Negotiating culturally responsive pedagogy through multicultural children's literature: Towards critical democratic literacy practices in a first grade classroom

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-74

  Souto Manning, Mariana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical literacy events; Culturally responsive pedagogy; Democratic practices; Early childhood; Multicultural children's literature; Social action

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849338916     PISSN: 14687984     EISSN: 17412919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468798408101105     Document Type: Article

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