Using Picture Books to Promote Empathy, Belonging, and Social Justice in Pre-K and Kindergarten
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2026
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-8353-5 (ISBN)
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-8353-5 (ISBN)
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Empower preschool and kindergarten educators to ignite vital conversations on social justice through culturally relevant picture books. Offering research-based strategies, hands-on activities, and curated reading lists, the guide fosters empathy, critical thinking, and a strong sense of cultural identity in young learners.
This timely book offers preschool and kindergarten teachers practical, research-based strategies for how to use culturally relevant picture books to discuss social justice and equity with young children. It includes activities and dozens of recommended children’s books that will help students understand their own social, cultural, and linguistic identities.
This book challenges outdated literacy norms and calls on educators to center picture books about children’s different identities, talents, and lived experiences. The authors show how picture books rooted in social justice and equity become powerful tools for fostering critical thinking, empathy, a sense of belonging, and meaningful dialogue. Through shared reading and thoughtful discussion, teachers can help young learners explore big ideas, such as fairness, culture, and identity. Now is the time to place powerful stories in the hands of young learners. Let this book be your guide to cultivating classrooms where equity is not just an ideal, but a daily reality.
Book Features:
Provides in-depth descriptions of effective classroom strategies for using picture books with social justice content and images.
Alleviates teachers’ potential discomfort around social justice and equity by using children’s literature to identify and discuss unfair practices in the world.
Highlights the capacity for young children to engage in critical conversations when developing their notions of themselves and the world they live in.
Includes annotated lists of recommended children’s picture books, websites, podcasts, and videos.
This timely book offers preschool and kindergarten teachers practical, research-based strategies for how to use culturally relevant picture books to discuss social justice and equity with young children. It includes activities and dozens of recommended children’s books that will help students understand their own social, cultural, and linguistic identities.
This book challenges outdated literacy norms and calls on educators to center picture books about children’s different identities, talents, and lived experiences. The authors show how picture books rooted in social justice and equity become powerful tools for fostering critical thinking, empathy, a sense of belonging, and meaningful dialogue. Through shared reading and thoughtful discussion, teachers can help young learners explore big ideas, such as fairness, culture, and identity. Now is the time to place powerful stories in the hands of young learners. Let this book be your guide to cultivating classrooms where equity is not just an ideal, but a daily reality.
Book Features:
Provides in-depth descriptions of effective classroom strategies for using picture books with social justice content and images.
Alleviates teachers’ potential discomfort around social justice and equity by using children’s literature to identify and discuss unfair practices in the world.
Highlights the capacity for young children to engage in critical conversations when developing their notions of themselves and the world they live in.
Includes annotated lists of recommended children’s picture books, websites, podcasts, and videos.
Isauro M. Escamilla is an assistant professor of elementary education at San Francisco State University. Iliana Alanís is professor of early childhood and elementary education at the University of Texas-San Antonio. Daniel Meier is professor of elementary education at San Francisco State University.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.1.2026 |
|---|---|
| Co-Autor | Patricia Sullivan, Maria Leija |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8077-8353-6 / 0807783536 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8077-8353-5 / 9780807783535 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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