scholarly journals Økokritiske litteratursamtaler – en arena for økt bevissthet om økologisk samspill?

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Nina Goga
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Specific Proposal ◽  
Johanna Spyri ◽  
Literary Classics

Høsten 2020 innføres nye læreplaner (LK20) i norsk skole. Noe av det nye i disse læreplanene er innføringen av tverrfaglige temaer og kjerneelementer i alle fag. I denne artikkelen retter jeg oppmerksomheten mot det tverrfaglige temaet bærekraftig utvikling for å diskutere hvordan dette kan integreres i norskfaget med vekt på kjerneelementene tekst i kontekst, kritisk tilnærming til tekst og muntlig kommunikasjon. Diskusjonen tar utgangspunkt i teoretiske perspektiver på økokritikk, littera-tursamtaler og skalert lesing, og gjennom et forslag til hvordan lærere kan legge til rette for økokritiske litteratursamtaler om representasjoner av forholdet mellom barn og trær i to barnelitterære klassikere. Artikkelen argumenterer for at denne koblingen mellom oppmerksom lesing av og samtaler om barnelitteratur kan utvikle kritiske perspektiver på verbal-språklige framstillinger av flersanselige naturerfaringer og dermed være et bidrag til økt bevissthet om økologisk samspill. Dette er kunnskap som kan ha betydning for hvordan barn og unge blir språklig rustet til å orientere seg i den overordnete klimadiskursen og for hvordan de vil forstå seg selv i rollen som økoborgere.Nøkkelord: økokritikk, plantestudier, litteratursamtaler, barnelitteratur, Johanna Spyri, L. M. MontgomeryEcocritical literature conversations – An arena for increased awareness of ecological interplay?AbstractBy autumn 2020 a new national school curriculum (LK20) will be introduced in Norway. Some of what is new in LK20 is the introduction of cross-curricular themes and core elements in all school subjects. In this article I turn the attention to the cross-curricular theme sustainable development to discuss how this may be integrated into the school subject Norwegian and with a special emphasis on the core elements text in context, critical approach to text and oral communication. The discussion is based on theoretical perspectives on ecocriticism, literature conversations and scaled reading, and on a specific proposal for how teachers may prepare for ecocritical literature conversations on representations of the relationship between children and trees in two literary classics for children. The article argues that this bridging between careful reading of and conversation about children’s literature may evolve a critical approach to verbal depictions of multisensory nature experiences and hence contribute to increased awareness of ecological interplay. Such knowledge may prove significant to children’s linguistic skills needed to orientate in the overall climate discourse and to how they understand themselves as ecocitizens.Keywords: ecocriticism, plant studies, literature conversations, children’s literature, Johanna Spyri, L. M. Montgomery

Links to Literature: Using Literature to Investigate Transformations

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 510-513
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Harris
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mathematical Problem ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Mathematical Problem Solving

I am always looking for children's literature to make and enrich connections to the elementary school curriculum. In particular, books and stories that use mathematical problem solving not only engage children in the narrative but also give them opportunities to see how mathematics is used in everyday life. A Cloak for the Dreamer by Aileen Friedman (1994) investigates relationships among shapes and, at the same time, tells a wonderful story.

scholarly journals The Fortunes of Hungarian Children’s Literature at Home and in the English-Speaking World

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 145-163
Author(s):  
Anna Bentley
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
English Language ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Hungarian State

This paper asks why so few works of Hungarian children’s literature have made it to publication in English-speaking countries. It finds that few translated children’s books make it onto the English-language market and those translations that are successful mainly appear in major European languages. Representation at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair has been dogged by a lack of financial resources and polish while Hungarian State funding has lacked continuity. Nearly all the English translations of Hungarian children’s books available today have been published in Hungary, although a book will occasionally find its way to foreign publishers by informal means. This paper also follows the development of Hungarian children’s literature from the late nineteenth century to the present day, noting changes in terms of character, subject matter and attitudes to diversity and use of the fairy-tale tradition. It outlines one recent controversy surrounding the publication of Meseország mindenkié [’Storyland for Everybody’], a book which aims, in contrast to the current regime’s ideology, to represent the marginalized in Hungarian society. It also details recent clashes sparked by the new Hungarian National School Curriculum and one writer’s feminist critique of a classic text.

A Critical Approach to Children's Literature

1968 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Robert J. Hoare ◽  
Sara Innis Fenwick
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Critical Approach

scholarly journals Green Dialogues and Digital Collaboration on Nonfiction Children’s Literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Marnie Campagnaro ◽  
Nina Goga
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
Dialogic Teaching ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Hands On ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Teachers And Students

Contemporary children’s literature has developed a growing interest in the interconnectedness between humans and the environment and in the ongoing exchange and negotiation of ways to be in the world. These new directions in children’s literature consequently challenge teachers of children’s literature in higher education. The study of contemporary children’s literature needs not only to be informed by new theoretical perspectives like ecocriticism, posthumanism and new materialism, but also to revisit, develop and explore the methodological tools and teaching practices necessary to prepare students to address these demanding issues. The aim of the article is to present and discuss the research question: How is it possible to secure scholarly dialogue and practical collaboration in an academic course on nonfiction children’s literature and environmental issues? Building on a cross-disciplinary theoretical framework consisting of theory of nonfiction, ecocriticism, dialogic teaching, environmental architecture and place-based teaching, the study reports on a pilot course which took place in the summer of 2020. Due to the pandemic situation the course became digital. Hence the digital challenges and possibilities turned out to be a critical aspect of the planned practical collaboration between students, teachers and students and teachers. The main goal of the course was to help motivate students to engage in and negotiate about nonfiction children’s literature and sustainability, to enhance their aesthetic experiences and to foster their environmental consciousness through children’s literature. The course was characterized by its alternating blending of lectures and hands-on experiences with theoretical and methodological tools as well as nature or culture specific places.

scholarly journals Classics of Children’s Literature: Definitions – Ideologies – Theoretical Concepts

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 231-249
Author(s):  
Maciej Skowera
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Literary Classics

The aim of the paper is to present a discussion on the issue of classicality in relation to children’s literature and in the context of ideology, as well as to formulate a definition of literary classics for young readers based on socio-cultural and not aesthetic criteria. The author refers to representative examples of Polish and English reflection on the issue and, at the end of the article, proposes to define classical works as literary texts that, after many years from their creation, are still subjected to professional and non-professional rereading and various transformations.

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