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Demonstrating the power of teaching global literature from a critical literacy perspective, this book explores the ways that K-6 educators can infuse diverse texts into their classrooms and find support for their endeavours in teacher inquiry communities. Through carefully analyzed, ethnographically informed portraits of classroom life alternating with teachers’ own accounts of their teaching and learning experiences, it demonstrates how students are moved to question, debate, and take action in response to global texts. This multi-vocal work both emerges from and responds to tensions and debates related to the purpose and practice of literature education in a time of Common Core State Standards.

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Kelly W. Wissman is an Associate Professor of Literacy Teaching and Learning at the University at Albany, USA. Maggie Naughter Burns is a Reading Specialist at Delaware Community School, Albany, NY, USA. Krista Jiampetti is a Literacy Facilitator at Lisha Kill Middle School, Albany, NY, USA. Heather O’Leary is a teacher of English as a New Language in the Schenectady City School District, Schenectady, New York, USA. Simeen Tabatabai is a Reading Teacher at Southgate Elementary School, Albany, NY, USA.

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