Activist Literacy and Jurgen Habermas: Identifying and Evaluating Validity Claims

Authors

  • Cheu-jey Lee Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v51i1.52994

Keywords:

activist literacy, literacy education, text analysis, Jurgen Habermas, theory of communicative action

Abstract

This paper examines activist literacy through the lens of Jurgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action. It proposes that Habermas’s criteria used to evaluate validity claims in communicative action can be appropriated to supplement what is lacking in activist literacy. An analysis of both a written text and an oral text is presented to show how validity claims are identified and evaluated in relation to activist literacy. This paper ends with a discussion of the implications of Habermas’s theory of communicative action for activist literacy.

Published

2018-06-01

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