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Direct linkCrossley, Jared S.; Parsons, Linda T. – Journal of Children's Literature, 2022
Rudine Sims Bishop (1990) emphasized that children need to see themselves as well as others reflected in the books available to them. For children who are deaf, images of themselves that are "distorted or laughable or inaccurate" (Bishop, 1997) negatively impact their self-esteem and reinforce their marginalized status. The portrayals of…
Descriptors: Deafness, Middle School Students, Diversity, Content Analysis
Parsons, Linda T.; Mikita, Clara – Journal of Children's Literature, 2019
The current state of homelessness in the United States, the barriers and challenges students who are homeless face, and the prevailing neoliberal construction of homelessness provide the situational context for this study and the discourse within which this analysis of nine children's novels was written. The authors initiated this study with the…
Descriptors: Barriers, Homeless People, Neoliberalism, Discourse Analysis
Parsons, Linda T. – Journal of Children's Literature, 2016
How might we understand the experiences of the millions of displaced children around the world on a personal rather than impersonal level? How might we understand in a way that is immediate rather than abstract? The experiences of displaced child characters in global children's literature mirror the experiences of children in our embodied world,…
Descriptors: Role, Story Telling, Children, Childrens Literature
