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Critical Literacy Book Club: Making Sense of Critical Literacy and Diverse, Social Issues Picturebooks with Preservice Teachers

Winn, Vanessa Grace
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6486-2281
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1540291811714172

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2018, Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, Educational Leadership.
The purpose of this research inquiry was to understand how preservice teachers, in the social engagement of a book club meeting, understand critical literacy and narrate their positionalities. The research question asked are (1) How does a critical literacy book club serve as a social space for preservice teachers to construct critical literacy? And (2) How do preservice teachers narrate their positionality while participating in a critical literacy book club reading social issues picturebooks? A case study method bounded the scope of this research to the book club session meetings and all participants involved. The data produced from the case study which utilized post-structural frameworks on critical literacy was analyzed qualitatively using three rounds of coding: categorizing, in vivo coding, and conceptual coding to determine themes that answer the research questions. The findings suggest that preservice teachers benefit from familiarizing themselves with socio-cultural content in texts, personally engaging with the texts in conversation, and supporting one another when discussing texts. Critical literacy was primarily understood as traditional reading. Also discussed is how preservice teachers responded differentially to representations of social identity differences in the texts and in turn constructed their own and others’ positionality. In conclusion, recommendations are made for book clubs as a research site, the role of the researcher in a critical literacy book club, and book club text selection.
Brittany Aronson (Advisor)
Lisa Weems (Advisor)
261 p.
Education
critical literacy; picturebooks; social issues texts; social justice; preservice teachers

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  • Winn, V. G. (2018). Critical Literacy Book Club: Making Sense of Critical Literacy and Diverse, Social Issues Picturebooks with Preservice Teachers [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1540291811714172

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Winn, Vanessa. Critical Literacy Book Club: Making Sense of Critical Literacy and Diverse, Social Issues Picturebooks with Preservice Teachers. 2018. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1540291811714172.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Winn, Vanessa. "Critical Literacy Book Club: Making Sense of Critical Literacy and Diverse, Social Issues Picturebooks with Preservice Teachers." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1540291811714172

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