Essays about: "critical source criticism"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words critical source criticism.
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1. Facing the Fake News in the Swedish EFL Classroom : A content analysis of exercises addressing fake news at upper secondary level
University essay from Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikationAbstract : Fake news is nowadays part of our everyday lives, especially for those who are exposed to social media. As 8 out of 10 Swedish teenagers mainly read news on social media, this study was conducted to investigate to what extent students are taught to deal with fake news. READ MORE
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2. Breaking the Bell Jar: Teaching Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Feminist Literary Criticism to Upper Secondary School Students
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : This paper studies how Sylva Plath’s The Bell Jar can be read from a feminist perspective and, in turn, what some possible benefits and potential risks of teaching the novel and feminist literary criticism to upper secondary school students of English in Sweden are. This paper also discusses how the novel can be a means to discuss the fundamental values of upper secondary school, in terms of equality, but also the topic of mental health. READ MORE
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3. Rethinking Source Criticism -Towards the development of an analytical model for evaluation of sources in times of massinformation and fake news
University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : This thesis discusses source criticism from a critical perspective which encompasses its challenges, demands and possibilities for teaching practice. The questions guiding the core of this research are the following:1) What differentiates people’s activities in the process of evaluating sources? 2) What characterizes an effective practice in critical evaluation of sources? 3) Which criteria, factors and strategies might be important to consider in order to have a successful source critical methodology that promotes the improvement of critical thinking when analysing information and news?The studied materials include data from one survey and 54 semi-structured interviews. READ MORE
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4. Critical Literacy through Critical Documentaries - How Bowling for Columbine and Michael Moore hates America can be used to teach argumentative writing and source criticism to students in upper-secondary school in Sweden.
University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : This essay seeks to illustrate how critical literacy and source criticism can be incorporated in argumentative thinking and reasoning in an assignment based on authentic materials constructed for students studying English 6 in Swedish upper-secondary school. The assignment seeks to, grounded in critical literacy theory, increase the students’ source criticism and improve their argumentative thinking and reasoning. READ MORE
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5. The Potential of Argument Mapping as a Tool for Teaching Critical Thinking in Secondary School
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskapAbstract : With our modern deluge of information through social media, news and blogs, the importance of giving our children a better understanding of source criticism and critical thinking has become increasingly clear. In the field of critical thinking, the use of argument mapping software, a visual way of structuring arguments, has been shown to increase the understanding of arguments, and college students using the method score as much as three times higher on critical thinking tests. READ MORE
