Widening the World: Mapping Global Literature in a Kindergarten Classroom

Abstract

I consider myself lucky to teach in school where diversity and culture are valued through celebrations and classroom studies. There are many cultures that make up my school community and each student is exposed extensively to the world’s geography. However, as I attended our Teacher Talk meetings each month, I began to wonder how much of the literature that the students at my school were exposed to was reflective of multicultural or global literature.

Keywords

• global children's literature