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. Professors are overwhelmingly white and male, tending to be elderly scientists who fall into three stereotypes: the vehicle to explain scientific facts,...

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Main Author:	Terras, Melissa M. (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:	Cambridge elements. Elements in publishing and book culture.
Subjects:	Children's literature > History and criticism. College teachers in literature. Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature. Children's literature > Publishing. Stéréotypes dans la littérature. Children's literature Children's literature > Publishing College teachers in literature Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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