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This course provides a multicultural framework in which preservice teachers,
classroom teachers, and teacher-librarians will read and respond to children's
literature in preparation for sharing books with students in classrooms and
libraries. We will read widely, from picture books to poetry to novels written
for students in grades K-8, and build our understanding of diversity through
the characters, settings, plots, and themes presented. We will study the authors,
illustrators, and poets who create literature for children and adolescents and
use reference resources to support our study. This course is primarily a survey
of children's literature, rather than a curriculum and methods course.
Goals:
The overarching goal of this course is to nurture students' ability to derive personal meaning from the children's literature they read. In the context of this class, students will become aware of the cultural lenses through which all people, including children, view the world and process their experiences. Like the students in their (future) classrooms and libraries, the participants in this course will come to appreciate both the unique and universal themes in literature and in lives and will come to understand the contributions made by individuals and groups to both our pluralistic United States culture and our global human culture. In addition, we will use a Critical Literacy Framework (Ada) that reaches beyond comprehension and personal meaning to include a deeper look at the social and political issues raised in the literature and possible ways to take action on these issues. In pursuing these goals, we will practice the Department of Language, Reading and Culture's Statement of Principles on Multicultural Education.
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