This article uses children's literature as data. They looked for gender biases in many contemporary pieces of literature, and conducted examinations as to how children (in preschool through first grade) viewed ceretain occupations and their typical gender.
The use of a pretest and posttest (post indicates after reading certain classroom reading materials) assisted in guaging the children's response to the literature. They begin the section with a recap of the data and how it was collected, reitterating terminology that would be used throughout. There is a chart that the section refers to as a vidual aid, and the organization of the analysis follows the flow of the chart, making it easy to understand. The themes are that these children are impacted by positive gender literature.
It shows how fast children learn, and how moldable they are. This reitterates my point that we have to be overly cautious, because they pick up on everything we say and do.
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