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Rethinking Childhood Ser.: Immigrants in Children's Literature by Ruth Lowery (2000, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLang A&G International Academic Publishers, Peter
ISBN-100820444839
ISBN-139780820444833
eBay Product ID (ePID)1760580
Product Key Features
Number of PagesXii, 156 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameImmigrants in Children's Literature
SubjectAnthologies (Multiple Authors), Emigration & Immigration, Children's & Young Adult Literature, General, Short Stories, Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Publication Year2000
FeaturesNew Edition
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Juvenile Fiction, Fiction, Social Science, Education
AuthorRuth Lowery
SeriesRethinking Childhood Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight8.5 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN99-014231
ReviewsWhat is wonderful about this book is that it can help teachers read more critically themselves and learn how to interpret stories with an eye to how people of different races, genders, and incomes are presented. That lesson can be applied to all children's books... It is not enough to share good immigrant stories with children; we need to be sure that the issue of representation is addressed as children read those fascinating stories. (Linda Leonard Lamme, University of Florida) In 'Immigrants in Children's Literature', Ruth McKoy Lowery writes passionately, in a scholarly manner, about the plights of immigrant children as represented in the children's books that she has examined. Her work will serve as a sextant for those who follow in her footsteps in the search for a better understanding of the needs, hopes, and dreams of immigrant children. This book will also serve as a rich source of inspiration for teachers everywhere who are sensitive to the needs of immigrant children and who are seeking ways to help young children to better understand the differences and similarities that immigrant children bring to the American classroom. (Stephen Voss, Florida Atlantic University), «What is wonderful about this book is that it can help teachers read more critically themselves and learn how to interpret stories with an eye to how people of different races, genders, and incomes are presented. That lesson can be applied to all children_s books... It is not enough to share good immigrant stories with children; we need to be sure that the issue of representation is addressed as children read those fascinating stories.» (Linda Leonard Lamme, University of Florida) «In 'Immigrants in Children_s Literature', Ruth McKoy Lowery writes passionately, in a scholarly manner, about the plights of immigrant children as represented in the children_s books that she has examined. Her work will serve as a sextant for those who follow in her footsteps in the search for a better understanding of the needs, hopes, and dreams of immigrant children. This book will also serve as a rich source of inspiration for teachers everywhere who are sensitive to the needs of immigrant children and who are seeking ways to help young children to better understand the differences and similarities that immigrant children bring to the American classroom.» (Stephen Voss, Florida Atlantic University), «What is wonderful about this book is that it can help teachers read more critically themselves and learn how to interpret stories with an eye to how people of different races, genders, and incomes are presented. That lesson can be applied to all children's books... It is not enough to share good immigrant stories with children; we need to be sure that the issue of representation is addressed as children read those fascinating stories.» (Linda Leonard Lamme, University of Florida) «In 'Immigrants in Children's Literature', Ruth McKoy Lowery writes passionately, in a scholarly manner, about the plights of immigrant children as represented in the children's books that she has examined. Her work will serve as a sextant for those who follow in her footsteps in the search for a better understanding of the needs, hopes, and dreams of immigrant children. This book will also serve as a rich source of inspiration for teachers everywhere who are sensitive to the needs of immigrant children and who are seeking ways to help young children to better understand the differences and similarities that immigrant children bring to the American classroom.» (Stephen Voss, Florida Atlantic University)
Dewey Edition21
Series Volume Number13
Number of Volumes0 vols.
Dewey Decimal810.9/9282
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
SynopsisResearchers in a range of fields have acknowledged that childhood is a construct emerging from modernist perspectives that have not always benefited those who are younger. The purposes of the Rethinking Childhood series are to provide critical locations for scholarship that challenges the universalization of childhood and introduces new, reconceptualized, and critical spaces from which opportunities and possibilities are generated for those who are younger. Diverse histories and cultures are considered of major importance, as well as issues of critical social justice., Issues of immigration remain fresh in the minds of many Americans whose lives are impacted in some form or other. Schooling is a public space where this impact is most often inevitable. Literature is one medium in which children are given a representational view of immigrants' lived experiences. This representation may or may not be positive. This book analyzes how forms of representations are presented in seventeen children's literature novels, looking particularly at how issues of race and class affect, or influence, these representations.
LC Classification NumberPS374.I48L68 2000
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