scholarly journals Disrupting ableism: Strengths-based representations of disability in children’s picture books

2020 ◽  
pp. 146879842098175
Author(s):  
H Emily Hayden ◽  
Angela MT Prince
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Strength Based ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
High Incidence Disabilities

Children’s literature is a powerful influence on the social construction of perceptions and narratives, and it is critically important that all children see themselves represented in the books in their classrooms. However, strength-based views of characters with a disability are rare in children’s picture books, meaning that children with a disability may not see themselves reflected in the books on their classroom shelves. Even worse, books may reinforce limiting, ableist stereotypes and myths about people with disabilities and their lives. Representing characters with disabilities in strength-based ways in children’s literature, where “the person’s own abilities and strengths are explicitly considered [and] empowerment of the person has a high priority”, could educate able-bodied students about disability, promote attitudes of acceptance and strengthen perceptions of self-worth among students with disabilities as well as their typically-developing peers. We conducted a qualitative content analysis of 34 exemplar picture books featuring a main character with a disability. Low occurrence disabilities such as visual impairment were more frequently represented than high incidence disabilities such as a specific learning disability, but the main characters in our highest rated books modelled self-awareness, agency and acceptance. These books disrupted ableist myths about disability and provided the reader with tools to push back against both implicit and explicit stereotyping, teasing and bullying. By incorporating children’s picture books with strength-based representations of disability into research and teaching for primary classroom literacy instruction, we can reinforce valuable social emotional skills that foreground respect for the humanity and dignity of all students.

Visual Depictions of Religion in Children’s Picture Books

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don A. Wicks ◽  
Darin Freeburg ◽  
Douglas Goldsmith
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Children's Picture Books

How children are introduced to concepts of faith is a sensitive matter. One approach used by both religious and secular organizations is children’s literature, including children’s picture books. This paper offers an exploratory study of how religion and spirituality are depicted in such literature.La manière d’introduire les enfants au concept de la foi est un sujet délicat. Une approche utilisée par les organisations religieuses et non confessionnelles est la littérature jeunesse, y compris les livres d’images. Cette communication présente une étude exploratoire sur le traitement de la religion et de la spiritualité dans la littérature jeunesse. 

scholarly journals Touching Art: The Art Museum as a Picture Book, and the Picture Book as Art

2018 ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Perry Nodelman
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
Verbal Language ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
The Arts

Based on a keynote address delivered at the 2017 Child and the Book conference in Valencia on interdisciplinary links between children’s literature and the arts, this essay draws on its author’s experience first as a children’s literature scholar focused on picture books and then as a volunteer guide and docent for school tours in art museums. It explores how visits to art museums might be enriched by thinking about the art in them in the ways in which we think about the art in children’s picture books- as images illuminated by a context of nearby images and the verbal language they appear in connection with. After an exploration of common assumptions about how to look at art in museums and a consideration of the ways in which our knowledge of picture books might influence our interactions with that art, the essay also briefly considers how museum art might influence our understanding and appreciation of picture books.Key words: art, picture books, museums, galleries, context ResumenBasado en la conferencia plenaria pronunciada en 2017 en el congreso en Valencia The Child and the Book sobre vínculos interdisciplinares entre la literatura infantil y las artes, este artículo utiliza la experiencia del autor como guía voluntario y docente para visitas escolares a museos artísticos. Explora cómo las visitas a museos de arte pueden ser enriquecidas pensando acerca del arte que contienen de la manera en la que pensamos sobre el arte en los álbumes para niños y niñas – como imágenes iluminadas por un contexto de imágenes cercanas y por el lenguaje verbal que aparece en conexión con ellas. Tras una exploración de las asunciones habituales sobre cómo mirar el arte en los museos y una consideración sobre las maneras en las que nuestro conocimiento de los álbumes puede influir nuestras interacciones sobre este arte, el ensayo considera también brevemente cómo el arte de los museos puede influir nuestra comprensión y apreciación de los álbumes.Palabras clave: arte, álbumes, museos, galerías, contexto.   ResumBasat en la conferencia plenària pronunciada el 2017 al congrés a València The Child and the Book sobre vincles interdisciplinaris entre la literatura infantil i les arts, aquest article utilitza l’experiència de l’autor com a guia voluntari i com a docent per a visites escolars a museus artístics. Explora com les visites a museus d’art poden ser enriquides tot pensant sobre l’art que hi contenen de la manera en la que pensem sobre l’art en els àlbums per a infants – com a imatges il·luminades per un context d’imatges properes i pel llenguatge verbal que apareix en connexió amb elles. Després d’una exploració de les assumpcions habituals sobre com mirar l’art als museus i una consideració sobre les maneres en les quals el nostre coneixement dels àlbums pot influir les nostres interaccions sobre aquest art, l’assaig considera també breument com l’art dels museus pot influir la nostra comprensió i apreciació dels àlbums.Paraules clau: art, àlbums, museus, galeries, context.

scholarly journals DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES ON SCHOOL SEGREGATION ISSUES IN AMERICAN CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-334
Author(s):  
Ewa Klęczaj-Siara
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Picture Book ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Segregation ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
American Schools

