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3.6.2 Diverse Social and Emotional Learning Booklist from Around the World for Gifted Students
This presentation is intended to build the capacity of educators to know about multicultural picturebooks and their significance in helping develop the social and emotional learning competencies of high ability learners. There is significant empirical evidence indicating how multicultural books are able to develop empathy among children (Bal & Veltkamp, 2013), provide the foundational framework needed to promote a greater appreciation of diversity, and the building of compassion (Harper, 2016). Literature has likewise been proven to be an effective tool to address high ability learners’ socio-emotional concerns (Abellán-Pagnani & Hébert, 2013), particularly among gifted students who are considered double minorities (gifted and of a different race and/or linguistic background and/or of low income status) (Stambaugh & Ford, 2015). In this presentation, highly diverse text-sets from around the world will be shared to help gifted students develop empathy, and a global understanding of their identities and place in the world.
Author(s):
Rhoda Myra Garces-Bacsal
rhoda.bacsal@nie.edu.sg
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Dr. Myra Garces-Bacsal is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She served as the Programme Leader of the Masters Program in High Ability Studies and is currently co-Coordinator of the Diploma in Special Education, the Professional Development Leader, and Pedagogical Developments and Innovations Leader of Early Childhood and Special Needs Education Academic Group. She was also selected by the International Youth Library in Munich as one of their International Fellows in 2016 and 2017. She shares her passion for reading and book hunting in her website http://gatheringbooks.org followed by over 200 countries.