Speaking Up: Opening Dialogue with Pre-service and In-service Teachers about Reading Children’s Books Inclusive of Lesbian and Gay Families

Authors

Teresa M. Bouley

Keywords

Alternative lifestyles; Children’s literature; Cultural pluralism; Families; Gay parents; Minority families; Single-parent families

Abstract

One of the best ways to include all family structures in classroom practice is through children‘s literature. While more and more quality books depicting family diversity, inclusive of gay and lesbian families, are published every year, it is often the unknown discourse surrounding such readings and the unknown support of the teacher that keeps these books from even entering preschool through grade four classrooms.