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ERIC Number: EJ090437
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1973
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Children's Heroes Vis-A-Vis Textbook Heroes
Zimmerman, Roger
Negro Educational Review, 24, 3 & 4, 157-162, Jul-Oct 73
Questionnaires were administered in inner city sixth grade classrooms and sixth grade classrooms in two smaller towns in southern Minnesota; results indicated that most children select their heroes from among those people with whom they live on a day to day basis. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Books, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Literature, Elementary School Students, Racial Differences, Role Models, Rural Urban Differences, Social Studies, Surveys, Textbook Research
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Identifiers: Minnesota