Diverse Classroom Libraries

Adukia, A., Eble, A., Harrison, E., Runesha, H. B., & Szasz, T. (2023). What we teach about race and gender: Representation in images and text of children’s books. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138(4), 2225-2285. https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/138/4/2225/7247000 

Baum, F., MacDougall, C., & Smith, D. (2006). Participatory action research. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 60(10), 854.

Bishop, R. S. (1990). Mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors. Perspectives: Choosing and Using Books for the Classroom. https://scenicregional.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Mirrors-Windows-and-Sliding-Glass-Doors.pdf 

Brandts, L., Bosma, H., Simons, A.M., Groffen, D.A., & Akker, V. (2016). The socioeconomic roots of shame and perceptions of social inadequacy. MaRBLe Research Papers. https://openjournals.maastrichtuniversity.nl/Marble/article/view/318/262

Cornish, F., Breton, N., Moreno-Tabarez, U., Delgado, J., Rua, M., de-Graft Aikins, A., & Hodgetts, D. (2023). Participatory action research. Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 3(1), 34.

Crawford, S.C., (2016). More than a wheelchair in the background: A study of portrayals of disabilities in children’s picture books [Honors Theses]. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. https://scholar.utc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1056&context=honors-theses

Crisp, T., & Hiller, B. (2011). “Is this a boy or a girl?”: Rethinking sex-role representation in Caldecott Medal-winning picturebooks 1938–2011. Children’s Literature in Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-011-9128-1

de Pinho Correia Ibrahim, M. N. (2020). The multilingual picturebook in English language teaching: Linguistic and cultural identity. Children's Literature in English Language Education, 8(2), 12-38. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2732639 

Devenney, M. J. V., (2004). The social representations of disability: Fears, fantasies, and facts [Dissertation]. University of Leeds. https://disability-studies.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/library/devenney-PhD-Final-including-bibliography-.pdf 

Horton, Ashlee Hirsh. (2011). An evaluation of ethnic representation within three third grade basal reading series [Dissertation]. University of Memphis. https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/348

Isaacson, T. N. (2016). Romantically themed media and the development of children’s understanding of love [Thesis]. Boise State University. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/61763497.pdf

Kelley, J. E., & Darragh, J. J. (2011). Depictions and gaps: Portrayal of U.S. poverty in realistic fiction children’s picture books. Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts, 50(4). https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol50/iss4/5

McIntyre, A. (2007). Participatory action research. Sage publications.

Michigan Department of Education. (2022). How to establish a diverse classroom library. ERIC. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=How+to+establish+a+diverse+classroom+library&id=ED618753 

National Youth Leadership Network, & Kids As Self Advocates. (2006). Respectful disability language: Here’s what’s up! https://www.aucd.org/docs/add/sa_summits/Language%20Doc.pdf

Roethler, J. (1998). Reading in color: Children’s book illustrations and identity formation for Black children in the United States. African American Review, 32(1), 95–105. https://doi.org/10.2307/3042272

Singh, M. (1998). Gender issues in children’s literature. ERIC. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED424591.pdf

Tognoli, J., Pullen, J., & Lieber, J. (1994). The privilege of place: Domestic and work locations of characters in children's books. Children's Environments, 11(4), 272–280. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41514948?seq=1