Picturebooks: A Looking Glass for Examing Gender With Children

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dc.contributor.authorDeichmann, Ceilidh
dc.contributor.supervisorPantaleo, Sylvia
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-27T17:41:55Z
dc.date.available2015-07-27T17:41:55Z
dc.date.copyright2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015-07-27
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instructionen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Education M.Ed.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis project focuses on the need for raising gender awareness in primary classrooms through critical literacy in order to counteract the long-term effects of repeated gender bias or stereotypical messages. In the literature review I consider gender, feminist and pedagogical theories; discuss the importance of a poststructuralist/dialogic approach to deconstruct gender bias and stereotypes encountered in primary classrooms; and reviews four decades of research that examine the gendered nature of Caldecott Award winning picturebooks. I created a tool, A Guide to Expose Gendered Messages in Picturebooks, to help teachers discover gendered messages in picturebooks and to prepare teachers for addressing gender issues with children in primary classrooms. Following a description of the tool is the analyses of three Canadian picturebooks, that have been recognised as Governor General Award finalists in the category of Children’s Literature – Illustrations, for gendered messages: Julia, Child (Maclear & Morstad, 2014), Miss Mousie’s Blind Date (Beiser & Berman, 2012) and Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin (Uegaki & Leng, 2014). The analyses of the gendered messages in the three picturebooks provide examples for how teachers can guide classroom discussions towards discovering gender stereotypes and gender bias with children. Finally, in the reflection section I discuss how theories, concepts and personal experiences contributed to the production of this resource.  en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6391
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectgenderen_US
dc.subjectchildrenen_US
dc.subjectpicturebooken_US
dc.subjectcritical literacyen_US
dc.subjectCaldecott Awarden_US
dc.subjectGovernor General's Awarden_US
dc.subjectprimaryen_US
dc.subjectgender awarenessen_US
dc.subjectgender biasen_US
dc.subjectgender stereotypesen_US
dc.subjectfeminismen_US
dc.subjectmasculinitiesen_US
dc.subjectdialogic talken_US
dc.subjectteachersen_US
dc.titlePicturebooks: A Looking Glass for Examing Gender With Childrenen_US
dc.typeprojecten_US

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