This article (a) explores the experience of an early childhood teacher researcher as she
intentionally uses interactive read‐alouds to promote social justice and to encourage critical …

The purpose of this article is to detail preschool age students' exploration of social justice as
they cocreated with their teacher an interactive read-aloud approach, named Picturebooks …

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 …

This article highlights the Picturebooks for Social Justice approach which the author
developed within her preschool program. Picturebooks for Social Justice was born of 2-year …

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 …

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 …

This study examines how critical literacy read-alouds can be facilitated in an early childhood
setting. More specifically, it describes how books allow young children to connect with …

In this research, I analyze how seven teachers in four different school settings use picture
book read-alouds to engage their students as growing readers while engaging them in …

Despite the dominant discourse that childhood is a time of innocence, elementary students
(kindergarten through fifth grade) notice the world around them, witness and experience …

Abstract Using Alexis Jemal's conceptualization of transformative potential, founded on
Paulo Freire's idea of Critical Consciousness, a guiding transformative justice approach and …