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In this innovative and engaging text, Vivian Maria Vasquez draws on her own classroom experience to demonstrate how issues raised from everyday conversations with pre-kindergarten children can be used to create an integrated critical literacy curriculum over the course of one school year. The strategies presented are solidly grounded in relevant theory and research. The author describes how she and her students negotiated a critical literacy curriculum; shows how they dealt with particular social and cultural issues and themes; and shares the insights she gained as she attempted to understand what it means to frame ones teaching from a critical literacy perspective.
New in the 10th Anniversary Edition
New section: "Getting Beyond Prescriptive Curricula, the Mandated Curriculum, and Core Standards"
New feature: "Critical Reflections and Pedagogical Suggestions" at the end of the demonstration chaptesr
New Appendices: "Resources for Negotiating Critical Literacies" and "Alternate Possibilities for Conducting an Audit Trail"
Companion Website: narratives of ways in which the audit trail has been used as a tool for teaching and learning; resources on critical literacy including links to other websites and blogs; podcast focused on critical literacy and young children
List of contents
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Creating Spaces for Critical Literacy
Chapter 2: Getting Started: Setting the Scene
Chapter 3: The French Café
Chapter 4: Our Friend is a Vegetarian
Chapter 5: Save the Beluga
Chapter 6: We Know How McDonald’s Thinks
Chapter 7: A Look Back Over the Year
Appendix A: Resources for Negotiating Critical Literacies
Appendix B: Alternate Possibilities for Constructing an Audit Trail
References
Author Index
Subject Index
About the author
Vivian Maria Vasquez is Professor, American University, School of Education, Teaching and Health, USA.
Summary
In this innovative and engaging text the author describes how she and her pre-kindergarten students negotiated a critical literacy curriculum and shows how issues raised from everyday conversations can be used to create an integrated critical literacy curriculum.
