TY - JOUR AU - Belcher, E. Christina AU - Maich, Kimberly AU - Hardy, Monte PY - 2019/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Teachers as Zookeepers? How Picture Books Describe Classroom Management JF - Language and Literacy JA - L & L VL - 21 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.20360/langandlit29449 UR - https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/article/view/29449 SP - 1-20 AB - <p class="p2">Engaging the lens of classroom management, this research explores how teachers have been represented in children’s picture books as classroom managers. Picture books from the A-Zoo 7<span class="s2">th </span>Edition (2005) serve as a foundational data set to explore how the personification of teachers and the reality of the teaching experience are mirrored over time. Charteris’s heuristic of <em>epistemological shudders </em>(2014) —identifying a paradox which opens up possibilities for meaning making—was utilized alongside Krippendorff’s (1989) content analysis framework. Findings inform how the representation of teachers has portrayed a postmodern, deconstructive worldview regarding classroom management and professional representation, inviting further study into society’s ongoing perceptions of the teacher.</p> ER -