Integrating Global Literature into the Curriculum

Abstract

The Barron Global Literature Group formed as a teacher study group to pursue the goal of incorporating a global perspective and multicultural literature into students' education and lives. This vignette describes units around global literature with folktales in second grade, Reading Rampage at the public library, middle school cooking around the world, and multicultural art with teens.

Keywords

• global children's literature
• literacy community
• multicultural learning
• teaching
• education