{"id":815,"date":"2019-04-29T01:26:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T01:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=815"},"modified":"2025-05-15T23:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T23:05:25","slug":"malcolm-fleming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm Fleming"},"content":{"rendered":"\nDiversity in Children&#8217;s Literature <BR>\nThis presentation focuses on diversity in children\u2019s literature, which is critical because all children need to see themselves reflected in the literature they read. This literature also helps children appreciate individual differences. Researchers found that a majority of children\u2019s literature in school libraries did not reflect racial, religious, SES, gender, disabilities, or sexual identity diversity. Researchers concluded that representations of children from diverse populations in literature must be characterized in ways that are realistic and engaging. For this study I examined current diversity in children\u2019s literature to assess the range of diversity reflected. I went to three higher education libraries; Lane Community College, Northwest Christian University, and the University of Oregon. I examined their children\u2019s literature collections in the following diversity categories; disability, LGBTQ, family\/SES, and gender. I also examined racial diversity in each of the previous categories. I examined and evaluated 44 children\u2019s books that ranged from pre-k to high school reading levels. I found that LCC had the most current collection of children\u2019s literature in the four diversity categories. Fourteen of the 44 books addressed family and SES (e.g., divorce, domestic abuse, refugees, immigrant status, incarcerated parents, poverty, foster care). In the disability category the books primarily addressed physical disabilities. In summary, this presentation will stress the importance of exposing children of diverse populations, as well as societally mainstreamed children, to literature that will strengthen their awareness of themselves and others.   <BR>\nPSY 499, Capstone<BR>\nMary Ann Winter-Messiers<BR>\nSPS 101<BR>\n4 &#8211; 4:30 PM<BR>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1-q65zCVjS3cfRcFpXUPacGxYFZl7s014Z7SIzMD427E\/edit?usp=sharing\">Return to schedule<\/A>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diversity in Children&#8217;s Literature This presentation focuses on diversity in children\u2019s literature, which is critical because all children need to see themselves reflected in the literature they read. This literature also helps children appreciate individual differences. Researchers found that a majority of children\u2019s literature in school libraries did not reflect racial, religious, SES, gender, disabilities, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/?p=815\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Malcolm Fleming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[661,949,29,32,33],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2019","tag-capstone","tag-fleming-m","tag-psy","tag-psy-499","tag-winter-messiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aceday.bushnell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}