This week there were a couple of topics covered and there all centered around multiculturalism and children’s literature. The textbook covers what multicultural literature is, the value of it, how to identify a piece of multicultural literature, the evolution of it, issues related to multicultural literature, and the awards given to multicultural books. This week I also did deeper research Multicultural literature and education in Afghanistan. This week we also had to read five Jane Addams award winning books, which topics which included a little girl who had many things to overcome after getting polio, a lady who makes friends with the neighbor boy who later becomes family, a boy thinking he is bigger and better than an ant, a story about
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The book Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan, is written from an outsider’s perspective, yet it seems so real, so real in fact that last year in Florida, many parents got together to get the book removed from their school library, because of its content (Taft 2015). This book is different than many others I read this week, because of the culture it was about, it was about an underrepresented culture (Temple, Martinez, Yokota, 2015, p.99). Although this book is form an outside perspective, it is still authentic, the author must have done many hours of research on Afghanistan. According to Yokota (1993) “there are some authors who successfully write of another cultural group’s experiences with a sensitivity gained through extensive research” (p.159). Additional research I found the context of the story to be similar. I found that only “14 percent” of women and girls in Afghanistan are literate (UNGEI). When compared to an insider’s perspective of similar event you could imagine that from another female’s point of view the stories would be similar. In Afghanistan Women are “deprived of their right to education” and “are imprisoned in their homes, and denied education” (U.s. Department of State). Only a Multicultural book would be able to give this information in an authentic way, in American Literature this wouldn’t be a true story it would be fictional because in America we do not have issues like the ones in Afghanistan described in this
The book Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan, is written from an outsider’s perspective, yet it seems so real, so real in fact that last year in Florida, many parents got together to get the book removed from their school library, because of its content (Taft 2015). This book is different than many others I read this week, because of the culture it was about, it was about an underrepresented culture (Temple, Martinez, Yokota, 2015, p.99). Although this book is form an outside perspective, it is still authentic, the author must have done many hours of research on Afghanistan. According to Yokota (1993) “there are some authors who successfully write of another cultural group’s experiences with a sensitivity gained through extensive research” (p.159). Additional research I found the context of the story to be similar. I found that only “14 percent” of women and girls in Afghanistan are literate (UNGEI). When compared to an insider’s perspective of similar event you could imagine that from another female’s point of view the stories would be similar. In Afghanistan Women are “deprived of their right to education” and “are imprisoned in their homes, and denied education” (U.s. Department of State). Only a Multicultural book would be able to give this information in an authentic way, in American Literature this wouldn’t be a true story it would be fictional because in America we do not have issues like the ones in Afghanistan described in this