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The course titled EDUC 2210: Multicultural Children’s Literature features content such as critical theory, critical race theory, and culturally responsive pedagogy.

The syllabus description states that it is a “survey of multicultural children’s literature” and “includes various authors and illustrators in such genres as the oral tradition, fantasy, realistic and historical fiction, poetry, and picture books.” The course will give “special emphasis” to “teaching from a culturally relevant perspective and creating a diverse classroom library that includes authors and characters who are Black, Indigenous and people of color; women; LGBTQ+; and from a range of religious and cultural backgrounds.”

Course “references” include several texts such as “An author as a counter-storyteller: Applying critical race theory to a Coretta Scott King Award Book. Children’s Literature in Education,” “Critical race theory: What it is not! In M. Lynn, & A. D. Dixson (Eds.), Handbook of critical race theory in education,” and “Confronting the marginalization of culturally responsive pedagogy. Urban Education.”