A volume in TeachingLearning Indigenous, Intercultural Worldviews:
International Perspectives on Social Justice and Human Rights
Series Editor: Tonya Huber, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota
In an increasingly global learning environment, teachers are challenged to meet a
myriad of student needs-provide basic literacy and mathematics skills, improve
scientific and technological thinking, increase bilingual and multi-lingual
competencies. Reilly and Gangi provide a new vision of what it means to be
literate and, more important, what it means to be a global citizen. This volume
represents a wonderful move away from schooling and toward education.
Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mary Ann Reilly and Jane M. Gangi's book, Deepening Literacy Learning: Art and Literature Engagements in
K-8 Classrooms, is a wonderful blending of methodologies. This juxtaposition of art and literature serves as an
instrument for teachers to inspire their students to create, critique, compare and predict, all higher-level
intellectual behaviors, while composing across symbol systems. The work contains detailed classroom
transcripts of strategies that lend themselves to culturally responsive teaching while engaging students and
developing in them the desire to learn.
Judi Groves, Artist in Education, Arkansas City Arts Council
Burford Center for the Arts, Kansas