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Jennifer Lindsay – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2024
The underrepresentation of women and girls in children's picture books and the use of gender stereotypes persists, as seen in a sample of 335 books published between 2010 and 2020. Previous research showed a significant lack of female representation in children's picture books and stereotyped presentation. A pilot study was conducted to establish…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Disproportionate Representation, Females, Content Analysis
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Woods, Claire A. – English Education, 1986
Discusses the concepts of play and imagination and how these shape personal development and the knowledge gained through experience with reading and writing. (SRT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum
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Gambell, Trevor J. – English Quarterly, 1986
Provides a background of response theory, two Canadian perspectives on response theory, a description of transactional response theory and response-centered curriculum, a discussion of the concepts of participant and spectator roles in literature and of the idea of narration and storying as literature, and a discussion of analysis and criticism.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Literary Criticism