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Bias starts early – most books in childcare centres have white, middle-class heroes

  • Written by Helen Joanne Adam, Lecturer in Literacy Education and Children's Literature, Edith Cowan University
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Only 18% of books available in four Australian childcare centres include non-white characters. Animal characters make up around half the books available, with the animals largely leading lives, and adhering to values, of middle-class Caucasians.

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