Education 784 - Soc Issues Child & Young Lit

This course creates a space for pre-K to grade 12 teachers, literacy coaches, and researchers of languages, literacies, and literatures to refine and fortify their critical multicultural reading of social issues in children's and young adult literature. We will consider the social issues of family, linguistic, and cultural diversity; gender, sexuality, class, and race; war and peace, and the like. Participants will select and analyze relevant social issues or design an action plan based on their new understandings of critical teaching literature.