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Critically Reading the Word and the World: Building Intercultural Understanding through Literature
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 47, Number 2, April 2009
- pp. 1-10
- 10.1353/bkb.0.0160
- Article
- Additional Information
This collaborative project involves teachers in a small public elementary school in Tucson, Arizona in the USA. They examine the pedagogical issues and strategies involved in integrating international literature into the curriculum beyond a “tourist” approach, encouraging close critical reading in developing children’s understandings of culture and the world.