Supporting immigrant students' understanding of U.S. culture through children's literature. From: Childhood Education | Date: June 22, 2008| Author: Akrofi, Amma K.; Swafford, Jeanne; Janisch, Carole; Liu, Xiaoming; Durrington, Vance | COPYRIGHT 2008 Association for Childhood Education International. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

How could I, as me, meet these new people? How would I have to change? What of me was superficial and might be sacrificed, and what need I keep to remain my self?

--T. E. Lawrence (Cited in Clayton, 2003, p. 134)

We begin this article with what we believe is an implicit endorsement of an integration orientation toward acculturation. This orientation would suggest that students in our classrooms who are immigrants hold on to aspects of their ethnic culture whil...