The Potential of Multicultural Literature

Changing Understanding of Self and Others

Bibliographic Data

ID12764918
AuthorsJudith Y Singer (corresponding author), Sally A Smith
Year2003
Volume5
Issue2
Pages17-23
Publication date2003-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMulticultural Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1532-7892 • E-ISSN: 1521-0960
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1207/s15327892mcp0502_4
OpenAlexW2059128487
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited12

This article is part of the ongoing conversation about how to provide support and appreciation for diversity in teacher education programs and, by extension, elementary school classrooms. The authors propose that reading and discussing multicultural young adult and children's literature in reflective social contexts has the potential to help teacher education students develop a deeper understanding of themselves and of different others. The participants in our study are teacher-education students from 2 universities, 1 mainly Black and 1 primarily White. In the discussion which follows, we look at the responses of students from each group to the same piece of young adult literature: From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson

Conversation · Cultural pluralism · Diversity (politics · Mathematics education · Multicultural education · Multiculturalism · Pedagogy · Reading (process · Sociology · White (mutation · Critical Race Theory in Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

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