University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Dissertations UMSL Graduate Works 7-9-2010 Reading with a Critical Global Perspective: A Study of Children's & Adolescent's Literature on South Asia, 1989-2009. Manika Subi Lakshmanan University of Missouri-St. Louis,
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[email protected]. READING WITH A CRITICAL GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: A STUDY OF CHILDREN‘S AND ADOLESCENT‘S LITERATURE ON SOUTH ASIA, 1989-2009. by MANIKA SUBI LAKSHMANAN B.A., University of Perugia, Italy, 1980 M.A.T., Webster University, St. Louis, 2005 A DISSERTATION THESIS Submitted to the Graduate School of the UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST.LOUIS In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in EDUCATION July, 2010 Advisory Committee E. Wendy Saul, Ph.D. Chairperson Charles Fazzaro, Ed.D. Nancy Robb Singer, Ph.D. Eric Turley, Ph.D. Copyright 2010 by Manika Subi Lakshmanan All Rights Reserved Lakshmanan, Subi, 2010, UMSL, p. iii ABSTRACT This study examines how children‘s and adolescent‘s literature promotes global awareness, cross-cultural understanding and cosmopolitanism.