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When Names And Schools Collide: Critically Analyzing Depictions Of Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Children Negotiating Their Names In Picture Books, Tina Keller, Judith K. Franzak

Faculty Educator Scholarship

Names and experiences in schools are often tied together in a child's identity formation. This is true for all children, but becomes an increasingly important topic as classrooms in the United States are becoming more diverse. In this study, we seek to explore the idea of names as identity in picture books depicting minority children. In doing so, we seek to understand the connections between the pressures to assimilate the names of diverse children and the behavior of their classroom teachers. To explore this topic, we have chosen to examine ten picture books published since 2000 that depict diverse children …