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Pre-Service Teachers’ Cultural Competence Development Using Multicultural Children’s Literature

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Self-Study and Diversity II

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This study draws from the life study of two teacher educators, one African American, the other Korean. Specifically, this study examines the manner in which children’s literature has intersected their lives and work. For Meach (first author), Little Black Sambo, for instance, was a source of visual horror, as the absence of racial representations in US children’s literature was suddenly filled with the racially distorted illustrations found in Little Black Sambo. For Soh (second author), the same book was a source of delight as she shared it with her early childhood education students as a teacher in South Korea.

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  1. Literacy Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Northern Iowa, US

    Shuaib Meacham

  2. Literacy Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Northern Iowa, US

    Sohyun Meacham

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  1. Brock University, Canada

    Julian Kitchen

  2. University of Northern Iowa, USA

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  3. University of Northern Iowa, USA

    Linda Fitzgerald

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Meacham, S., Meacham, S. (2016). Pre-Service Teachers’ Cultural Competence Development Using Multicultural Children’s Literature. In: Kitchen, J., Tidwell, D., Fitzgerald, L. (eds) Self-Study and Diversity II. Professional Learning. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-534-0_12

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