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Jones, Shelley; Manion, Kathleen – Literacy, 2023
For children to know how to fully participate in and most effectively lead the world they will inherit, they must learn how to critically engage with it and be knowledgeable about foundational rights and instruments that support such engagement. Together, critical literacy, which encourages the examination and interrogation of the underlying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Rights, Children, Critical Literacy
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Saul, Roger – Multicultural Perspectives, 2021
"It's only okay to call a Black person an idiot"--this statement marks the launch point for a personal essay about one family's negotiation of an act of racism that occurs in an afterschool conversation among 6-year-olds. A work of educational criticism, the essay takes on the school's passive refusal to acknowledge race and racism,…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Young Children, Language Usage, Foreign Countries
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Gien, Elizabeth Claire; Nel, Norma – Participatory Educational Research, 2018
While prevailing research links language proficiency to fundamental literacy acquisition, research is, however, limited when language and literacy acquisition are simultaneous as is the case with young (4-6 years) English language learners (ELLs) in K1, K2 and Grade 1 who acquire first time literacy in an inclusive classroom and in a L2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, English Language Learners, Limited English Speaking