Does Nonfiction Equate Truth?: Rethinking Disciplinary Boundaries through Critical Literacy

This book emphasizes the importance of teaching nonfiction literature to college students as part of their pre-service education. It provides a variety of nonfiction texts and critical approaches for incorporating them into the curriculum, and encourages teacher educators to nurture a spirit of inquiry and skepticism in the classroom.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 140 pages
Publication date: 15 March 2018
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Educators who teach children's literature at the college level as part of the pre-service experience often fail to allocate sufficient space in the curriculum for nonfiction literature. This book acknowledges the viability of nonfiction as a literary genre that demands critical analysis, celebrates storytelling in its diverse forms, and invites teacher educators and pre-service teachers, our primary audience, to nurture a spirit of inquiry and skepticism in the classroom. It serves as an excellent resource for teacher educators seeking a diverse range of nonfiction texts to incorporate into their literacy curriculum at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Moreover, it provides critical approaches through which students are encouraged to engage with these texts, as well as ideas for conducting critical inquiry with young learners.

Weight: 224g
Dimension: 154 x 228 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781475842302