Chapter 3: Social Justice-Themed Book Clubs: Possibilities and Wonderings

In this article, the researchers set out to explore how one group of early childhood students understood social justice and how they created possible counter-narratives. Believing that literacy is a social practice in an ever-changing world and that teaching activism in the classroom involves making a distinction between interpreting and changing the world, book clubs were created to explore how children respond to social justice themed texts (Gee, 1996; Hengen Fox, 2012).