Research Article | Open Access
Children’s Literature: Shaping the vision of Disability.
Swermon Swer , Dr. Kumar Gautam Anand
Pages: 3193-3199
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to describe how unbiased stories depicting children with disabilities are used in elementary schools to describe multicultural perspectives. A multicultural approach will benefit the teaching of social acceptance as opposed to separating people into groups. There are many books for children which wins sadly, their stories are not true to life and do not really provide a sense of what it is like to have a disability. The omission of facts in popular books,and the promotion of stereotypes about individuals with disabilities that have their roots in many culture,unintended result of people dehumanizing involve
Keywords
disability, books for children, teaching, popular culture.