Multiracial Children in Child Development Textbooks

Autor/in	Wardle, Francis
Titel	Multiracial Children in Child Development Textbooks
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Education Journal, 35 (2007) 3, S.253-259 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1082-3301
DOI	10.1007/s10643-007-0157-8
Schlagwörter	Textbooks; Minority Group Children; Child Psychology; Multiracial Persons; Child Development; Cultural Pluralism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Kinderpsychologie; Mischling; Kindesentwicklung; Kulturpluralismus
Abstract	The 2000 US census was the first to allow respondents to check more than one race/ethnic response for their identity. About 6.8 million Americans did so, and a disproportionate percentage of them were children under age 18 years old. The purpose of this article is to examine the extent to which this change is reflected in contemporary child psychology textbooks. Twelve books were examined to determine whether they covered multiracial and multiethnic children. Results of this study showed that only two of these books addressed issues related to the healthy development of multiracial/multiethnic children in any detail; and, while several used terms such as "biracial" and "bicultural", these terms were always used to describe single-race minority children living in a majority context. The discussion section covers possible reasons for this omission. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10