ABSTRACT
With the world visibly present in students' lives through technology, mass and social medias, economic interdependency, and global mobility, it is more important than ever to develop curriculum that is intercultural. In Teaching Globally: Reading the World Through Literature, a community of educators show us how to use global children's literature to help students explore their own cultural identities. Edited by Kathy Short, Deanna Day, and Jean Schroder, this book explains why global curriculum is important and how you can make space for it within district and state school mandates. Teaching Globally is built around a curriculum framework developed by Short and can help teachers integrate a global focus into existing literacy and social studies curricula, evaluate global resources, guide students as they investigate cross-cultural issues, and create classroom activities with an intercultural perspective. Filled with vignettes from K-8 urban, suburban, and rural schools that describe successes and struggles, Teaching Globally aims to integrate global literature into classrooms and challenge students to understand and accept those different from themselves. The book also includes extensive lists of recommendations, websites, professional books, and an appendix of global text sets as mentioned by the authors. '
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|42 pages
The Transformation of Curriculum Through global Literature
chapter Chapter 2|18 pages
The Social Responsibility of the Reader: Becoming Open to Intercultural Perspectives
part 2|94 pages
A Personal Cultural Identities
chapter Chapter 6|18 pages
Responses of Native American Children to International Indigenous Literature
chapter Chapter 7|18 pages
From Knowing to Feeling to Action: A Collaborative Inquiry on Culture and Identity
part 3|60 pages
Cross-Cultural Studies
part 4|35 pages
Integration of Intercultural Perspectives
chapter Chapter 11|19 pages
Understanding the Past and Present Through Intercultural Perspectives on Forced Journeys
chapter Chapter 12|13 pages
Creating Intentional Space Through the Close Reading of Intercultural Perspectives
part 5|38 pages
Inquiries into global Issues
chapter Chapter 13|16 pages
Global Children's Literature in Science: The Potential of Inquiry and Social Action
part 6|44 pages
So What? Explorations of Intercultural Understanding