Given a bequest of 500 years of colonization, pity and revelation stories for children and immature adults about formidable truths is vicious in relocating brazen towards reconciliation. As partial of a journey, increasing sensibilities and approaches are indispensable and give arise to many questions. How can children’s novel be decolonized and done suitable for 21st century learners? What purpose do writers, illustrators, teachers, teacher-librarians and children’s librarians play in a process? What reliable and deferential approaches are employed to decolonize a creation, distribution and use of literature, generally about issues that readers find stressful and upsetting? Who should tell a stories? What are a risks and advantages of allowance and commodification of informative heritage? And what vicious research skills are essential when compelling and pity novel that is both ancestral and an ongoing countenance of colonization? Join a School Library Day conversation, to hear from a panelists.
Event Details:
When: October 26, 2016 4:00-6:00 pm
Where: Irving K. Barber Centre Chilcotin Board Room (Room 256)
Panelists:
Maggie De Vries will pronounce as a author and editor. She edited Fatty Legs and A Stranger during Home and wrote a teen novel, Rabbit Ears.
Gordon Powell will yield insights as a teacher, teacher-librarian and district principal for Aboriginal Education in Surrey about First Nations collections and integrating aboriginal content.
Julie Flett will pronounce about her work as a Cree-Metis Canadian author and illustrator and how she indigenizes design books for children.
Arushi Raina will criticism about apartheid and flourishing adult as a teen in South Africa and how that shabby her entrance immature adult novel, When Morning Comes.
Free event, featuring light food and refreshments.
Webcasts of past National School Library Day Events include:
“Video Games and Youth“
“Engaging Youth with Indigenous Materials in Libraries and Classrooms”
“Connecting Authors and Readers: Documenting Atlantic Canadian Books for Youth”
“The Place and Space for Canadian Children’s Literature in Our Lives and Libraries“
National School Library Day Colloquium is hosted by a UBC Education Library and UBC iSchool.
