Essay Review: Crossing Borders/Shifting Paradigms: Multiculturalism and Children's Literature

Autor:	Elaine Schwartz
Rok vydání:	1995
Předmět:	media_common.quotation_subject Multicultural education Gender studies Representation (arts) Democracy Education Power (social and political) State (polity) Aesthetics Multiculturalism Cultural diversity Quality (philosophy) Sociology media_common
Zdroj:	Harvard Educational Review. 65:634-651
ISSN:	1943-5045 0017-8055
DOI:	10.17763/haer.65.4.6231502vv4n36756
Popis:	If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, course and sing, in all the undeniable and representative and participating voices of everybody here. We would make our language conform to the truth of our many selves and we would make our language lead us into the quality of power that a democratic state must represent. (Jordan, 1987, p. 24) June Jordan's words bring forth a utopian vision of a future in which issues of language, voice, truth, power, and democracy all come together in the creation of a culturally diverse democratic world. She speaks in the language of a critical multiculturalism, one in which words such as representation, many selves, power, and democracy are integral. In this article, I develop a broad understanding of the basic epistemological positions underlying the discourse of multicultural education and, in particular, multiculturalism in children's literature.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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