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Tackling Children's Literature and Childhood Literacy through Service Learning
- Author(s):
- Elizabeth Goodhue (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Group(s):
- GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature, RCWS Literacy Studies, RCWS Literacy Studies, RCWS Writing Pedagogies
- Subject(s):
- Children's literature, Literature, Teaching, Service learning, Literature--Study and teaching, Young adult literature
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- 2016 MLA Convention
- Conf. Org.:
- Modern Language Association
- Tag(s):
- children's literature, mla16, public, service learning, session 253, Pedagogy, Teaching of literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M63P4G
- Abstract:
- In these remarks for roundtable session 253 at the 2016 MLA convention--titled "An Interactive Conversation about Service Learning in Literary Studies"--Elizabeth Goodhue examines an undergraduate service learning course on children’s literature and childhood literacy that she taught at UCLA. The paper focuses on how community-engaged pedagogy benefits undergraduates as well as the K-12 students at local schools and educational nonprofits partnering with the course. Goodhue describes assignments that ask undergraduates to connect their experiences tutoring K-12 students in reading and writing with historical and contemporary texts and with current trends in literacy education and publishing, such as the recent #weneeeddiversebooks campaign. Goodhue demonstrates how service learning can yield tangible artifacts that benefit community partners and simultaneously guide undergraduates to think creatively about the complex challenges of living in a globally interconnected world, and encourage them to recognize the importance of respecting cultural diversity in curricula and collections.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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