Uchicago — English Department

JHS
Thu, 24 May 2018 16:17:19 +0000

@marlowe1 : I bet it has been a while since you have read any academic work on literature. The sentence you quote – while amply deserving your criticism – is practically a model of simplicity, concision, and intelligibility within the standards of the profession.

Here’s something yanked off the web that implicitly demonstrates the usefulness of “criticality”:

In English language education, the word ‘critical’ can be used in different ways, qualifying different phenomena. Thus, the development of ‘critical thinking’ is a goal in some ELT classrooms or teacher education programmes; there is also ‘critical pedagogy’, which seeks empowerment and social transformation; and ‘critical perspectives’ can be taken towards the enterprise of ELT itself. Here, we will try to show how these apparently different forms of criticality are linked together.