Critical Content Analysis of Childrens and Young Adult Literature: Reframing Perspective [Paperback]

In this book the authors describe their strategies for critically reading global and multicultural literature and the range of procedures they use for critical analyses. They also reflect on how these research strategies can inform classrooms and children as readers. Critical content analysis offers researchers a methodology for examining representations of power and position in global and multicultural childrens and adolescent literature. This methodology highlights the critical as locating power in social practices by understanding, uncovering, and transforming conditions of inequity. Importantly, it also provides insights into specific global and multicultural books significant within classrooms as well as strategies that teachers can use to engage students in critical literacy.

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Critical Content Analysis as a Research Methodology

Kathy G. Short

Chapter 2 The Critical Reading of Childrens Texts: Theories, Methodologies, and Critiques Clare Bradford

Chapter 3 Examining Displaced Youth and Immigrant Status through Critical Multicultural Analysis

Holly Johnson & Becca Gasiewicz

Chapter 4 Using Intertextuality to Unpack Representations of Immigration in Childrens Literature

Yoo Kyung Sung, Mary L. Fahrenbruck, and Julia Lopez-Robertson

Chapter 5 When Entertainment Trumps Social Concerns: The Commodification of Mexican Culture and Language in Skippyjon Jones.

Carmen M. Mart?nez-Rold?n

Chapter 6 Having Something of Their Own : Passing on a Counter-Story about Family Bonds, Racism and Land Ownership

Wanda Brooklãz