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Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children's Literature : Mirrors, Windows, and Doors - Maria Jose Botelho

Critical Multicultural Analysis of Children's Literature

Mirrors, Windows, and Doors

By: Maria Jose Botelho, Masha Kabakow Rudman

Hardcover | 26 March 2009 | Edition Number 1

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"Childrena (TM)s literature is a contested terrain, as is multicultural education. Taken together, they pose a formidable challenge to both classroom teachers and academicsa ]. Rather than deny the inherent conflicts and tensions in the field, in Critical Multicultural Analysis of Childrena (TM)s Literature: Mirrors, Windows, and Doors, Maria JosA(c) Botelho and Masha Kabakow Rudman confront, deconstruct, and reconstruct these terrains by proposing a reframing of the fielda ]. Surely all of us a " children, teachers, and academics a " can benefit from this more expansive understanding of what it means to read books." Sonia Nieto, From the Foreword

Critical multicultural analysis provides a philosophical shift for teaching literature, constructing curriculum, and taking up issues of diversity and social justice. It problematizes childrena (TM)s literature, offers a way of reading power, explores the complex web of sociopolitical relations, and deconstructs taken-for-granted assumptions about language, meaning, reading, and literature: it is literary study as sociopolitical change.

Bringing a critical lens to the study of multiculturalism in childrena (TM)s literature, this book prepares teachers, teacher educators, and researchers of childrena (TM)s literature to analyze the ideological dimensions of reading and studying literature. Each chapter includes recommendations for classroom application, classroom research, and further reading. Helpful end-of-book appendixes include a list of childrena (TM)s book awards, lists of publishers, diagrams of the power continuum and the theoretical framework of critical multicultural analysis, and lists of selected childrena (TM)s literature journals and online resources.

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"This book is particularly useful for teachers, teacher educators, and researchers interested in designing curriculum for reading children's literature with a sociopolitical context in mind!.By thoughtfully integrating both classroom practice and theory across the book, Botelho and Rudman equip readers with valuable reading strategies to "guide children in reading dominant discourses of race, class, and gender and identify how ideology is rendered in the materials they read" (p. 94)."--Language Arts

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