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Characters with disabilities in contemporary children's novels: Portraits of three authors in a frame of Canadian texts
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This qualitative study explored influences on three Canadian authors who present characters with disabilities in children’s fiction. Portraits of these authors are framed by a discussion of contemporary Canadian children’s novels, offering curriculum ideas within the framework of critical...
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Spring 2023
This study explored the use of children’s literature in English-Chinese bilingual education in the Canadian context. The purpose was to examine the types of children’s literature that are used in bilingual education, the roles that children’s literature plays in students’ bilingual and biliteracy...
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Fall 2009
When European children’s literature is adapted to North American film, parts of the stories are removed and changed in the hopes of producing something that will be considered acceptable in the target culture. Much of what is educational and cultural in the stories to begin with is removed...
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A Critical Bond: Cultural Transmission and Nation-Building in Métis and Chicana/o Picture Books
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It was not until the later part of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century that Métis and Chicana/o authors began to create picture books as a counter-literary response to the discrimination that they faced as mixed-race peoples. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the...
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"Just Breathing Isn't Living": Disability and Constructions of Normalcy in Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature
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This study seeks to demonstrate the ways in which disability is negatively and stereotypically presented in classic children’s literature and how it is used to prescribe constructions of normalcy. Although disability studies have become an increasingly popular avenue for critical study, one...