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“Our education cannot be complete until we have had conversations with every continent and every civilization.”
Theodore Zeldin
BuildingInternationally Literate
Communities
Barbara Philip & Katie Day
SLAQ / IASL 2010 Diversity Challenge ResilienceSCHOOL LIBRARIES IN ACTION
September 28, 2010
http://www.kidsglobal read.com
http://www.kidsglobal read.com
• Picture
• Junior
• Middle
• Senior
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Red Dot Awards - 2009
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Red Dot Awards - 2010
China
Japan
Sakura
Being Internationally Literate can
be defined as the ability to “read” other
cultures whether in person, or via text
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The Danger of the Single Story
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The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY)
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“Children need books that are mirrors and books that are windows”
Jella Lepman
Types of Cultural Books
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Multi-cultural Literature
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Inter-cultural Literature
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Cross-cultural Literature
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Single-culture Literature
Trans-cultural Literature
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Relevance and Appeal to the Reader
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Cultural Content and Accessibility to the Reader
• Accuracy
• Authority
• Authenticity
• Availability
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The best way to build internationally literate communities is to work on becoming more internationally literate ourselves, individually and as networks, then spreading the resources and opportunities to read more widely to our students, teachers, and parents.
barbara.philip@tts.edu.sg
katie.appleton.day@gmail.com
Further references will be publicly available on the Kids Global Read website after 30/09/10 Adichie, Chimamanda. Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story. TED Ideas Worth Spreading. TED, July 2009. Web. 5 June 2010. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html “City Stories: Tales from Here and There.” Indiaclub.com. N.p., 2008? Web. 5 June 2010. <http://www.indiaclub.com/ shop/ SearchResults.asp?ProdStock=26302>. Day, Katie and Philip, Barbara. Kids Global Read. N.p., 2010. Web. 5 June 2010. http://sites.google.com/site/kidsglobalread/ Flint, Shamini. “Young Readers.” Shamini Flint. N.p., 2008. Web. 5 June 2010. http://www.shaminiflint.com/books-youngreaders.html Foo, Adeline. The Diary of Amos Lee - I Sit, I Write, I Flush. Pixie Books, 2010. Web. 5 June 2010. http://www.amoslee.com.sg/ home.html Google Books. Google, 2010. Web. 5 June 2010. http://books.google.com.sg/books Heyward, M. “From International to Intercultural: Redefining the International School for a Globalised World.” Journal of Research in International Education 1.9 (2002): 9-32. Print. International Baccalaureate Organization. “IB Community Theme: Sharing our humanity.” ibo.org. International Baccalaureate Organization, 2010. Web. 5 June 2010. http://communitytheme.ibo.org/ “IB World - January 2008.” IB World Magazine Jan. 2008: n. pag. Web. 5 June 2010. http://www.ibo.org/ibworld/jan2008/index.cfm. The International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). “Welcome to IBBY.” IBBY. The International Board on Books for Young People , 28 May 2010. Web. 5 June 2010. http://www.ibby.org/ International School Libraries Network (Singapore). Hands On Literacy in the 21st Century Classroon and Library. International School Libraries Network (Singapore), 2010. Web. 5 June 2010. http://www.handsonlit.com/ International School Libraries Network (Singapore) - ISLN. ISLN, June 2010. Web. 5 June 2010. http://silcsing.wikispaces.com/ “Red Dot Children’s Choice Book Awards.” Red Dot Book Awards 2009-2010 . International School Libraries (ISLN) Singapore, May 2010. Web. 5 June 2010. http://www.reddotawards.com/ Lipp, Frederick. “Fred’s Books.” Kids Go Global. Frederick Lipp, 2007. Web. 5 June 2010. http://www.fredericklipp.com/books.php McCrum, Robert. Globish: How English conquered the world: a Guns, Germs, and Steel argument based on the power of the word . Canada: Doubleday, 2010. Print. “Picture Books - Home from Home.” mccmcreations.com. mccmcreations.com, 2006. Web. 5 June 2010. http://www.mccmcreations.com/books/picture%20books/home%20from%20home/main.htm Pollock, David and Van Reken, Ruth. Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds. London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2001. Print. Pratt, Linda, and Beaty, Janice J. Transcultural Children’s Literature. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999. Print. Rifkin, Jeremy. The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis . Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2010. Print. RSA Animate - The Empathic Civilisation. You Tube. Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 6 May 2010. Web. 5 June 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g&feature=player_embedded Skelton, Martin, et al. “Beyond Food, Festivals, and Flags.” Educational Leadership: The World in the Classroom 60.2 (2002): 52-55. Web. 5 May 2010. http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el200210_skelton.pdf Tan, Teri. “Children’s Book Publishing in Asia: Developing originals and translating go hand-in-hand .” Publishers Weekly (Mar. 2009): n. pag. Web. 29 May 2010. <http://www.publishersweekly.com/ pw/ by-topic/ childrens/ childrens-book-news/ article/ 10035-children-e2-80-99s-book-publishing-in-asia-.html>.