Govender, NavanSalehjee, SaimaVan der Merwe, Clinton David2025-03-042025-03-042024-06Govender, N., Salehjee, S. & Van der Merwe, C.D., 2024, ‘Doing critical disciplinary literacies in teacher education: A pedagogical framework’, African Journal of Teacher Education and Development 3(1), a41. https://doi.org/10.4102/ajoted.v3i1.41.2958-8650 (print)2958-0986 (online)10.4102/ajoted.v3i1.41http://hdl.handle.net/2263/101323DATA AVAILABITY STATEMENT: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, C.D.v.d.M., upon reasonable request.BACKGROUND: This article explores the possibilities for conceptualising and doing critical disciplinary literacies (CDL) in (teacher) education. AIM: By revisiting and adapting Luke and Freebody’s four resources model, we consider the critical questions that teachers and teacher educators could ask about knowledge, practice, and text and/or representation within different disciplines. SETTING: Our use of the word ‘critical’ in CDL is therefore underpinned by traditions of critical literacies in which power and identity are fundamental to participating in disciplinary fields. METHODS: Using two cases as illustrative examples of CDL in context, one from science education and one from geography education, we demonstrate how our CDL model reveals possibilities for doing critical literacies across the curriculum and with disciplinary content knowledge and practice. RESULTS: Each case illustrates the pedagogical utility of the CDL framework for: (1) relating the disciplines to students’ lives and (2) demystifying the processes of producing disciplinary texts. CONCLUSION: We end with a call to action for student teachers, teachers, and teacher educators to explore the pedagogical utility of our CDL model by identifying the dominant texts of their (inter/trans) disciplinary work, interrogating the privileged sign systems as well as assumptions about imagined audiences of disciplinary texts, and (re) designing text and practice by drawing on multiple sources and approaches to representing knowledge and engaging in social action. CONTRIBUTION: In this article, we build on scholarship in critical literacies, disciplinary literacies, and teacher education by adapting and applying Luke and Freebody’s four resources model to different disciplinary texts and practices, with implications for pedagogy at school and higher education contexts.en© 2024. The Authors. Open Access. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.Critical literacyDisciplinary literacyContent-area literacyScience literacyGeography literacySDG-04: Quality educationCritical disciplinary literacies (CDL)Article