Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children's Literature: Mirrors, Windows, and Doors
Maria José Botelho, "Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children's Literature: Mirrors, Windows, and Doors "
English | ISBN: 0805837116 | 2009 | 376 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0805837116 | 2009 | 376 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
"Children’s literature is a contested terrain, as is multicultural education. Taken together, they pose a formidable challenge to both classroom teachers and academics…. Rather than deny the inherent conflicts and tensions in the field, in Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children’s Literature: Mirrors, Windows, and Doors, Maria José Botelho and Masha Kabakow Rudman confront, deconstruct, and reconstruct these terrains by proposing a reframing of the field…. Surely all of us – children, teachers, and academics – can benefit from this more expansive understanding of what it means to read books." Sonia Nieto, From the Foreword
Critical multicultural analysis provides a philosophical shift for teaching literature, constructing curriculum, and taking up issues of diversity and social justice. It problematizes children’s literature, offers a way of reading power, explores the complex web of sociopolitical relations, and deconstructs taken-for-granted assumptions about language, meaning, reading, and literature: it is literary study as sociopolitical change.
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