Multicultural and Global Children's Literature as Agents of Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 90-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Primary Method ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Diversity Issues ◽  
Approach To Teaching

Literature is the primary method used in elementary schools across the disciplines to teach children. Forms of media technology (computers and iPads) used in elementary schools at present are primarily supplementary. This chapter focuses on literature as an agent for change within two education approaches, multicultural and global education. The purposes of multicultural and global education and why literature is used as an approach to teaching are explained. Multicultural teacher education is discussed, but global teacher education is not, since not enough research could be found by this author at this time. Discussions of the uses, authenticity, and diversity issues of literature are included.

Bridges to Global Citizenship: Ecologically Sustainable Futures Utilising Children's Literature in Teacher Education

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Bradbery
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Global Citizens ◽  
Sustainable Future ◽  
Value Diversity ◽  
Sustainable Futures ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable

AbstractDeveloping an understanding of the importance of a sustainable future is vital in helping children to become ‘global citizens’. Global citizens are those willing to take responsibility for their own actions, respect and value diversity and see themselves as contributors to a more peaceful and sustainable world. Children's literature — picture and story books in particular — can be used as a powerful tool to help even the youngest citizens become aware of the need to assume responsibility for creating and enjoying a sustainable future through global citizenship. Children's literature can be utilised to help children examine and change personal lifestyles to secure a sustainable future; to identify, investigate, evaluate and undertake appropriate action to maintain, protect and enhance local and global environments; to challenge preconceived ideas, accept change and acknowledge uncertainty and to work cooperatively and in partnerships with others. This article explores and examines ways in which some examples of Australasian children's literature, specifically Storm Boy (Thiele, 1963), Lester and Clyde (Reece, 1991), The Waterhole (Base, 2001), Window (Baker, 1991) and Belonging (Baker, 2004), have been used in a literacy focused preservice teacher education course to assist preservice teachers entering their internship school placements to develop children's understandings of an ecologically sustainable future. It provides further insight into methods for embedding teaching for a sustainable future into pre-service teacher education.

Deploying Black Joy

2021 ◽  
pp. 360-377
Author(s):  
Lisa Brown Buchanan ◽  
Cara Faulkner Ward ◽  
Amy Senta
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Elementary Classroom ◽  
Practice Approach

This chapter describes a theory into practice approach for using children's literature to explore and affirm Black joy, Blackness, and Black identity in the elementary classroom. The work of Dr. Bettina Love on abolitionist teaching provides the theoretical grounding for this chapter. The authors describe a synthesis of representation in children's literature and framework for abolitionist teaching, a description of three lessons focused on teaching Black joy, and a call for expanding this work in teacher education.

Children's literature: an aid in mathematics instruction

1969 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 451-455
Author(s):  
Lucille B. Strain
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Major Task ◽  
Meaningful Experiences ◽  
Children's Interests

Helping children develop dear, correct concepts in mathematics is a major task for teachers in elementary schools. Arousing and sustaining children's interests and providing varied meaningful experiences are two aspects of the task necessitating the use of numerous resources. The gargantuan array of prose and poetry, fiction and nonfiction, categorized as children's literature can be a valuable resource to aid in meetmg the task.

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