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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"children’s literature"”.
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Reading queer subtexts in children’s literature
… I will show how these assumptions affect the literature published and made available to young readers, and how, often, overtly queer texts are not available for young readers. Such omissions leave young readers, especially those with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgendered (LGBT) …
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Anthropomorphism and social issues in selected Namibian children’s literature
… the use of anthropomorphism in selected Namibian children’s literature texts. The texts that formed part of the analysis were obtained from the anthology, The Stolen Water and Other Stories: Traditional Tales from Namibia (1993) retold by Jennifer Davis, and Mbinda (1998) by Izona Bock. The …
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Spectres of Childhood: Spectrality and Hauntology in Children’s Literature
… produced in the wake of the “spectral turn” to children’s literature. It utilises ghosts and haunting as a deconstructive methodology, as has been done broadly across the humanities and social sciences, to question if the presentation of childhood may be more hauntological than ontological in …
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The impact of children’s literature and discussion on attitudes toward disability
<p>This study examines the impact of reading children’s literature that contains a positive and realistic portrayal of a character with a learning disability on the attitudes of students without disabilities toward their peers with disabilities. Children completed the Attitude Toward Disabled …
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Dramatic response to children’s literature in an early childhood classroom setting
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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Dark Doubles and Dual Audience: What Uncanny Doppelgangers in Children’s Literature Teach Readers
… horror, which many consider unsuitable to young children. Accordingly, research on uncanny doppelgangers in literature focuses on adult fiction. Studies on the motif’s use in children’s stories mostly turn to “logical” doppelgangers, namely identical twins. Although research has been conducted on …
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The Therapeutic Benefits of Children’s Literature: Responding Through Making Art and Writing Stories
<p>This study explores the use of a children's book followed by the application of the Draw A Story (DAS) art therapy assessment tool by Rawley Silver (1988). The study takes place in three elementary school classrooms located in the greater Bay Area region. Previous literature addresses the …
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An Experimental Investigation of the Effect on Interest of Reading Children’s Literature to Sixth Grade Students in Aberdeen, Washington
To determine the effect of a teacher's reading literature upon the interest in reading books among sixth grade students, one group (experimental) participated in a twenty-eight week program of scheduled daily time during which they listened to literature read by their teacher. A second group …
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An examination of award-winning Canadian children’s literature from 1982 to 1992 for evidence of gender equality in presentations of male and female characters
… in award-winning English language Canadian children's literature for evidence of gender equality. The sample consisted of seventy-eight books that had been winners or runners-up of national awards between 1982 and 1992. Qualitative and quantitative methods of content analysis were used to …
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Culture and identity in Scottish children's fiction
British Children’s Literature has a long and distinguished history. In fact it could be argued that in the late seventeenth and increasingly in the eighteenth century, Britain took the lead in developing a new kind of literature especially designed for children. The Puritans were the first to …
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Posthumanist Children: Diffracted Readings and Entangled Beings
… posthumanist and new materialist theory, and children’s literature and media. Specifically, this thesis applies Donna Haraway’s diffractive (rather than reflective) approach to understanding theoretical concepts and Karen Barad’s agential realist onto-epistemological framework to the figure of …
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New directions in the rhizome of children's literature and children's culture: a case study in transmedia storytelling
… constitutes a “text” in twenty-first century children’s literature and children’s culture. Beginning with John Newbery’s A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744), through the Golden Age of Children’s Literature—that of the 1860s to 1900—and as a result of the shift to a children’s culture in the …
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Black aesthetics in children's literature
… is to show that although many African American children’s books have been used as “race texts” to give children insight into race relations of the past, many are important in that they preserve the Black dialect and encourage child activism and social change. Black aesthetics are most beneficial …
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Tensions between didacticism, entertainment and translatorial practices: deletion and omission in the Arabic translations of Harry Potter
… fantasy series in the context of translation of children’s literature from English into Arabic; from 2002 this series was translated into Arabic by an Egyptian publishing company specialising in children’s literature. This area is still relatively unexplored in Arabic and in need of further …
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Does Using Children's Literature and Social Stories Help Students With Autism to Decrease Inappropriate Behaviors?
… in studentswith autism can be decreased through children’s literature and Social Stories that address the behaviors. The research question guiding this study was, “Does using children’s literature and Social Stories help students with autism to decrease inappropriate behaviors?”The study’s …
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Literature for girls and the preadolescent novel: a historical analysis and recommendations for challenging the status quo
<p>Children’s literature has long been an influential historical, social and cultural discursive site of gender identity and gender appropriate behavior. Currently, there is great deal of research and analysis of children’s literature and young adult fiction, examining literature’s role in …
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Judging a Book by Its Cover: An Evaluation Tool for the Evaluation, Selection and Inclusion of Multicultural Children's Literature in the Elementary Classroom
… through a lack of accurate and authentic literature in the classroom. The portrayal of our diverse society is limited in the elementary curriculum due to the lack of knowledge and access of multicultural literature by elementary teachers.</p> <p>This study is an extensive literature review …
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Beyond the Monomyth: Jung and the Children's Book in the Adult Imagination
Abstract: ‘Beyond the Monomyth: Jung and the Children’s Book in the Adult Imagination’, Andrew Peter McCormack I developed my interest in Jungian theory and children’s literature when I began investigating literature which embeds the children’s book within adult storyworlds. My meta-level analysis …
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