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The book provides relevant theoretical and empirical research findings to address the challenges teachers face when interpreting and teaching with international children's literature from Asia. Strategies are provided relating to how teachers can be more culturally conscious of their own biases and develop culturally appropriate interpretations.
Sommario
Foreword: The Danger of Cultural De-contextualization in Studying Diversity through Literature
Geneva Gay
Preface
Yukari Takimoto Amos
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Daniel Miles Amos
Part I: Issues and Concerns
Chapter 1 - Preparing Our Students for the "Right" Future: Using Children's Literature to Promote Cultural Understanding
Kathy Brashears
Chapter 2 - Authenticity: In the Eye of the Beholder?
Sharryn Larsen Walker
Chapter 3 - Cultural Differences, Interpretations, and Power
Yukari Takimoto Amos
Part II: (Mis)interpretations
Chapter 4 - The Cultural Battle Between East and West: Chinese Mulan Meets Disney's Mulan
Annie Yen Ning Yang
Chapter 5 - Remembering the Dark Past: Stories of the Korean War and Korean Immigration in American Children's Literature
Chong Eun Ahn
Chapter 6 - Reading with Cultural Empathy: Why Is It Difficult?
Yukari Takimoto Amos
Chapter 7 - Reading Analytically and Feeling Connected: When Indonesian Preservice Teachers Read Foreign Stories from China, Iraq, and the U.S.
Tati Lathipatud Durriyah
About the Editors
About the Contributors
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By Yukari Takimoto Amos and Daniel Miles Amos
Riassunto
The book provides relevant theoretical and empirical research findings to address the challenges teachers face when interpreting and teaching with international children’s literature from Asia. Strategies are provided relating to how teachers can be more culturally conscious of their own biases and develop culturally appropriate interpretations.
