Picture-book professors : academia and children's literature /

How is academia portrayed in children's literature? This Element ambitiously surveys fictional professors in texts marketed towards children, who are overwhelmingly white and male, tending to be elderly scientists. Professors fall into three stereotypes: the vehicle to explain scientific facts,...

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Main Author:	Terras, Melissa M. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:	Cambridge elements.
Subjects:	Children's literature > History and criticism. College teachers in literature. Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature. Children's literature > Publishing.