All too often, race and equity are not discussed in early childhood contexts for fear that
children are too young or innocent to grapple with such topics. In this yearlong action …

This reflective narrative explores two university professors and one preservice teacher's
attempts to teach for social justice through justice-oriented children's literature in an …

Enlisting pre‐service teachers to engage in critical thought about diversity, equity,
democracy, and power relationships is a challenging responsibility. The authors' work at a …

The US student body is rapidly diversifying, but remains unmatched by the teachers who
serve in their classrooms. There is a growing understanding that teachers, particularly White …

A novice teacher educator and a novice teacher describe their evolving understandings of
teaching children's literature with a social justice perspective. These understandings are …

During a time when gender-specific ideology, heterosexism, and transphobic and
homophobic bullying are rampant in schools, how can we begin to develop more inclusive …

In this paper, the authors specifically consider what it means to engage as a critical white
social educator of young, racially diverse children. They document how one third-grade …

In this article, I present the description of the learning and social action that unfolded through
critical literacy events in my first grade classroom. Resulting from teacher action research …

This is a case study of an elementary teacher's decision to add multicultural children's books
to her curriculum and an analysis of how her ideologies about race shaped the classroom …

Teaching Tough Topics shows teachers how to lead students to become caring citizens as
they read and respond to quality children's literature. It focuses on topics that can be …