Cross-Cultural Understanding through Children’s Literature
This vignette investigates and notes the results of introducing multicultural picturebooks to the classroom and allowing students to read and critically engage with the text on their own, rather than having the content taught to them. The methods of introducing global literature, providing supplemen...
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Worlds of Words: Center of Global Literacies and Literatures
2011-11-01
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| author | Melanie Bradley Zeinab Mohamed |
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| description | This vignette investigates and notes the results of introducing multicultural picturebooks to the classroom and allowing students to read and critically engage with the text on their own, rather than having the content taught to them. The methods of introducing global literature, providing supplemental information, and guiding the discussion based on what the students pick up from the text encourage students to gain a deeper understanding of other cultures. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-962e8bdc59b7416ab67ff9e525d2a72e2022-12-22T03:49:11ZengWorlds of Words: Center of Global Literacies and LiteraturesWOW Stories2577-05512011-11-01IV14249Cross-Cultural Understanding through Children’s LiteratureMelanie Bradley0Zeinab Mohamed1Oklahoma State UniversityWill Rogers Elementary School, Stillwater, OklahomaThis vignette investigates and notes the results of introducing multicultural picturebooks to the classroom and allowing students to read and critically engage with the text on their own, rather than having the content taught to them. The methods of introducing global literature, providing supplemental information, and guiding the discussion based on what the students pick up from the text encourage students to gain a deeper understanding of other cultures.https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/stories/storiesiv1/8/multicultural educationteachingeducationglobal children's literature |
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| title | Cross-Cultural Understanding through Children’s Literature |
| title_full | Cross-Cultural Understanding through Children’s Literature |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Cross-Cultural Understanding through Children’s Literature |
| title_short | Cross-Cultural Understanding through Children’s Literature |
| title_sort | cross cultural understanding through children s literature |
| topic | multicultural education teaching education global children's literature |
| url | https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/stories/storiesiv1/8/ |
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