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Using Jewish Children’s Literature in Classrooms
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2022
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Children’s literature is ubiquitous in preschool and elementary school classrooms and in school libraries. Teachers use children’s literature for pedagogical purposes and to excite children’s imaginations and expose them to “worlds” beyond their own experience. Over the past thirty years, teachers have increasingly used children’s literature to expose their students to cultural, racial, and religious diversity as well as introducing their students to issues of social justice and social equity. Unfortunately, Jewish children’s literature is often absent in the preschool and elementary school classroom. When it is present, it is almost exclusively Holocaust literature. The result is that Jewish people are nearly invisible in the children’s literature found in preschool and elementary school classrooms and when it is available, it presents a “picture” to children of Jews as victims. The purpose of our book is to address this problematic situation and provide teachers with guidance in the use of Jewish children’s literature in the preschool and elementary school classroom.
There is a broad range of authentic, high quality Jewish children’s literature that could be used by preschool and elementary school teachers regardless of how many Jewish children they have in their class. It is as important for teachers with no Jewish children in their classroom as it is for teachers with some or many Jewish children in the class to expose all of their students to Jewish children’s literature. Our book introduces preschool and elementary teachers to a broad range of high-quality children’s literature books and stories and provides them with background information so that they can use Jewish children’s literature thoughtfully with their students.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-6535-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-6537-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
206
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Introduction Why and How to Use Jewish Children’s Literature in the Preschool and Elementary School Classroom No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 1 What Makes Jewish Children’s Literature Jewish? No access Pages 11 - 24
Chapter 2 What Is Our Story? What Is Our History? A History of Jewish Children’s Literature No access Pages 25 - 40
Chapter 3 What Is Love?Stories of Family, Friendship, Animals, and Nature No access Pages 41 - 56
Chapter 4 What Is Time?Jewish Rites and Holidays through Jewish Children’s Literature No access Pages 57 - 78
Chapter 5 What Is Wisdom and What Is Foolishness? Humor and Jewish Literature for Children No access Pages 79 - 102
Chapter 6 What Is Evil? How Might We Respond to Evil?Jewish Children’s Literature, Anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust No access Pages 103 - 130
Chapter 7 What Is Justice? What Is a Righteous Person to Do? Jewish Children’s Literature and the Pursuit of Tikkun Olam No access Pages 131 - 150
Chapter 8 How Might We Imagine Life for Ourselves Together in the World? Using Jewish Children’s Literature in Multicultural Education No access Pages 151 - 166
Glossary No access Pages 167 - 172
Appendix A Select List of Jewish Children’s Literature Organized by Topics/Themes No access Pages 173 - 188
Appendix B Select Resources for Using Jewish Children’s Literature in the Preschool through Elementary Classroom No access Pages 189 - 192
Appendix C Select List of Professional and Scholarly Books and Articles on Jewish Children’s Literature No access Pages 193 - 193