Aim. School segregation is a common theme of children’s books on minority groups living in the United States. Although it is primarily associated with black-white racial divisions, currently it also concerns white-Latino or rich-poor disparities. The aim of this paper is to analyse children’s picture books featuring Latino and African American characters who participate in the struggle against school segregation. The authors of the books, being members of racial minorities themselves, offer differing perspectives on the problem. Although they criticise school segregation, they also focus on the white perspective and the reasons why integrating schools has always been hard to achieve. Methods. The study analyses the visual and verbal narratives of selected picture books using a variety of methods for examining this literary format. Among others, it applies the theory of picture book analysis by Martin Painter, William Moebius, Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott. Results. The article shows that despite the existing scholarship on race-related problems in American schools, children’s literature seems to be the medium which tries to explain the problem to youngsters being directly involved in the system of segregation. Conclusions. The results can be useful to educators who cope with the issue of racial diversity in American schools. They may consider using selected titles of children’s literature as teaching aids assisting students from minority groups in the process of self-development and empowerment.

scholarly journals Till ”vildingarnas” land: Barnboksförfattaren besöker förorten

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maj Asplund Carlsson ◽  
Johannes Lunneblad
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Post Colonial

Title: Where “the wild things” are: An author of children’s books on a visit to the suburbsAbstract:Few studies have been carried out on children’s literature from a post-colonial perspective. In this article, we look closer at four picture books recently published in Sweden with the purpose of giving children from urban areas patterns of identification. The aim of our study is to see how the ‘suburb’ is articulated as a multi-accented sign. Three themes are elaborated in our analysis, i.e. loneliness and alienation, drug abuse and misery as well as small business occurrence. We also discuss the consequences for children in early years of an encounter with a distorted or alienated view of suburban culture.

Analysis of Latino award winning children’s literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 507-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Gomm ◽  
Melissa Allen Heath ◽  
Pat Mora
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Latino Children ◽  
Emotional Needs ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
Children's Picture Books ◽  
Award Winning

In this article, we offer information about the specific challenges US Latino immigrant children face. We then determine which of these challenges are included in 72 award winning children’s picture books, specifically created for and/or about Latino children. Our analysis offers information to assist school-based mental health professionals, children’s librarians, educators, and parents in prescriptively selecting books that align with Latino children’s social emotional needs. Additionally, we analysed each book’s proportion of Spanish/English text and described the book’s targeted age level and Horn Book Guide rating. From our perspective, books containing colorful illustrations that include Latino children, realistic situations, familiar Spanish words and phrases, and true-to-life characters help Latino children engage and identify with these stories. Children’s book author Pat Mora also explains her perceptions of quality children’s literature. Although this article is specific to Latino children’s literature, implications are offered that generalize to other ethnic and cultural groups that are typically underrepresented in children’s literature.

scholarly journals American and Russian children’s literature at the beginning of the 21st century. The diversity of possibilities

Bibliosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
O. B. Bukhina
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Picture Books ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Sensitive Topics ◽  
Russian Children’S Literature

Comparing changes in publication policies, the influence of translated books, and an important role that women writers play now, author analyzed new tendencies in American and Russian children’s and teens’ literature. The author concludes that American picture books reflect the varieties of contemporary experiences, and the Russian ones thrive with poetry and non-fiction. The comparison of teens’ literature of both countries shows a lot of similarities; both encompass more sensitive topics, such as illness, death, suicide, drugs, psychological trauma, and bulling.

scholarly journals Patterns and Trends in Contemporary Canadian Verse-Novels for Young People

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Beverley A. Brenna ◽  
Yina Liu ◽  
Shuwen Sun
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Reluctant Readers ◽  
Verse Novel

This qualitative content analysis identified patterns and trends in a contemporary set of Canadian verse-novels for young people. Twenty-two books were located in our search for titles published between 1995 and 2016, and many of these emerged as award-winners in various contexts including the Governor General’s Award for children’s literature (text). Dresang’s notion of Radical Change, adapted for this interrogation, illuminated particular elements of these societal artifacts worthy of notice. While studies have occurred regarding textual forms or formats and reader characteristics, specific work with the verse-novel and its use with struggling and reluctant readers is limited, with professional articles appearing in place of research-oriented discussions. Scrutiny of available verse-novels is important as it opens a door for explorations of these resources with participants in classroom settings.  

scholarly journals Gender Issues in Children’s Literature: An Analysis of Fairytales

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahira Akbar ◽  
Ra,ana Malik ◽  
Farooq E Azam
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Behavioral Traits ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Grass Root Level

This paper intends to explore the reasons of gender discrimination indifferent segments of Pakistani society at grass root level. This study isbased on qualitative content analysis of children’s literature from whichthe most popular corpse of ten English fairytales purposively. Activitiesof different characters along with their social were selected andeconomic status, behavioral traits, gendered messages and thematic roleswere analyzed by using coding frame for manifest and stimulus clues forlatent information. This content analysis research indicates that genderdifference is an integral part of the fairy tales which shows female genderinferior to male. A detailed qualitative analysis of these selectedfairytales cited that gender issues start from titles and prevail throughoutthe fairytales. Males had proper names but girls were known with theirattributive names in the titles. The study suggests a need for drasticchange behaviorally, psychologically and materially (in our children’sliterature and particularly in fairytales) to keep pace with the 21st century,which demands us to be more creative, active and innovative withscientific approach instead of becoming an escapist.

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