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Direct linkMegan Fulcher; Kingsley Schroeder; Jennifer Rabung – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2024
This study was designed to test how well a commercial intervention with a highly feminized role model (Barbie) worked to improve pre-adolescent girls' interest and performance in computer science. Concurrently, this study examined how overtly feminist texts and images of real women would impact girls compared to the traditional highly feminized…
Descriptors: Role Models, Toys, Early Adolescents, Females
Download full textTadayuki Suzuki; Darryn Diuguid; Barbara A. Ward – Multicultural Education, 2023
Every year, the Rainbow Round Table Committee from the American Library Association (ALA) selects quality lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual+ (LGBTQIA+) books for the ALA's Rainbow Book List. The committee evaluated approximately 450 titles published in the United States and Canada between July 1, 2020,…
Descriptors: Libraries, National Organizations, Reading Lists, Sexual Identity
Zambo, Debby M. – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2006
Students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder are physically active and impulsive often to the point of being difficult to contain. Fortunately, advances in research and practice are helping unravel some of the mysteries of ADHD and with this information comes an imperative to inform individuals with ADHD about their disability.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Picture Books, Childrens Literature
Peer reviewedAshby, Marylee Stull; Wittmaier, Bruce C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
Twenty-nine fourth grade girls were read stories with women either in traditional roles or nontraditional roles. Girls who heard nontraditional stories rated traditionally male jobs and characteristics as appropriate for females more than girls who heard traditional stories. Results are discussed in terms of sexual bias and girls' aspirations.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Childrens Literature, Females, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedHarms, Jeanne McLain; Lettow, Lucille J. – Social Education, 1997
Asserts that using children's literature to present life stories can reinforce young children's understanding of life span and help them better understand how goals formed in childhood may help determine an individual's future. Briefly reviews and recommends 15 children's books focused on life stories and decision making. (MJP)
Descriptors: Biographies, Childrens Literature, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education
