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Background
Background/Reference Sources for Education Reform
Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.
"Distinguished by its multidisciplinary approach, it describes and analyzes the different aspects of literary reading, texts, and contexts to illuminate how the book is transformed within and across different academic figurations of reading and interpreting children's literature."
Provides an overview of children’s literature. The book offers relevant sections on book picture books as well as current issues within children’s books including race and sexual orientation.
A multicultural resource guide arranged thematically including but not limited to Identity and Self-Image, Family and Friends, Traditions, Exploring the Past in Diverse Communities, bullies and bullying.
The focus is on books with multicultural themes or diverse experiences.
Examines the ways pictures communicate information. It examines baby books, alphabet books and then moves on to well-known children’s authors such as Maurice Sendak.
"The major aim of this encyclopedia is to describe the most important concepts, theories, research, policies, case studies, and programs at the pre-school through the postsecondary levels and their implications for educational reform."
Journals
Databases
"an extensive array of information about children's books, video and audio recordings, film strips, and other children-focused media."
Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.
The most important index to journals, books and dissertations in literature and language. Produced by the Modern Language Association.
