Multicultural children's literature and values education
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Title: | Multicultural children's literature and values education |
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Authors: | López-Ropero, Lourdes |
Research Group/s: | Transhistorical Anglophone Literary Studies (THALIS) |
Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Inglesa |
Keywords: | Literatura multicultural | Educación en valores | Educación para la ciudadanía | Empatía | Comprensión intercultural | Multicultural literature | Values education | Education for citizenship | Empathy | Cross-cultural understanding |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
Publisher: | Asociación Nacional de Investigación en Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (ANILIJ) |
Citation: | Anuario de Investigación en Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (AILIJ). 2009, 7(1): 83-97 |
Abstract: | Este trabajo se centra en la noción de educación en valores y la urgente necesidad que tienen los profesores y educadores de promover valores democráticos dada la creciente diversidad de las sociedades contemporáneas. Pretendo hacer hincapié en las oportunidades que ofrece la literatura multicultural para niños para trabajar temas transversales tales como la educación en diversidad, para la tolerancia y la paz. Tras explorar los temas de la educación en valores, el potencial cívico de la literatura y el desarrollo de la literatura multicultural para niños, se analizarán cuatro textos publicados en los Estados Unidos. Tres de estos textos son libros ilustrados, lomás and the Library Lady (1997) de Pat Mora, Sittis Secrets (1994) de Naomi Nye e Hiroshima No Pika (1980) de Toshi Maruki; Remember: The Journey to School Integration (2004) es un foto-ensayo de la autora Toni Morrison. | This paper brings to the forefront the notion of values education and the pressing need for teachers and educators to enforce democratic values in our This paper brings to the forefront the notion of values education and the pressing need for teachers and educators to enforce democratic values in our[Archivio: /home/kike/Descargas/ailij/2009.pdf] increasingly diverse contemporary societies. I intend to emphasize the opportunities that children's multicultural literature offers for promoting such cross-curricular topics as education for diversity, tolerance or peace. After addressing the issues of values education, the civic potential of literature and the development of multicultural literature for children, four multicultural texts published in the United States will be presented as case studies. These include three picture books, Pat Moras Tomás and the Library Lady (1997), Naomi Nye's Sittis Secrets (1994), Toshi Marukis Hiroshima No Pika (1980), and Toni Morrison's photo-essay Remember: The Journey to School Integration (2004). I will show how these texts promote positive images of minority children, cross-cultural understanding and habits of empathy. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/129743 |
ISSN: | 1578-6072 | 2660-7395 (Internet) |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Rights: | © Asociación Nacional de Investigación en Literatura Infantil y Juvenil |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | https://revistas.uvigo.es/index.php/AILIJ/article/view/819 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - THALIS - Artículos de Revistas |
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