Children's Books that Promote Understanding of Difference, Diversity and Disability

Gilmore, Linda; Howard, Glenn

doi:10.1017/jgc.2016.26

Cited by 21 publications

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“…from the present results that storybook intervention changed positively children's acceptance and awareness of peers with disability. These findings support the view that books can be a powerful tool for increasing awareness, knowledge, understanding and acceptance of oneself and others, including those with differences and disabilities (Gilmore & Howard, 2016). Moreover, recent studies suggested that while children are guided to engage in the story world, they may experience changes in attitudes (Adomat, 2012;Law et al, 2017;Wright, Diener, & Kemp, 2013).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 78%

Effects of a Storytelling Program with Drama Techniques to Understand and Accept Intellectual Disability in Students 6 - 7 Years Old. A Pilot Study

Giagazoglou¹,

Papadaniil²

2018

APE

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A very crucial issue in special education, as well as in education in general, is the integration itself in the educational system. Although integration oriented schools offer a wide range of opportunities for social integration, incidents of social rejection cannot always be eradicated. Given that, the knowledge and understanding of disability creates a tendency for positive attitudes toward it, the evaluation and timely implementation of specially designed awareness interventions is mandatory and it should take place to help children with and without disabilities coexist harmonically in and out of school. This study aims at determining the effect of a 12 teaching hours intervention program on the potential change in attitudes toward disability of students in the first grade of primary school. The intervention program consisted of reading and theatrical play of a story tale referring to a small turtle born with Down syndrome. The results showed a significant positive effect on the understanding and the acceptance of intellectual disability.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 78%

Effects of a Storytelling Program with Drama Techniques to Understand and Accept Intellectual Disability in Students 6 - 7 Years Old. A Pilot Study

Giagazoglou¹,

Papadaniil²

2018

APE

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“…In the difficult path toward interculturality and inclusion, different authors have recognized the great power of literature (Gilmore & Howard, ; Kim, Wee, & Lee, ; Monoyiou & Symeonidou, ; Wang, ; Yulita, ). According to Martens et al.…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the difficult path toward interculturality and inclusion, different authors have recognized the great power of literature (Gilmore & Howard, 2016;Kim, Wee, & Lee, 2016;Monoyiou & Symeonidou, 2016;Wang, 2014;Yulita, 2017). According to Martens et al (2015), through reading literary texts, students acquire the necessary skills to learn how to respect, accept, and appreciate diversity as something positive for the collective development of the group.…”

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confidence: 99%

Values and Intercultural Experiences Through Picture Books

Tomé‐Fernández¹,

Fernández²,

Ruiz‐Martín³

2019

The Reading Teacher

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The authors searched for picture books that are useful for intercultural education and for discovering students’ perceptions about the values and intercultural experiences conveyed through the books. To do so, the authors selected two books by following established criteria and analyzed students’ responses through semistructured interviews. The data were obtained after reading the books aloud to 30 fifth‐grade students in a school located in the south of Spain and reflecting on the books’ contents. As a main conclusion, the authors found that students’ answers revealed the presence of some positive values, such as helpfulness, friendship, and empathy, through questions about the experiences of characters in the books. Thus, prejudices were dismantled and positive intercultural experiences in school were fostered.

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“…Gilmore and Howard [16] examined children's books in terms of supporting of diversity and disability. As a result of the research, 50 children's books are proposed to guide children from different ages and to develop respect and empathy for differences in children.…”

Section: Verbal Expression Of Happiness Reflection Of Happiness In Bementioning

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An analysis of values in children’s picture books in Turkish for 5-6 year-old children

Gül

Atay

2018

SHS Web Conf.

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This study aims to examine the values of wisdom, tolerance, benevolence, happiness, courtesy, respect, love and responsibility in the children’s books published in the years between 2000 and 2007 and in 2014 written in Turkish for 5-6 year old children. It is designed in content analysis pattern of qualitative research. A descriptive model of quantitative research methods was used to determine the frequency of values in picture books. The sample of the study consists of 40 children’s picture books which are translated into Turkish and written in Turkish for the 5-6 age group determined by the criterion sampling strategy. The researcher developed a checklist as a data collection tool which is values checklist. As a result of the research, there are 46.80% values in the children’s picture books published between 2000 and 2007; 53.20% values published in 2014, in analyzed picture books. It is found that children’s picture books, those translated into Turkish and those written in Turkish differ in terms of inclusion of values. Regarding results of the study, it is necessary to give more importance to the value of wisdom and tolerance in the children’s picture books and to transfer the values through positive examples toward proper behavior.

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Children's Books that Promote Understanding of Difference, Diversity and Disability

Cited by 21 publications

References 29 publications

Effects of a Storytelling Program with Drama Techniques to Understand and Accept Intellectual Disability in Students 6 - 7 Years Old. A Pilot Study

Effects of a Storytelling Program with Drama Techniques to Understand and Accept Intellectual Disability in Students 6 - 7 Years Old. A Pilot Study

Values and Intercultural Experiences Through Picture Books

An analysis of values in children’s picture books in Turkish for 5-6 year-old children

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