Rivera Villanueva, Marylian

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Problematizing Yertle the Turtle, the Lorax, and Horton through critical literacy, global issues and Freire’s tenets
(2012) Rivera Villanueva, Marylian; Román Pérez, Rosa I.; College of Arts and Sciences - Arts; Irizarry Rodríguez, José M.; Carroll, Kevin S.; Department of English; Parés Matos, Elsie I.
Through the use of children’s literature, this thesis encourages educators and parents to expose children, from an early age to texts that promote critical thinking. In order to identify texts that do so, an evaluation tool was done to three Dr. Seuss books to identify if they portrayed McDaniel’s characteristics of critical literacy, three of Freire’s tenets, and Yakovchuk’s global issues. After each of the elements were identified in the Dr. Seuss’s books Yertle the Turtle, The Lorax and Horton Hears a Who!; the findings were critically analyzed using a holistic approach. As a result, these evaluations revealed that the three Dr. Seuss's books lend themselves to the use of critical pedagogy by presenting the characteristics of critical literacy, Freire’s tenets, and global issues. Ultimately, this thesis motivates educators and parents to choose books which encourage children to think critically and become active agents in their world.