Description
| Product ID: | 9781475842326 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Using Nonfiction for Civic Engagement in Classrooms |
| Subtitle: | Critical Approaches |
| Authors: | Author: Paul H. Ricks, Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Ruth McKoy Lowery |
| Page Count: | 148 |
| Subjects: | Higher education, tertiary education, Higher & further education, tertiary education |
| Description: | The book examines social issues prevalent in nonfiction literature and texts for children, their impact on society, and offers ideas on how educators might guide students to engage these issues effectively and critically. This book acknowledges the existence of high quality nonfiction children’s literature that may serve as a basis for conversation about civic engagements and our roles as global citizens. It touches on our social history, and offers ideas for how educators might be able to engage readers in healthy and useful dialogues on what it means to be human and how nonfiction texts attempt to reconstruct this reality in this quest to recognize our collective humanity. |
| Imprint Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Publisher Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-02-28 |
