In my own thinking critical literacy and critical thinking are two sides of the same concept, but attempting to reconcile these terms as they appear in the wider literature is not so straightforward. This is a pretty good effort (11 page PDF). Critical literacy (on this reading) "raises the issue of the unequal power structures within education" and asserts "texts are biased and informed by the ideological perspective of the producer." Critical thinking (about which there is a lot of debate in the field) is a "generic set of skills and abilities – such as those used in informal logic, traditionally associated with philosophical reasoning." The useful part of this paper is the discussion which concludes, ultimately, "it is only the generic skills involved in critical thinking that allow for any true 'metacritique' of all other competing 'discourses'." Image: tolerance.org, How Culturally Responsive Lessons Teach Critical Thinking.
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