June 2-5, 2025
9 am – 4 pm at Worlds of Words, at the University of Arizona
Join us for a four-day in-person workshop to engage in experiences and books that invite children to immerse themselves in literature about refugee and immigrant experiences. In this interactive workshop, you will explore new picturebooks and novels for your work with students and participate in engagements with these books. You will also interact with several children’s authors/illustrators who will join us to talk about their global books. You will receive their picturebooks along with booklists and other materials. Registration is limited to 35. You will receive a PD Certificate.
We are framing this workshop around the conceptual framework of journeys as movement along a pathway to examine the forced and chosen journeys in our own lives. Within this frame, we will explore refugee/immigrant books related to themes of displacement, difficult journeys, detention, belonging, home, language, memory, names, and walls. There will be time to browse books as well as use dialogue strategies to engage with books. We will also share our work with children around these books. Our goal is inviting children to critically engage with story as a means of making sense of their own lives, and of understanding the lives of children whose experiences differ from their own.
Leaders: Regents Professor Kathy G. Short, Dr. Dorea Kleker, and Narges Zandi, University of Arizona
Further details coming soon! Registration opens in January.
Questions, contact: dkleker@arizona.edu or shortk@arizona.edu
This institute is organized and sponsored by the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL) and Worlds of Words Center for Global Literature (WOW).