Innocent Victims, Fighter Cells, and White Uncles: A Discourse Analysis of Children’s Books about AIDS |
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| Authors: | Megan Blumenreich Marjorie Siegel |
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| Abstract: | In this article, we examine a set of 26 children’s books on HIV/AIDS published between 1989–1999 to identify the ways in which
these texts construct HIV/AIDS and people living with HIV/AIDS. We explore how this marginalized group is depicted in these
books, and how well-meaning teachers may in fact be reproducing dominant discourses about HIV/AIDS in their curricula. In
this article we focus, in particular, on how the discourses connected to public health, medicine, and secrecy (as a discourse
across many institutions) are filtered to children and take part in constructing their beliefs and assumptions about HIV/AIDS.
We illustrate our argument with examples from the books and show why teachers need to know how to analyze texts they select
for their curricula so as to read books about HIV/AIDS critically in the classroom.
Megan Blumenreich is Assistant Professor of Childhood Education at The City College of New York, City University of New York.
Her research interests focus on urban schooling, poststructuralist approaches to qualitative research, and teacher education.
She is the coauthor of The Power of Questions: A Guide to Teacher and Student Research (Heineman, 2005).
Marjorie Siegel is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia
University. Her research interests include transmediation and multimodality in literacy education, content area literacies,
and literacies and technologies. She is the coauthor of Reading Counts: Expanding the role of reading in mathematics classrooms (Teachers College, 2000).
M. Himley, “Teaching the rhetoric of AIDS: Blurring the boundaries.” |
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| Keywords: | AIDS children’ s Books discourses curriculum |
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