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Hence, the study confirms the need for further research into the implementation of CLP among teachers, while also demonstrating the methodological strength of using vignettes to investigate literary-pedagogical choices educators make in response to specific texts.
Do teachers read against the text? Studying the prevalence of critical literature pedagogy through a vignette · 2025 · DOILibraries should have a wide variety of picture books that represent diversity to support different identities. Based on our findings, we offer the following recommendations when selecting children’s literature that portrays intersectionality: Choose picture books that reflect a diverse range of identities. This has a noticeable impact on readers in establishing their own self-identities. A study carried out between 2003 and 2008 showed that limited representation of identities in picture books may lead to children having a negative perception of their own identities, competence, and self-worth.23 Identify editors and publishers who write picture books from an anti-bias stance. Children’s book editor Laura Atkins argued that books are shaped by editors’ preferences, the culture of publishers, and targeted readers.24 From a broader standpoint, publishers should try to hire diverse editors for increased representation of identities in the picture books.
Beyond a Single Identity: Family-Themed Picture Books Depicting Intersecting Identities · 2023 · DOIThe present paper is part of a multiple case study of literary classroom work at Norwegian lower-secondary schools (students aged 13–16) where three classes are invited to discuss texts presented to them as open problems.
Friction in fiction. A study of the importance of open problems for literary conversations · 2019 · DOIDespite the explicit focus on Europe, the conference call for papers suggests that the impact of the European avant-garde on non-European children’s literature should be investigated as well; however, when it comes to this volume, outside of Europe, only the United States and Britain, which may or may not be considered part of Europe, are represented, although the Soviet Union seems to play a larger role than the conference organizers had originally anticipated.
Children’s Literature and the Avant-Garde ed. by Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer · 2017 · DOIHowever, despite increased interest in nonfiction children's books, the findings of literacy research, new standards, and recent legislative mandates, critical research on children's nonfiction remains scarce and studies center primarily on topics like accuracy of information, design, organization, and style.
3)Similarly, in Whaling Season: A Year in the Life of an Arctic Whale Scientist (Lourie, 2009), the author describes scientist Craig George's continuing fascination with bowhead whales: What has motivated Craig for decades is his fascination for the mystery [italics added] of the whales-all the things that remain unknown about the animal (p.
Reading for the Mystery in Nonfiction Science Books. · 2013With limited, yet remarkable help, Little Hans nevertheless had the ego strength and resilience to resume progressive development and to forge a successful creative career The new knowledge about Little Hans, his family, culture and child development provides new perspectives and raises new questions and challenges to the century-old pioneer report and formulations confirming and largely limited to the child's positive Oedipus complex.
Besides its clashing narrative modes, its very form as a in 1894 was scarcely the preferred medium of progressive ideas, considering the traditional associations of the three-volume format with upper-middle class privilege (especially the patronage of the circulating libraries).
"Not a Novel, nor Even a Well-Ordered Story": Formal Experimentation and Psychological Innovation in Sarah Grand's the Heavenly Twins · 2007In order to solve this problem, this section gives short summaries of those books that have been published from 2004 to 2005 and have not been reviewed in this Journal.
Books Published 2003-2004 [Book Review] · 2004This analysis of a sequence of grammar instruction in a fifth grade classroom addresses the following question: How are the familiar instructional objects called problems, answers, errors, and solutions made visible to the cohort? Summed as the “visibility of instruction,” the question is warranted by a round of instruction in which producing the visibility of an actual problem, error, and solution is the teacher's actual, practical task.
' The fact remains to be proved, but supposing that they do prefer such tales, is this a reason why they should be induldged in reading them?" This was 1795, when the publication of books aimed specifically at children had been a commercial proposition in England for some decades, and there was consequently a deal of dry, didactic stuff around.
THE RELATIVELY FEW published studies of Edward Bond show that he is a skillful and self-conscious artist well aware of his own aims, ideas, and methods, and suggest that many aspects of his work remain to be explored.
Henry Cohen is with the Institute of Public Administration. He was formerly Deputy City Administrator of New York City and Director of Research for the New York City Planning Commission. He is co-editor of the recently published Urban Research and Education in the New York Metropolitan Region. The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States. John W. Reps. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965. Pp. 578, 314 illustrations, $25.00.) Five centuries is but a brief span in the history of man. The voracious eating up of the American continent, marked by wild speculation in land; the building of towns, villages, and cities; the flowering of an awesome technology; and the birth of a new world power, unknown to medieval man, have all occurred within this time span. John Reps’ history of city planning, with its focus on the physical layout of cities, is a classic. Scale-the order of magnitude-is probably one of the elements which has been most revolutionized in this five hundred-year period. The earliest settlements might include from twenty to a hundred families and between two and five streets. Defense considerations required compact settlement. City planning within that framework involved relatively simple issues of location, such as access to water and elevation to avoid flooding. The arrangement of streets, communal buildings, houses, and in some cases, land and allotments were relatively simple considerations. Even the London of 1666-which was far larger than any then existing American community-was being planned over an area one-half mile deep by a mile and a half long, a rather far cry from modern London, modem New York, or modem Los Angeles. Even allowing for differences in transportation speeds, the ordinary internal journeys were much shorter than those we experience today, with the exception of those settlements closely linked to agriculture, where the mile or two-mile trip to the land allotment must have seemed as long as many we make today.
