scholarly journals Ecocritical Engagement with Picturebook through Literature Conversations about Beatrice Alemagne’s On a Magical Do-Nothing Day

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7653
Author(s):  
Nina Goga ◽  
Maria Pujol-Valls
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Dialogic Teaching ◽  
Teacher Researcher ◽  
Representations Of Nature ◽  
Ecological Wisdom

This article addresses the need for student teachers to experience how to engage ecocritically with children’s literature to be able to support and develop the sustainability competencies of their future students. In order to respond to this need, we designed a research project examining how Norwegian and Catalan student teachers express and negotiate their ideas about an Italian–French picturebook in a teacher–researcher designed ecocritical literature conversation (ELC). The collected material, consisting of students’ notes and sound recorded and transcribed group discussions, was analysed following the steps of content analysis with an emphasis on finding evidence of dialogic competencies and ecocritical competencies. Although the students did not explicitly integrate ecocritical terminology in their discussions, we found that when structured in line with ideas of dialogic teaching, ecocritical thinking, and literature didactics, literature conversations proved to be a useful tool for these students to critically engage with and negotiate about representations of nature and ecological wisdom from the selected picturebook.

A content analysis of gender representation in Malaysian children's literature

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Ramesh Nair
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
English Language ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Mental Schemas ◽  
Selection Of

Children's literature serves as a powerful medium through which children construct messages about their roles In society and gender Identity is often central to this construction. Although possessing mental schemas about gender differences is helpful when children organize their ideas of the world around them, problems occur when children are exposed to a constant barrage of uncompromising, gender-schematic sources that lead to stereotyping which in turn represses the full development of the child. This paper focuses on how gender is represented in a selection of Malaysian children's books published in the English language. Relying on the type of content analysis employed by previous feminist social science researchers, I explore this selection of Malaysian children's books for young children and highlight some areas of concern with regard to the construction of maleness and femaleness in these texts. The results reveal Imbalances at various levels Including the distribution of main, supporting and minor characters along gendered lines and the positioning of male and female characters In the visual Illustrations. The stereotyping of these characters In terms of their behavioural traits will be discussed with the aim of drawing attention to the need for us to take concerted measures to provide our children with books that will help them realize their potential to the fullest.

scholarly journals Milliyet Çocuk and the Making of Children's Literary Culture in Turkey in the 1970s

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-75
Author(s):  
Deniz Arzuk
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Majority Group

This article is based on a systematic content analysis of Milliyet Çocuk, a children's magazine published by a left-leaning publishing house in the politically polarised context of Turkey in the late 1970s. It outlines the socio-political and cultural context, defines Milliyet Çocuk's position in the structure of the publishing field and questions how a non-majority group made space for themselves in a nation's children's literature. The archival material used in this article has been collected for the course New Perspectives in Cultural History, taught by Prof. Cengiz Kırlı. My research is funded by the Swedish Institute.

scholarly journals Patterns and Trends in Contemporary Canadian Verse-Novels for Young People

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Beverley A. Brenna ◽  
Yina Liu ◽  
Shuwen Sun
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Reluctant Readers ◽  
Verse Novel

This qualitative content analysis identified patterns and trends in a contemporary set of Canadian verse-novels for young people. Twenty-two books were located in our search for titles published between 1995 and 2016, and many of these emerged as award-winners in various contexts including the Governor General’s Award for children’s literature (text). Dresang’s notion of Radical Change, adapted for this interrogation, illuminated particular elements of these societal artifacts worthy of notice. While studies have occurred regarding textual forms or formats and reader characteristics, specific work with the verse-novel and its use with struggling and reluctant readers is limited, with professional articles appearing in place of research-oriented discussions. Scrutiny of available verse-novels is important as it opens a door for explorations of these resources with participants in classroom settings.  

A (des)Construção da Concepção Hegemônica da Infância: um Estudo do Filme Alice no País das Maravilhas

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 398
Author(s):  
Luana Santos Nogueira Garcia ◽  
Maritza Maciel Castrillon Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
The Real ◽  
Education School ◽  
Reflective Study

Este trabalho se insere em um projeto de pesquisa da Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso denominado: “Cinema, Infâncias e Diferença: problematizando a educação, o cotidiano da escola e o currículo”. Tendo como objetivo discutir a influência do filme: Alice no país das maravilhas (1951) para entender como esta obra cinematográfica esfacela, desmonta e descontrói a idealização de infância. Ainda, se apoia no pensamento de Deleuze (2007) para demonstrar que a vida real é cheia de paradoxos, que fogem da lógica, carregando antagonismos, produzindo múltiplos sentidos e desencadeando diferentes representações. O trabalho tem como proposta metodológica a pesquisa bibliográfica e o estudo reflexivo sobre o filme de Tim Burton. Os resultados deste estudo permitem problematizar e pensar diferentes “concepções” de infância já colocadas e instituídas, que (des)compõe o sentido real de ser criança. Palavras-chave: Literatura Infantil. Infância. Paradoxos. AbstractThis work is part of a research project of  Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso denominated “Cinema, Childhood and Difference: questioning education, school everyday and the curriculum”. In order to discuss the influence of the film Alice in the Wonderland (1951) to understand how this film destroys , disassembles, deconstructs the idealization of childhood. Also, it corroborates the thought of Deleuze (2007) to demonstrate that real life is full of paradoxes that are out of logic, carrying antagonisms, producing multiple senses and triggering different representations. The work has as methodological approach the bibliographical research and the reflective study on the Tim Burton’s film. The results of this study allow to problematize and think about different “conceptions” of childhood already placed and imposed that (des) composes the real sense of being a child. Keywords: Children's Literature. Childhood. Paradoxes.

scholarly journals Gender Issues in Children’s Literature: An Analysis of Fairytales

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahira Akbar ◽  
Ra,ana Malik ◽  
Farooq E Azam
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Behavioral Traits ◽  
Grass Root ◽  
Grass Root Level

This paper intends to explore the reasons of gender discrimination indifferent segments of Pakistani society at grass root level. This study isbased on qualitative content analysis of children’s literature from whichthe most popular corpse of ten English fairytales purposively. Activitiesof different characters along with their social were selected andeconomic status, behavioral traits, gendered messages and thematic roleswere analyzed by using coding frame for manifest and stimulus clues forlatent information. This content analysis research indicates that genderdifference is an integral part of the fairy tales which shows female genderinferior to male. A detailed qualitative analysis of these selectedfairytales cited that gender issues start from titles and prevail throughoutthe fairytales. Males had proper names but girls were known with theirattributive names in the titles. The study suggests a need for drasticchange behaviorally, psychologically and materially (in our children’sliterature and particularly in fairytales) to keep pace with the 21st century,which demands us to be more creative, active and innovative withscientific approach instead of becoming an escapist.

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