1st Edition
Reading into Racism Bias in Children's Literature and Learning Materials
By Gillian Klein
Copyright 1985
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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Published in the year 1985, Reading into Racism is a valuable contribution to the field of Education.
Chapter 1 What is a biased book? Recognition and responses; Chapter 2 Negative bias—does it matter?; Chapter 3 Oh, but you'redifferent; Chapter 4 Issues in fiction; Chapter 5 Issues in World Studies; Chapter 6 Bias in materials in other areas of the curriculum; Chapter 7 The cumulative and the concealed: curriculum implications; Chapter 8 Strategies for combat I: sanitize or sensitize?; Chapter 9 Strategies for combat II: censorship or selection?; Chapter 10 Conclusions: The watershed; Bibliography; Further reading; List of organizationsIndex;Subject index;
Biography
Gillian Klein
`... a useful study for all teachers ... Even readers familiar with much of the recent analyses of bias in print will find this succinct analysis helpful as a guide to self-scrutiny and the careful selection of all forms of teaching materials ... Gillian Klein writes engagingly yet probes deeply. - Times Education Supplement