Deepening Literacy Learning

A volume in TeachingLearning Indigenous, Intercultural Worldviews:International Perspectives on Social Justice and Human RightsSeries Editor: Tonya Huber, St. Cloud State University, MinnesotaIn an increasingly global learning environment, teachers are challenged to meet amyriad of student needs-provide basic literacy and mathematics skills, improvescientific and technological thinking, increase bilingual and multi-lingualcompetencies. Reilly and Gangi provide a new vision of what it means to beliterate and, more important, what it means to be a global citizen. This volumerepresents a wonderful move away from schooling and toward education.Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-MadisonMary Ann Reilly and Jane M. Gangi’s book, Deepening Literacy Learning: Art and Literature Engagements inK-8 Classrooms, is a wonderful blending of methodologies. This juxtaposition of art and literature serves as aninstrument for teachers to inspire their students to create, critique, compare and predict, all higher-levelintellectual behaviors, while composing across symbol systems. The work contains detailed classroomtranscripts of strategies that lend themselves to culturally responsive teaching while engaging students anddeveloping in them the desire to learn.Judi Groves, Artist in Education, Arkansas City Arts CouncilBurford Center for the Arts, Kansas