This collection offers strategies for teaching equity and social justice through children’s literature in undergraduate classrooms. This work includes contributions from scholars who belong to underrepresented groups within academia because of race, nationality, ethnicity, gender identity, and disability.
Category: Books & E-books
Ebooks for the Classroom
As you look forward to the summer and fall semesters, keep in mind that the USF Libraries’ Ebooks for the Classroom program supports textbook affordability and purchases what we can to defray costs to students. Not all publishers will sell e-textbooks to …Continue Reading
Titles for International Women’s Day, 2024
This year’s campaign theme for International Women’s Day, March 8, 2024 is Inspire Inclusion. When we value women’s inclusion, we work toward creating a better world. Read more about what it means to inspire inclusion here. Below is a list of e-books …Continue Reading
Faculty Publication: Dialogic Collaborative Action Research in Science Education
This e-book by Allan Feldman, Jawaher Alsultan, Katie Laux and Molly Nation offers science teacher educators and K-12 science teachers was they can engage in a a dialogic mode of collaborative action research that centers on teacher experiences with their students, reflective …Continue Reading
The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching
Looking to make your teaching more inclusive? You can access this e-book free to all instructors if you sign up for it. After signing up, you will receive immediate access and a link will also be sent to your email. The book …Continue Reading
State Policies on Book Challenges in Schools and Libraries
The University of Michigan Library has an online index and archive of state policies related to book challenges in schools and libraries, beginning September 2023. Resources at this site includes some “lost” or “hidden” documentation behind book challenges and bans in schools …Continue Reading
Faculty Publication: Supporting Korean American Children in Early Childhood Education: Perspectives from Mother-Educators
Supporting Korean American Children in Early Childhood Education: Perspectives from Mother-Educators, by Sophia Han, Jinhee Kim, Sohyun Meacham, Su-Jeong Wee, Nancy File, and Michelle Salazar Perez, offer “insights on Korean American family and parent relations, the dynamisme of Korean American children’s multifacited …Continue Reading
Author visit and presentation: Why Study the Middle Ages?
Please join us on January 25, 2024 at 11 AM in MSC 3707 to hear author Dr. Kisha Tracy talk about her book, Why Study the Middle Ages? Kisha G. Tracy is a Professor of English Studies and Chair of the General …Continue Reading
Featured E-Book: Black Immigrant Literacies
In this work, Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom, author and USF faculty member, Patriann Smith, offers authentic narratives of Afro-Caribbean youth, the author describes how teachers and educators can: (1) teach the Black literate immigrant; …Continue Reading
Celebrate Black History Month with New DEI E-book Titles in Education from the USF Libraries
February is Black History month and we have some great new E-book DEI titles in education from the USF Libraries to celebrate! Check them out. Critical Race Theory and Its Critics: Implications or Research and Teaching, by Fracesca Lopez and Christine E. …Continue Reading