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Systemic Solutions To Systemic Problems Of Injustice: Exploring Empathy And Self-Awareness In Preservice Teacher Training And The Preschool To Fourth Grade Classroom, Christina L. Mcelwee
Systemic Solutions To Systemic Problems Of Injustice: Exploring Empathy And Self-Awareness In Preservice Teacher Training And The Preschool To Fourth Grade Classroom, Christina L. Mcelwee
Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium
Social justice issues are systemic problems of inequity that must be dealt with in a systemic way if they are to be resolved; it is my belief that resolution will come through the development of young children via trained preservice teachers, equipped to teach about empathy and inequity while celebrating diversity. If children, ages preschool to fourth grade, become aware of injustices surrounding social justice conflicts, the likelihood of social change occurring increases because of children’s exposure to issues of injustice. Preservice teachers and their future students must cultivate outlooks celebrating diversity and nurturing empathy, self-awareness, critical thinking, and creative …
Representation Matters: How Representation In Children's Literature Influences Children Of Different Ethnicities, Taylor Cavalovitch
Representation Matters: How Representation In Children's Literature Influences Children Of Different Ethnicities, Taylor Cavalovitch
Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Symposium
This action research project explores how the use of representational children’s literature in an elementary classroom might shape the engagement of emergent bilingual students who are underrepresented in the local context. Representational children’s literature is literature that represents students of all backgrounds. Students use this literature as either a window, observing a different perspective, or a mirror, the reader sees himself or herself in the text. Over a period of three weeks during my literacy field experience in the PreK-4 Leading Teacher program, I focused on one participant: a student of Venezuelan heritage who lives in Pittsburgh. Data collection included …