Donna L. Gilton

Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United States (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children's literature in the U.S., as well as related materials published elsewhere. It relates in great detail the people, businesses, organizations, and institutions that create, disseminate, promote, critique, and collect these materials. Author Donna Gilton gives a detailed history of U.S. multicultural and ethnic children's literature throughout several historic periods, relating these developments to general social and political U.S. history. Chapters illustrate characteristics of U.S. multicultural children's books, the major issues in the field, and multicultural initiatives and mainstream responses, while also providing outlines of research possibilities in the field and suggesting other groups of people who should be emphasized more in the future. In doing all this, Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United States brings together valuable and scattered information for the busy and involved librarians, teachers, parents, publishers, distributors, and community leaders who wish to use and promote this material with children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216286349
• Artikelnr.: 75139266

Autorenporträt

Donna L. Gilton earned a bachelor's degree in history and elementary education from Simmons University, a master's degree in library science from Simmons, and a Ph.D in library science from the University of Pittsburgh. In the first twenty years of her career, she served as a librarian at the Boston Public Library, the Belize Teachers' College, Western Kentucky University, and Pennsylvania State University. She is now a professor emerita at the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Gilton published articles on diversity, multiculturalism in libraries, information literacy, and Black Church Studies before publishing the first edition of this book (2007), Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries: Principles, Programs, and People (2012), and Creating and Promoting Lifelong Learning in Public Libraries: Tools and Tips For Practitioners (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 Multicultural Children's Literature: An Introduction
2 A History of Multicultural Children's Literature
3 General Trends in the Field
4 Specific Ethnic Initiatives and Conclusions
5 Where to Go From Here: Emerging Groups and Issues
Bibliography