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Peer reviewedChafel, Judith A.; Fitzgibbons, Shirley; Cutter, Lisa; Burke-Weiner, Kimberly – Early Child Development and Care, 1997
Used content analysis to examine the depiction of poverty in 18 books for young children. Book content was coded using nine categories (occupation, income, employment, unemployment, race, ethnicity, geographic locale, education, and family structure). Found that all nine categories appeared in the books and that although some findings diverged…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classification, Content Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged
