Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
This research uses a qualitative approach to studying Critical Media Literacy (CML) with young girls by collaboratively analyzing Disney animated films with young girls age seven to eleven. The Ontario Curriculum in Canada has recently introduced CML as a new implementation to aid children in becoming active agents in interpreting media images. Using Disney as an educational tool, two focus groups were used in order for the girls in this study to analyse ideologies present in Disney animated films for the purposes of opening up dialogue surrounding CML and Disney female characters. This paper is based on a larger graduate project which I conducted at Brock University, and focuses only on one topic of powerful Disney female characters.
Michelle Garofalo (Sun,) studied this question.