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ERIC Number: EJ1435894
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Sep
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0311-6999
EISSN: EISSN-2210-5328
'I'm Not from a Country, I'm from Australia.' Costumes, Scarves, and Fruit on Their Heads: The Urgent Need for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy When Sharing Diverse Books with Children
Helen Adam; Matthew Byrne
Australian Educational Researcher, v51 n4 p1121-1140 2024
Children's books play a central role in today's classrooms. Educators can use children's literature to promote children's social and cultural understandings and critical thinking skills. This is particularly important when extending children's knowledge and understandings of themselves, their identity and those who may differ culturally, socially or historically, thus supporting diversity and inclusion. Further, when diversity is considered, valued, and supported through Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP), outcomes for children from underrepresented backgrounds improve. This paper reports on a study conducted in four early learning settings in Western Australia investigating educators' practices when sharing diverse literature with young children. This study found in the majority of book sharing in these centres the cultures, backgrounds, life experiences and funds of knowledge of children from underrepresented backgrounds were invisible. Further, educators' practices were bereft of CRP and likely to demean and confuse those from underrepresented backgrounds and increase all children's misconceptions of others.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Australia
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