Childrens Literature and the Politics of Equality

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Children's Literature and the Politics of Equality will help teachers ensure that children develop an awareness of the prejudice expressed in books and other reading material they encounter. "Political correctness" in this area is easily caricatured, yet more needs to be done to ensure that children's books deal fairly with bias in relation to gender, race, language, disability, and age. The author reviews recent work that aims to counter prejudice in children's literature, tracing its historical and theoretical ...
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Children's Literature and the Politics of Equality will help teachers ensure that children develop an awareness of the prejudice expressed in books and other reading material they encounter. "Political correctness" in this area is easily caricatured, yet more needs to be done to ensure that children's books deal fairly with bias in relation to gender, race, language, disability, and age. The author reviews recent work that aims to counter prejudice in children's literature, tracing its historical and theoretical basis. She then discusses equality issues and stereotyping in a wide range of books - old and new, popular and "classic." The focus throughout the text is on the practical ways in which teachers and librarians can help children develop an awareness of bias, so that they are less likely to adopt the prejudices consciously or subconsciously expressed by the authors whose works they experience.
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  • ISBN-13: 9781853464256
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 6/26/1997
  • Series: Roehampton Teaching Studies Ser.
  • Pages: 1925
  • Product dimensions: 0.45 (w) x 6.00 (h) x 9.00 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
1 Prejudice in Children's Books 5
2 Children and Literature 19
3 Have the 'Classics' Had Their Day? 38
4 Prejudice and Children's Popular Fiction 57
5 Anti-Sexist and Emancipatory Books 75
6 'Race' and Ethnic Identity 91
7 Literature, Language and Culture 109
8 Literature and Society: Age and Disability 123
9 Equality and Information Books 147
10 Literature, Equality and the Classroom 158
Bibliography 180
Index of Authors 183
Index of Subjects 187
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