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- Title: Gender, Racial, And Ethnic Misrepresentation in Children's Books: A Comparative Look (Review of Research) (Report)
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 206 KB
Description
How children's books portray various groups is very important for educators to consider. In many literate cultures, values and attitudes are transmitted through storytelling, often involving the use of children's books (Kortenhaus & Demarest, 1993; Roberts, Dean, & Holland, 2005). Young children usually enjoy having a book read to them. Unfortunately, children's literature traditionally has not been authentic in representing the experiences of many ethnic and racial minority groups (Nieto, 1996). Research also indicates that children's books do not always portray the female gender equally to the male (Davis & McDaniel, 1999; Kortenhaus & Demarest, 1993). For example, Czaplinski's (1972) study analyzed Caldecott-winning books from 1940 to 1971 and discovered that males outnumbered females in both pictures and text.