This article explores how Indigenous Canadian children's literature might challenge adult and child readers to consider different meanings and worldviews of the environment as a land-based value system. As three teacher educators from elementary and university classrooms, we use reader-response theory to explore a collection of rich alternative…

This report of a study of Canadian literature in Canada's secondary schools is divided into four major sections. The first section describes the collection, processing, and analysis of information for the study. A four page survey was mailed to the chairpersons of English departments in 20 percent of Canada's public and Catholic secondary schools.…

Presents findings from a children's literature survey that was distributed to elementary school teachers and teacher-librarians in Ontario. Focuses on issues regarding the selection of children's literature and Canadian children's literature. Concludes that the information from the survey underscores the need for the thoughtful selection and…

In this article, I have presented findings from survey data to describe elementary teachers' and teacher-librarians' use of various genres of children's literature and their use of children's literature in specific curriculum areas. Data analysis revealed that teachers and teacher-librarians most frequently used the genres of non-fiction,…

This report provides a summary of the Book Exposure Project, which took the form of an exploratory study conducted in an area of north Toronto. Free books were included with a questionnaire designed to gather information about the following topics: the recipients' social and economic characteristics, their television viewing and radio listening…

Although students did not recognize Canadian poetry to any important extent, those students who made any differentiation between poems favored the Canadian poems. (DD)

Explores third graders' responses to the question "What's Canadian about Canadian Children's Literature?" Describes 6 picture books and summarizes students' responses to each. Finds students mentioned geographical aspects as characteristic of Canadian literature, and they felt Canadian children's literature should reflect Canadian "experiences."…

A study was conducted to identify the major areas of investigation in recent Canadian adult education literature. During the study, questionnaires were distributed to 216 adult educators located at 32 postsecondary educational institutions throughout Canada. Materials including 556 articles, books, reports, and proceedings papers were identified.…