporary research, this book focuses on how critical theories are manifested in language and literacy research. The authors examine overlooked roots and routes to present-day critical thinking and predict how branches of theorizing may emerge, evolve, and transform research in a democratic society.
This volume situates critical theorizing in a global context, provides a framework for understanding shifts in critical theorizing, features innovative, critical analysis of current language and literacy research, and challenges new and experienced researchers to actively address social justice concerns.