Laliena, Daniel Tabernero Sala, Rosa
Published in
Frontiers in Education
The recent proliferation of environmental children’s literature and the growing interest in this type of books by researchers and proponents of ecocriticism could be deemed a byproduct of contemporary concerns regarding environmental sustainability. Considering books for children as more than mere tools for environmental awareness-raising prompts a...
Almqvist, Louise
Around 2007, several self-proclaimed norm-critical publishing companies were established in Sweden. This caused a long debate in the daily press, where some critics compared the ”norm-critical” books to propaganda. The debate indicates a conflict between an aesthetic and a didactic approach to children’s literature. Another lively debate with simil...
Nilsson, Maria
Despite the overwhelming consensus about the benefits of using authentic picturebooks to teach English in primary school, studies from various contexts indicate that this resource is not capitalized on to any large extent (Fuchs & Ross, 2022; Mair, 2018). One reason appears to be that teachers feel insecure about choosing and planning for such work...
Tahiri, Ardiana
The purpose of this thesis is about children librarians work with reading promotion activities. In this study five children librarians were interviewed. All the children librarians were interviewed through Microsoft team, Skype and Zoom due to the pandemic situation. An interview up to 15 questions were questioned during the interviews with the chi...
Haynes, Joanna
This paper is concerned with unhoming secure ideas and practices of knowledge creation, through non-hierarchical, boundary-crossing forms of pedagogy, in order to attend to how processes of enquiry matter, whenever we engage in the struggle to address injustice, and not only for humans. Entrenched assumptions related to age, phase, or education set...
Alfredsson, Johan
Johan Alfredsson, Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg The Poetic Zone: The Performative Potential of Poetry in Picturebooks for Children (Den poetiska zonen. Poesins performativa potential i bilderböcker för barn) This article discusses how picturebooks for children can make use of poetry in order to e...
Tunkiel, Katarzyna A.
Published in
Folia Scandinavica Posnaniensia
This paper aims to explore how Norwegian picturebooks published in Poland in the years 2008-2018 are presented in publishers’ blurbs and adult readers’ online reviews. The study is grounded in Scandinavian theory of literature mediation and it makes particular use of the concept of public epitexts. Drawing on research on contemporary Scandinavian p...
Železen, Laura
V magistrskem delu predstavljamo, kako s pomočjo slikanice kot učnega sredstva učencem na njim zanimiv način predstaviti in približati tematiko drugačnosti, natančneje gibalno oviranost. Teoretični del smo razdelili na štiri večje sklope. V prvem sklopu smo opredelili koncept strpnosti in koncept pripoznanja, ki se je vzpostavil kot nadgradnja prve...
Thompson, Ross A
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Attachment & human development
Picture book reading is a forum for early language development and for the development of relationships, as reading a story evokes connections between the narrative, the reader, and the child, and invites shared understanding of the story as it intersects with the child's experience. The study by Teufl and colleagues poses interesting questions abo...
Ivarsson, Julia
This essay examines how the picture book characters Mamma Mu and Kråkan are presented in text and illustrations. The purpose is to analyze how the interaction between the characters play out and how it can be interpreted from a critical gender perspective, and how picture books can set a scenery on how children perceive the world. The analysis is ...