A title which was associated with the LJf-LJ as early as the Nineteenth D;ynasty (9, 10, 17, 18, 22, 33, 46, 49) and probably also far earlier is ~1~ 'scribe of the sacred book(s)" but whether every bearer of this title was actually connected with some House of Life must remain uncertain.
This connection has become somewhat infamous in popular culture and has been underresearched due to how recently both concepts became significant forces within the publishing industry.
Romantasy's inevitable lasting legacy · 2026This is the first open issue of Jeunesse after two themed issues – on children’s clothing (15.
Editorial Introduction: Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Back – Resources to Identify Diverse Children’s Literature and Resist Complacency · 2024 · DOIThis study also focused specifically on picture books and the topic of families, so it does not account for intersectional children’s lit- erature in other formats featuring additional themes.
Beyond a Single Identity: Family-Themed Picture Books Depicting Intersecting Identities · 2023 · DOIPrior research has found that children prefer realistic to make-believe stories, but little is known about children’s preferences for anthropomorphic characters.
Abstract In this contribution, we explore something rarely reported on in research on children’s literature: how an old children’s book is re-appropriated and altered in ongoing teaching practice.
Revamping Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle in Classroom Practice: Negotiating Stereotypes, Literary Language, and Outdated Values · 2022 · DOIWordless picturebooks are an under researched literary genre in the South African context but, we argue, they can be used to spark a culture and love of reading because they can be enjoyed by readers of various backgrounds, language preferences, and literacy levels.
Research suggests fear of parental backlash is a primary reason why teachers preemptively censor books, yet parents’ beliefs about challenged children’s books are understudied.
“Please Let This be the Crassest Thing My Child Reads!”: Exploring Community Perceptions of Challenged Children’s Literature · 2020 · DOIThis article argues that Colson Whitehead’s much understudied coming of age novel Sag Harbor makes an important intervention into the history of the coming of age genre.
‘It Was the Last Time We’d Start the Summer that Way’: Space, Race, and Coming of Age in Colson Whitehead’s<i>Sag Harbor</i> · 2020 · DOIThe key similarity is that both volumes envision the Gothic as a space ("Borders," "Lands") that needs to be explored and mapped by careful readers and critics of children's books.
It is at once almost impossible to imagine the early American literary canon before the recovery of Charlotte Temple and remarkable to think that an author so widely taught in our time remains so little known, the vast majority of her works out of print.
This analysis proves insightful for readers with a limited knowledge of Bakhtin’s ideas, and is effective in building a framework which will inform Elick’s arguments and provide a cohesive thread running through all ten chapters.
Most-cited papers in Themes in Literature Analysis
- Classroom encounters with the unspeakable: “Do you see, Danelle?” · Discourse Processes · 1994 · 41 citations
- How Do Children Socially Learn from Narrative Fiction: Getting the Lesson, Simulating Social Worlds, or Dialogic Inquiry? · Educational Psychology Review · 2022 · 35 citations
- Book love. A cultural sociological interpretation of the attachment to books · Poetics · 2020 · 34 citations
- Grand Images: Exploring Images of Grandparents in Picture Books · Journal of Research in Childhood Education · 2013 · 27 citations
- The State of the art in Picturebook research from 2010 to 2020 · Language Arts · 2021 · 24 citations
- A Content Analysis of Orbis Pictus Award–Winning Nonfiction, 1990–2014 · Language Arts · 2015 · 21 citations
- Picture Books, Imagination and Play: Pathways to Positive Reading Identities for Young Children · Education Sciences · 2023 · 20 citations
- Anthropomorphic Characters in Children’s Literature · The Elementary School Journal · 2020 · 19 citations
- Mums, dads and the kids: Representations of rainbow families in children’s picture books · Journal of LGBT Youth · 2020 · 19 citations
- Toward a (Queer) Reading Community: BookTok, Teen Readers, and the Rise of TikTok Literacies · Talking Points · 2021 · 19 citations
Most recent work
- The potential of a fantasy story picture book for learning biology in early years · Journal of Biological Education · 2026
- The (In)Visibilization of Urban San Diego: A City Storied for Young Readers · Urban Education · 2026
- Hearing the Unheard: New Visions of Ability in African Books for Children · Children s Literature in Education · 2026
- Starting at the back: using backmatter to further social studies content · Social Studies Research and Practice · 2026
- Book Review: Miriam Udel, Modern Jewish Worldmaking through Yiddish Children’s Literature · Contemporary Jewry · 2026
- Story Events and Student Questions: Pairing <i>Books Aren’t for Bears</i> with a Strategy for Literature Circle Talk · Georgia Journal of Literacy · 2026
- The Same Place That Breaks You, Heals You: Landscape Transformation in Contemporary American Young Adult Fiction · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026
- Good Girls · Barnboken · 2026
- Book Reviews · Ibis · 2026
- Genre and stylistic features of fantasy works and the terminological history of the genre’s formation · Acta Academiae Beregsasiensis, Philologica · 2026
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