Undergraduate Education Majors’ Critical Encounters With Picture Books About Immigration

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Abstract

In this presentation, I will share data collected from an undergraduate education course titled “Immigration and the Diaspora in Education”. The assignments analyzed were designed to give students a supported opportunity to critically engage with various picturebooks representing both historical and contemporary migration to the U.S., and to consider how they approached the text as readers positioned in particular ways. To this end, participants used a set of critical literacy questions (Apol, 1998) to guide their analyses of five picturebooks and respond in writing. Through these “critical encounters” with texts (Appleman, 2009; DeNicolo & Fránquiz, 2006), students engaged in critical literacy practices that held potential for them in their careers as future K-5 teachers.

Author

• Audrey Lucero, University of Oregon