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“It’S Just Too Sad!”: Teacher Candidates’ Emotional Resistance To Picture Books, Aimee Ellis
“It’S Just Too Sad!”: Teacher Candidates’ Emotional Resistance To Picture Books, Aimee Ellis
Education: School of Education Faculty Publications and Other Works
The use of critical literacy with children’s books that focus on social issues and disrupt the status quo can be a powerful way to create spaces for conversations with students about social justice and empowerment. Teacher candidates in a semester long children’s literature course were asked to respond to a range of children’s texts that dealt with many social issues and disrupted the commonplace. Despite an explicit emphasis on critical literacy and social justice, the candidates were very resistant to using many of the texts in their own future classrooms. They had strong emotional reactions that prevented them from consideration …
Critical Literacy: Going Beyond The Demands Of Common Core, Aimee Ellis, Teddi L. Eberly
Critical Literacy: Going Beyond The Demands Of Common Core, Aimee Ellis, Teddi L. Eberly
Education: School of Education Faculty Publications and Other Works
The article focuses on critical literacy. Critical literacy is based on the critical theory in education. It recognizes the value of employing literacy as an instrument for people to become empowered by questioning texts and using literacy for social change. Students engaged in critical literacy develop higher levels of analysis.