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Understanding Multicultural Literature

Multicultural literature focuses on people from diverse racial, religious, regional, disabled, and aged groups to describe their lives and cultures. It aims to help children understand those different from themselves by increasing knowledge of other societies and highlighting shared humanity. Reading such literature can boost children's self-esteem, sensitivity, awareness of the world, and realization that similarities unite while differences vary across cultures.

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Understanding Multicultural Literature

Multicultural literature focuses on people from diverse racial, religious, regional, disabled, and aged groups to describe their lives and cultures. It aims to help children understand those different from themselves by increasing knowledge of other societies and highlighting shared humanity. Reading such literature can boost children's self-esteem, sensitivity, awareness of the world, and realization that similarities unite while differences vary across cultures.

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What is meant by multicultural literature?

MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE
Violet Harris (1992) through Norton, defines multicultural as literature that focuses on people of colour, on religious minorities, on regional cultures, on the disabled, and on the aged(pg77) Anderson pg 172

Purpose of multicultural lit


Reading multicultural literature can help children gain a better understanding of people from other countries and ethnic backgrounds describing how people live in different parts of the world, or they may portraying how children from different cultural backgrounds live together in the same country.

Why should children read multicultural lit:


Increase self-esteem and make them feel part of a larger society increase their sensitivity to those who are different from themselves improve their knowledge of the world help them realize that although people have many differences, they also share many similarities.

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