Childrens Literature and the Politics of Equality

ISBN-13: 9781853464256 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 192 str.

Pat Pinsent

Opis

This work aims to help teachers ensure that children develop an awareness of the prejudice expressed in books and other reading material they encounter. It reviews recent work which aims to counter prejudice in children's literature, and traces the historical and theoretical basis of this work. It also discusses the equality issues and stereotyping in a 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 to develop an awareness on bias, so that they are less likely to adopt the prejudices consciously or subconsciously expressed by the authors they experience.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Prejudice in Children’s Books; Chapter 2 Children and Literature; Chapter 3 Have the ‘Classics’ Had Their Day?; Chapter 4 Prejuduce and Children’s Popular Fiction; Chapter 5 Anti-Sexist and Emancipatory Books; Chapter 6 ‘Race’ and Ethnic Identity; Chapter 7 Literature, Language and Culture; Chapter 8 Literature and Society: Age and Disability; Chapter 9 Equality and Information Books; Chapter 10 Literature, Equality, and the Classroom;

O autorze

Pat Pinsent is a principal lecturer in English at Roehampton.