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Elementary Students' Critical Examination of Characters in Children's Literature Depicting Social Justice

Description: Despite the ruling of Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka, segregation in schools is still quite visible with suburban schools educating a student body of more than 70% White and urban schools comprised of mostly Black, Hispanic, and Asian students. Ideally, a school should dispel social and structural inequities through curriculum and quality resources, but fallibly, schools continue to be the vehicles to maintaining the status quo. Students who develop critical awareness and cultivat… more
Date: August 2016
Creator: Paiva, Deanne
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Understanding the Relationship between Critical Literacy, Cultural Literacy, and Religious Literacy for Second-Generation Immigrants

Description: This study explores information seeking behavior of second-generation Muslim immigrants utilizing factors such as critical, cultural, and religious literacy skills. The study examined the second-generation immigrants' ability to balance their parents' and grandparents' native culture and traditions with the culture and traditions of their country. The interview questions were designed using the cognitive authority theory and the figured worlds theory that provides an explanation for the mentali… more
Date: August 2022
Creator: Khader, Malak M
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JAC Audio Interview: Homi Bhabha

Description: JAC interview of Homi Bhabha discussing the politics of difference in relation to writing, philosophy, and rhetoric.
Date: 1998
Duration: 2 hours 27 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Olson, Gary A.; Worsham, Lynn & Bhabha, Homi K., 1949-
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Shifting Their Thinking: Using Visual Images to Encourage Critical Perspectives in Young Learners

Description: The purpose of this qualitative inquiry is to explore critical visual literacy in a first grade classroom at a private school. This case study design focuses on students learning how to take a critical stance by focusing on the visual images, children's picture books, and visual arts masterpieces. The research question guiding this study is: How does a visual literacy approach using inferential and critical questioning support first graders' development of critical literacy? Four social issue… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Pendergrass, Lynne M.
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An Examination of the Multicultural Representation in Children's Books from Approved Literature Lists in North Texas Public Schools: A Critical Content Analysis

Description: Current events and social movements aimed at bringing awareness to oppressed groups have reminded us that the United States has still not achieved justice and equality for all. Social and political tensions have become inescapable in our increasingly connected world. Therefore, students need to learn about diverse ways of knowing and being in a pluralistic society. Since publishing and education companies compete for business, the amount of digital and print resources available to teachers can … more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Edge, Andrea Felice
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