Teaching Globally: Reading the World through Literature / Edition 1

by Kathy Short, Deanna Day, Jean Schroeder

Overview

With the world visibly present in students' lives through technology, mass and social medias, economic interdependency, and global mobility, it is more important than ever to develop curriculum that is intercultural. In Teaching Globally: Reading the World Through Literature, a community of educators show us how to use global children's literature to help students explore their own cultural identities. Edited by Kathy Short, Deanna Day, and Jean Schroder, this book explains why global curriculum is important and how you can make space for it within district and state school mandates. Teaching Globally is built around a curriculum framework developed by Short and can help teachers integrate a global focus into existing literacy and social studies curricula, evaluate global resources, guide students as they investigate cross-cultural issues, and create classroom activities with an intercultural perspective. Filled with vignettes from K-8 urban, suburban, and rural schools that describe successes and struggles, Teaching Globally aims to integrate global literature into classrooms and challenge students to understand and accept those different from themselves. The book also includes extensive lists of recommendations, websites, professional books, and an appendix of global text sets as mentioned by the authors. '

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781571107923
Publisher:	Stenhouse Publishers
Publication date:	08/08/2016
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	5 - 13 Years

About the Author

Kathy Short is a professor at the University of Arizona with a focus on global children’s and adolescent literature, literature circles, and intercultural understanding. She has written extensively on literature and served on book award committees. She is director of Worlds of Words and past president of the National Council of Teachers of English.

Deanna Day weaves her passions—art, children’s literature, and technology—into the literacy courses she teaches at Washington State University. She has served on the Notable Books for Global Society and the Notable Children’s Books for Language Arts award committees. She also reviews children’s literature for Language Arts and The Dragon Lode.

Jean Schroeder taught and coached in elementary schools in Tucson Unified School District for more than forty years. She has served on and chaired the Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts award committee. Jean is a founding board member and staff mentor/coach of the inquiry-based IDEA School in Tucson, Arizona.
 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Contributors ix

Part 1 The Transformation of Curriculum Through Global Literature 1

Chapter 1 A Curriculum That Is Intercultural Kathy G. Short 3

Chapter 2 The Social Responsibility of the Reader: Becoming Open to Intercultural Perspectives Holly Johnson 25

Part 2 Personal Cultural Identities 43

Chapter 3 Young Children's Explorations of Their Cultural Identities Ray Martens Prisca Martens Michelle Hassay Doyle Jenna Loomis Laura Fuhrman Elizabeth Soper Robbie Stout Christie Furnari 45

Chapter 4 Connecting and Extending Children's Identities Through Inquiry Sandy Kaser 67

Chapter 5 Explorations of Identity with Latina Mothers Julia López-Robertson 83

Chapter 6 Responses of Native American Children to International Indigenous Literature Angeline P. Hoffman 101

Chapter 7 From Knowing to Feeling to Action: A Collaborative Inquiry on Culture and Identity Wen-Yun Lin 119

Part 3 Cross-Cultural Studies 137

Chapter 8 Sliding Glass Doors That Open South Korea for American Children Yoo Kyung Sung Genvy O'Herron 139

Chapter 9 Investigating Nigeria in a Cross-Cultural Inquiry Deanna Day 161

Chapter 10 Encouraging Cultural Awareness Through an Exploration of Muslim Cultures Seemi Aziz 179

Part 4 Integration of Intercultural Perspectives 197

Chapter 11 Understanding the Past and Present Through Intercultural Perspectives on Forced Journeys Whitney Young Janelle Mathis 199

Chapter 12 Creating Intentional Space Through the Close Reading of Intercultural Perspectives Jeanne Gilliam Fain 219

Part 5 Inquiries into Global Issues 233

Chapter 13 Global Children's Literature in Science: The Potential of Inquiry and Social Action Jennifer Hart Davis Tracy Smiles 235

Chapter 14 Children Taking Action on Global Issues Kathy G. Short Lisa Thomas 251

Part 6 So What? Explorations of Intercultural Understanding 271

Chapter 15 The Importance of Global Literature Experiences for Young Children Prisca Martens Ray Martens Michelle Hassay Doyle Jenna Loomis Laitra Fuhrman Elizabeth Soper Robbie Stout Christie Furnari 273

Chapter 16 Developing Intercultural Understanding Through Global Children's Literature Kathy G. Short Jaquetta Alexander Amy Edwards Jennifer Griffith Lisa Thomas 295

Afterword Moving Forward 315

Appendix A Award Lists and Resources for Locating Global Literature 319

Appendix B Global Resources for Teachers and Children 323

Appendix C Cultural Authenticity as Author and Reader Responsibility in Children's and Young Adult Literature 327

Appendix D Dialogue Strategies 333

Index 339

Editorial Reviews

Teaching Globally: Reading the World Through Literature considers why global curriculum is important and shows how to include this curriculum within the wider framework of state teaching requirements; but it's not a general discussion. Author Kathy G. Short developed a framework for such an plan, and Teaching Globally provides the strategies and integration techniques educators need to make this goal happen. 
Chapters pair vignettes from K-8 urban and rural schools with discussions of how to encourage students as they examine cross-cultural issues. They provide activities that support this venture, offer in-depth and specific checklists of websites and professional books, and consider different perspectives on providing cross-cultural information in diverse classroom settings. 
Packed with ideas for engagement, Teaching Globally is a reading guide that covers the nuts and bolts of applied cross-cultural teaching and should be a basic acquisition to any educator's library. 
Donovan’s Bookshelf
 


Kathy G. Short, Deanna Day and Jean Schroeder edit Teaching Globally: Reading the World Through Literature (9781571107923, $37.33) will reach teachers of grades K-8 with a discussion of how a global curriculum operates and why it's important for students to know not only geographical facts about other cultures, but their perspectives and social environment. The tips on how to incorporate such a curriculum in an existing structure comes from an author who has developed and applied her own framework, and shows teachers how to blend an expanded global focus into existing literacy and social studies programs. From concrete examples of approaches that helped open specific countries to students to tables and charts that offer data supporting case histories and examples, Teaching Globally offers a powerful key to fostering student understanding.
The Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review
Education Shelf
November 2016
 

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