- Title
- Teaching with a values stance for global citizenship: integrating children's literature
- Creator
- Bradbery, Deborah; Brown, Joanna
- Relation
- Contesting and Constructing International Perspectives in Global Education p. 125-132
- Relation
- https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/other-books/contesting-and-constructing-international-perspectives-in-global-education/
- Publisher
- Sense Publishers
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Children's literature as a selection and compilation of symbols, words, diagrams and pictures is a message mechanism that is today multi modal in its delivery. Tschida, Ryan and Ticknor (2014) assert that children's literature is 'one of the primary conduits for sending messages to students' (p. 28). This message delivery system is globally accepted as it is familiar, has the potential to educate, to entertain, to stimulate and provoke thought; activities all of which have the power to transform children's thinking and actions for the good (Helterbran, 2009). Literature 'reflect[s] in one way or another ideology and the values of the society in which they are written' (Regev, 1992, p. 33). It is also an 'expedient vehicle through which to contest cultural systems and present marginalised views within a majority form' (Miller, 2014, p. 137). The author and illustrator's deliberate selection of symbols, words, diagrams and pictures assembled into the multiple genres of children's literature, represents a particular values stance. In the examples represented in this article it is a stance associated with global education and global citizenship skills and dispositions. This values stance portrays a cultural language, tradition and identity of a particular group of people, places or things all presented from the author's chosen perspective. It delivers a particular message.
- Subject
- teaching; children's literature; message delivery
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1330223
- Identifier
- uon:26337
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789462099876
- Language
- eng
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