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Turning the Page: A Guide to Securing Multicultural Literature for Schools enables educators to examine their feelings about multiculturalism in order to generate a list of multicultural books appropriate for their school. This book is a companion text to Turning the Page: The Ultimate Guide for Teachers to Multicultural Literature.
List of contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Multicultural Literature in the Classroom: The Beginning
Chapter 2. Multicultural Literature: The Foundation of a Multicultural Education Program
Chapter 3. Critical Literacy and Multicultural Literature
Chapter 4. Generating a List of Multicultural Books
Chapter 5. Creating a Task Force
Chapter 6. The Multicultural Summer Reading List
Chapter 7. The Task Force Meets Resistance and Bias
Chapter 8. Normalizing Multiculturalism
Chapter 9. The Key Takeaways: From a Student's Perspective
Chapter 10. The Role of Multicultural Young Adult Literature in Curating an Antiracist Secondary English Curriculum
Appendix A
Appendix B
Definitions of Terms
References
About the Author
About the author
Rachel Slaughter is an author, reading diagnostician, and syndicated columnist. Her research, which explores multicultural literature in private schools through the lens of Critical Pedagogy, has received praise from audiences at regional and national conferences and earned Dr. Slaughter recognition in the world of multicultural literature.
Summary
Turning the Page: A Guide to Securing Multicultural Literature for Schools enables educators to examine their feelings about multiculturalism in order to generate a list of multicultural books appropriate for their school. This book is a companion text to Turning the Page: The Ultimate Guide for Teachers to Multicultural Literature.
