Storytelling Projects on Native American Children’s Literature for Primary English Education: A Case Study

  1. Miralles Alberola, Dolores
  1. 1 Universitat de València
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    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/043nxc105

Revista:
Children's Literature in English Language Education Journal

ISSN: ISSN 2195-5212

Año de publicación: 2022

Volumen: 10

Número: 2

Páginas: 74-97

Tipo: Artículo

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This article describes the experience of a storytelling project undertaken at the University of Alicante (Spain) in a course entitled ‘Didactics of English Language’, followed as part of a BA degree in Primary Education (for students 6–12 years old). The storytelling project was designed by the author of this article and involved student teachers who developed an innovative design integrating Native American children’s and young adult literature by authors Joy Harjo, Luci Tapahonso, Simon Ortiz, Michael Caduto and Joseph Bruchac, among others. This pedagogic experiment gave student teachers the opportunity to discover unfamiliar texts and to explore such texts in the spirit of critical literacy and intercultural citizenship, and to select the necessary tools to develop course syllabi.