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Critical Reading, Critical Literacy, and Critical Classrooms: The Power of Using Picturebooks With Preservice Teachers

Critical Reading, Critical Literacy, and Critical Classrooms: The Power of Using Picturebooks With Preservice Teachers
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Author(s): Melissa Summer Wells (University of Mary Washington, USA), Jennifer D. Morrison (University of South Carolina, USA)and Julia M. López-Robertson (University of South Carolina, USA)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 23
Source title: Handbook of Research on Reconceptualizing Preservice Teacher Preparation in Literacy Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Juan J. Araujo (Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA)and Dawn L. Araujo (Independent Researcher, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8725-6.ch001

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Abstract

Critical reading and critical literacy are skills that preservice teachers need to cultivate not only in their future students, but also in their own literacy practices. Picturebooks have the unique power to facilitate critical reading and critical literacy with preservice teachers. This chapter analyzes critical reading, critical literacy, and the power of picturebooks and then presents three approaches for using picturebooks to develop critical reading and critical literacy skills with preservice teachers: (1) field-based coursework with multicultural children's literature, (2) analyzing voices and perspectives in read-alouds, and (3) analyzing wordless picturebooks. Through intentional use of picturebooks in educator preparation programs, preservice teachers can gain the expertise necessary to use picturebooks to craft their own critical classrooms.

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