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Teaching with a Values Stance for Global Citizenship

Integrating Children’s Literature

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Children’s literature as a selection and compilation of symbols, words, diagrams and pictures is a message mechanism that is today multimodal in its delivery. Tschida, Ryan and Ticknor (2014) assert that children’s literature is ‘one of the primary conduits for sending messages to students’ (p. 28).

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Bradbery, D., Brown, J. (2015). Teaching with a Values Stance for Global Citizenship. In: Reynolds, R., et al. Contesting and Constructing International Perspectives in Global Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-989-0_11

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