Whitewashing Nature: Sanitized Depictions of Biology in Children's Books and Parent-Child Conversation

Autor/inn/en	Shtulman, Andrew; Villalobos, Andrea; Ziel, Devin
Titel	Whitewashing Nature: Sanitized Depictions of Biology in Children's Books and Parent-Child Conversation
Quelle	In: Child Development, 92 (2021) 6, S.2356-2374 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Shtulman, Andrew)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13571
Schlagwörter	Biology; Childrens Literature; Books; Natural Resources; Concept Formation; Scientific Concepts; Parent Role; Interpersonal Communication; Parent Child Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Biologie; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Natural Ressource; Natürliche Ressource; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Parental role; Elternrolle; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	The biological world includes many negatively valenced activities, like predation, parasitism, and disease. Do children's books cover these activities? And how do parents discuss them with their children? In a content analysis of children's nature books (Study 1), we found that negatively valenced concepts were rarely depicted across genres and reading levels. When parents encountered negative information in books (Studies 2-3), they did not omit it but rather elaborated on it, adding their own comments and questions, and their children (ages 3-11) were more likely to remember the negative information but less likely to generalize that information beyond the animal in the book. These findings suggest that early input relevant to biological competition may hamper children's developing understanding of ecology and evolution. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01