ERIC Number: EJ1470521
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jun
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-1082-3301
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1707
Available Date: 2024-06-03
The Other Side: Preschool Children's Experience of a Read-Aloud Focused on Social Justice
Early Childhood Education Journal, v53 n5 p1513-1520 2025
The purpose of this article is to detail preschool age students' exploration of social justice as they cocreated with their teacher an interactive read-aloud approach, named "Picturebooks for Social Justice." Over the three phases, the teacher researcher studied her own preschool teaching as she read and explored 12 picturebooks with the 3-5-year-old children in her preschool class. Guided by relational and critical theoretical perspectives, findings demonstrate and detail examples of the children's learning across the social justice standards of identity, diversity, justice, and action. These standards, which functioned both as the content and the goals of "Picturebooks for Social Justice," were explored through books in the context of the strong bond between the children and teacher. The insights gained in this study can guide educators and researchers in understanding young children's capacity to explore and understand social justice.
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Reading Aloud to Others, Oral Reading, Social Justice, Picture Books, Self Concept, Diversity, Teacher Student Relationship, Learning Processes
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Niagara University, College of Education, Niagara University, USA