Exploring Children’s Rights through a Global Literacy Community in the Land of Enchantment

Abstract

The members of the Global Literacy Community of the Land of Enchantment share stories of their journeys in this vignette as each member use global literature to discuss the theme of children's rights as a central focus to the literacy community. Children’s rights as a theme allowed them to rethink the sociopolitical landscape of New Mexico. They could unfold a wide range of social issues through the theme of children’s rights, including immigration issues, bilingual and biliteracy learning, inequality of community resources, poverty, and many more. The ambiguous nature of the group inquiry theme, children’s rights, allowed them to connect sociocultural issues to their teaching of literacy and literature, which mirrors layers of our world.

Keywords

• literacy community
• global children's literature
• text sets
• children's rights
• teaching