Teaching for Social Justice in the Primary Classroom Through Literature and Language

[摘要] Children learn about the world around them by listening, making observations and interacting with others.Picture books can provide both teachers and students a tool with which readers can examine and evaluate the ways in which they see the world and relate to others. The utilization of children’s picture books with themes of social justice in the primary classroom can be an excellent tool to help teachers create space for their students to grapple with social justice issuesinanage-appropriatemanner.Thegoalofthisstudywastoanalyzeaward-winning children’s picture books that have been identified as having themes of social justice in order to ascertainthemessagespresentineachbookandconsider whetherthesemessagescaninspire social activism within the classroom and school community.

[发布机构] the University of Pittsburgh