Episode 19: What We Teach about Race and Gender -- with Anjali Adukia
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English - September 29, 2021 15:00 - 21 minutes - 24.5 MBSocial Sciences Science Education Courses economics inequality research Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Books shape how children learn about society and the world. Analyzing over 1,100 award-winning children’s books, Anjali Adukia talks about what artificial intelligence (AI) tools can tell us about how race and gender are depicted to children.
Paper:
“What We Teach About Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children’s Books” (by A. Adukia, A. Eble, E. Harrison, H.B. Runesha, T. Szasz)
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29123/w29123.pdf
Recommendation:
"Salt" by Nayyirah Waheed
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18585282-salt
Books shape how children learn about society and the world. Analyzing over 1,100 award-winning children’s books, Anjali Adukia talks about what artificial intelligence (AI) tools can tell us about how race and gender are depicted to children.
Paper:
“What We Teach About Race and Gender: Representation in Images and Text of Children’s Books” (by A. Adukia, A. Eble, E. Harrison, H.B. Runesha, T. Szasz)
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29123/w29123.pdf
Recommendation:
"Salt" by Nayyirah Waheed
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18585282-salt