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Fillmer, H. Thompson – 1981
Students from grades one through five participated in a study to investigate whether elementary school children stereotype older people and, more specifically, whether they stereotype older people by sex. Photographs of a young woman, a young man, an old woman, and an old man were shown to the subjects, who were then asked to select from each of…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Elementary Education
Fillmer, H. Thompson; Meadows, Rita E. – 1984
A study investigated the depiction of older characters in basal reader series from 1975 to 1983. A checklist was used to collect data concerning the treatment of older people in the stories and pictures of the following series: (1) Macmillan and Company (1975), (2) Allyn and Bacon (1978), (3) Scott Foresman (1978), Ginn and Company (1982), and (5)…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, Basal Reading, Characterization, Comparative Analysis
