Published: 2021-10-27

Discourses of disability in children’s literature

Emilia Śmiechowska-Petrovskij
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Articles and essays
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2021.1.07

Abstract

Disability and children with disabilities are rarely included in children’s literature. Depicting characters with special needs is important because of the process of social inclusion – for children without dysfunctions and for those with some problems in psychophysical functioning. But there are often a lot of stereotypes in literary texts. The aim of this paper is to show cultural textswhich present disability and join ethical and aesthetical values at the same playing field. 

 

Keywords:

children literature, disability, inclusion, blind people, intellectual disabled, books for children

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Śmiechowska-Petrovskij, E. (2021). Discourses of disability in children’s literature. Pedagogical Forum, 11(1), 115–129. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2021.1.07

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