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Multicultural Literature That Brings People Together, Stan Steiner, Claudia Peralta Nash, Maggie Chase
Multicultural Literature That Brings People Together, Stan Steiner, Claudia Peralta Nash, Maggie Chase
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
Over the past ten years we have been tracking a specific type of multicultural literature. We diligently look for literature for youth that reflects multiple cultures within the story line or images projected through illustrations. The books we focused on in this theme depict multiple characters reflecting a variety of ethnic backgrounds because this mosaic of characters is what we see to be more of a reflection of our changing world. The interaction of young people today across ethnic lines is more prevalent and we believe will continue to become common place as long as adults allow and encourage this …
Toward A Transformative Teaching Practice: Criticity, Pedagogy And Praxis, Arturo Rodriguez
Toward A Transformative Teaching Practice: Criticity, Pedagogy And Praxis, Arturo Rodriguez
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
One method to teach a multicultural class: a teacher walks in to a room calls the class to order, steps to the lectern and begins to deliver knowledge. Socially acquired information is disseminated; that gained over years of study and experience. Another view: I walk into a class where my students are sitting quietly at their desks pen and paper at the ready and quietly ask: shall we form a circle? The students agree and after having done so I follow up with a generative (Freire, 1970): what are your current understandings of Diversity? In following the work of Paulo …
Teaching About Peace Through Children’S Literature, Stan F. Steiner
Teaching About Peace Through Children’S Literature, Stan F. Steiner
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
Historically children's literature has always been used as a teaching tool with children, but today the choices of literature has grown and the audience expanded. Teaching moral messages was an underlying foundation for making books available for children. Early children's books were often tied to religious teachings and folklore that had implied messages of staying close to home, listening to elders, caring for others over oneself, and traditional gender roles to name a few. Many adults have identified other subliminal messages as they critically analyzed some of the literature from the past. Some messages you will find are passive women …
As Is The Sapling, So Grows The Tree: The Importance Of Early Care, Roberto E. Bahruth
As Is The Sapling, So Grows The Tree: The Importance Of Early Care, Roberto E. Bahruth
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
All education is political and the ways children are educated early in life has a strong influence on them throughout their adult experience. Examples of these influences are provided from past generations with an argument to address the speed-of-light living of the generation of the microchip world of today's modern society. Children growing up with electronics and with little tolerance for down time crave constant stimulation. They are living a fundamentally different childhood, disconnected from nature's metaphors. Reflective time, quiet time, time spent getting lost in a book are being replaced by microtexting, emails, instant messaging, and cell phone conversations …
Persistence Of Vision: Hegemony And Counterhegemony In The Everyday, Roberto E. Bahruth
Persistence Of Vision: Hegemony And Counterhegemony In The Everyday, Roberto E. Bahruth
Literacy, Language, and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations
A gathering of subjects of history, activists who are engaging in the struggle for humanization, provides the ideal circumstance for pedagogical explorations that are generative and organic. Contrary to state-sponsored schooling, where inductees are treated as objects, receptacles of what Gabbard3 refers to as "the secular gospel," participants in the International Institute of Peace Education (IIPE) 2008 held in Haifa, Israel demonstrated the power of critical pedagogical encounters to move people to act not only with clarity and determination in, but also if necessary, against the everyday. After years of cultural work in a variety of terrains of engagement, …