Five tips to make school bookshelves more diverse and five books to get you started
- Written by Helen Joanne Adam, Lecturer in Literacy Education and Children's Literature, Edith Cowan University
Children need to be able to see themselves in the books they read.Cockburn Libraries/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND
A lack of diverse books is failing children from minority backgrounds. This is something that should concern all Australians.
I studied five Australian early learning settings and found less than 5% of books contained cultural diversity. My more...
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