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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Children's literature"”.
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Racial prejudice toward Asian Americans in U.S. children's literature.
This study examined racial prejudice in American children's books toward Asian Americans. The sample consisted of contemporary and historical fiction books for children in two age groups: preschool through grade three and grades four through six, which are listed under Asian American fiction …
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The representation of Asian Americans in children's literature : a content analysis of Texas reading basals.
Children's literature serves as mirrors and windows for the students we teach today. Through literature, children should be able to see their own reflections as well as the world around them. Yet despite their long history in the United States, Asian Americans have not always been represented in …
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Lessons from the Kremlin : folklore and children's literature in the socialization of Soviet children, 1932-1945
… cultural production—art, music, architecture and literature. In the realm of children’s writing, socialist realism had particularly interesting effects on the themes and formulas that were utilized by authors. Though once thought to represent the tsarist and peasant past, the Party encouraged the …
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"They're trying to trick us!": Making sense of anti-oppressive children's literature in the elementary school classroom
This study examines how children make sense of “anti-oppressive” children’s literature in the classroom, specifically, books that integrate and promote positive portrayals of gender non-conformity and sexual diversity. Through a feminist poststructural lens, I conducted ethnographic observations …
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The thief and the beauty queen
… story distinguishes itself from what critics of children's literature have called "problem novels" by presenting complex themes without oversimplification. This thesis is an excerpt from my larger novel, The Thief and the Beauty Queen. These 99 pages establish Landon's desire to leave his …
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Recovering children’s reading: “Queer Treasures” of the Children’s Collection in Cork Public Library, 1922–1939
… concerned with advancing our knowledge of Irish children’s reading in the first two decades of the independence era. It establishes that the type of reading material in circulation by the public library of the Irish Free State’s second-largest city was substantially in conflict with the …