Sentences with phrase «of multicultural literature»

Education for Democracy Institute Peace and Democracy Discussions and Peace and Democracy eBooks and Digital Games Pilot Project Peace & Democracy eBooks and Digital Games provide digital versions of multicultural literature, along with digital games, activities, and curriculum, that can help children and adults discuss how to prevent violence and improve our democratic society.

CHAUDHRI: How do you see children's books about Muslim experiences contributing to the larger realm of multicultural literature?

Education for Democracy Institute Peace and Democracy Discussions and Peace and Democracy eBooks and Digital Games Pilot Project Peace & Democracy eBooks and Digital Games provide digital versions of multicultural literature, along with digital games, activities, and curriculum, that can help children and adults discuss how to prevent violence and improve our democratic society.

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All of Christian literature and doctrine has been refracted through the lens of multicultural politics.

Bena Hefflin developed guidelines for selecting quality multicultural children's literature, and Eliza Braden and Sanjuana Rodriguez provide questions for teachers to examine texts with Latino families and stories of immigration that reflect real experiences.

The Heartwood Institute, which has developed an ethics curriculum for elementary school students, has compiled a list of multicultural children's literature (for students in primary and intermediate grades) that explore ethical themes, such as courage, hope, respect, and justice.

She concludes that if students are to achieve at higher levels, educators must emphasize ownership; push for biliteracy rather than using the home language only as a vehicle for English literacy; have students read multicultural literature; and teach skills explicitly, within the context of authentic literacy activities.

Our partnership with First Book helps to expand the publication and distribution of multicultural children's literature.

Infusion of technology to integrate social studies and multicultural literature.

One recommended approach to increase comprehension and engagement is the use of culturally relevant texts and multicultural literature (Au, 1998, 1993; Barrera, 1992; Harris, 1994).

I'm also a retired correspondence teacher for the Institute of Children's Literature and a book reviewer for «The Five Owls,» «Multicultural Review,» and «Riverbank Review.»

In promoting multicultural literature and the idea that it was not just possible but necessary to find connections between cultures and between different kinds of people, Hazel vigorously argued against not only geographical borders but also those between genres and between audiences.

Hazel Rochman is the author of Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World (1993), which has become a multicultural - literature bible foMulticultural World (1993), which has become a multicultural - literature bible fomulticultural - literature bible for librarians.

«Children have a right to books that reflect their own images and books that open less familiar worlds to them... for those children who had historically been ignored — or worse, ridiculed — in children's books, seeing themselves portrayed visually and textually as realistically human was essential to letting them know that they are valued in the social context in which they are growing up... At the same time, the children whose images were reflected in most American children's literature were being deprived of books as windows into the realities of the multicultural world in which they are living, and were in danger of developing a false sense of their own importance in the world.»

RSJ convention with support from Diverse Writers and Readers International, inspires more diversity in literature by encouraging aspiring authors to write more multicultural characters to include on the book shelves of readers.

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They are presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee of the ALA's Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT) to encourage the artistic expression of the African - American experience via literature and the graphic arts; to promote an understanding and appreciation of the black culture and experience and to commemorate the life and legacy of Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination in supporting the work of her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., for peace and world brotherhood.

2Leaf Press is an imprint of the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc., a NY - based nonprofit organization that promotes multicultural literature and literacy...

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The idea for a multicultural complex, bringing together in one place different forms of art and literature, developed, in part, from the ideas of France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs, André Malraux, a western proponent of the decentralisation of art and culture by impulse of the political power.