By Education Library on Oct 19, 2016
Reconciling Difficult Colonial Truths: Literature for Children and Youth
۴:۰۰-۶:۰۰ pm. Wednesday, Oct 26, 2016
Irving K. Barber Center, Chilcotin Board Room, Rm 256
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.
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.
Videopodcasts of past National School Library Day Events are accessible during http://www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/category/webcasts/library-and-information-science/
۲۰۱۰ Video Games and Youth Eric Meyers and Kathy Sanford
۲۰۱۱ Project Information Literacy Michael Eisenberg
۲۰۱۲ Engaging Youth with Indigenous Materials Debra Martel and Allison Taylor-McBryde
۲۰۱۳ BC’s New Education Plan School Libraries during a Centre of Learning Gino Bondi, Patricia Finlay
۲۰۱۴ Connecting Authors and Readers Vivian Howard
۲۰۱۵ The Place and Space for Canadian Children’s Literature in Our Lives and Libraries Maggie de Vries, Jan Hare, Judith Saltman and Yukiko Tosa
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