APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Stories of illness and disability: Content analyses to determine whether children’s picture books have changed over the decades and what they tell us
- Judith Newman
The Pennsylvania State University, Abington College - Darby McGurk
The Pennsylvania State University, Abington College - Courtney Colkett-Harvey
The Pennsylvania State University, Abington College
Abstract
We will portray 1) trends over the last 50 years as to which specific illnesses or disabilities have been the focus of children’s picture books for each decade and 2) the results of a content analysis of a sampling of such books, especially as to how illness causality is represented.
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