Teaching children's fiction / edited by Charles Butler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butler, Catherine, 1963-

Series:

Teaching the new English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--Study and teaching (Higher).

Children's literature.

Children's stories--Study and teaching (Higher).

Children's stories.

Physical Description:

xiv, 214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Summary:

The last decade has seen an unprecedented growth in the attention given to children's literature, both within academia and beyond it. Children's fiction is now a vigorous and diverse area taught throughout the English-speaking world at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral level, in English departments, and in centres for the study of childhood, besides its longstanding role as a component of degrees in education, library, and information studies. Teaching Children's Fiction is the result of a collaboration by a group of experienced teachers and scholars in the field, and explores the most effective ways to study and teach the subject. Each of the essays in this book focuses on a different aspect of children's literature studies, and blends expository information with ideas for practical classroom applications. Including a comprehensive collection of resources for those planning and teaching courses in children's fiction, this first book in the Teaching the New English series will be invaluable for all higher-education teachers of children's fiction.

Contents:

1 Historical Studies / Pat Pinsent 6

2 Cultural Studies / David Rudd 29

3 Genre and Convention / Jean Webb 60

4 Looking in the Mirror: Pedagogy, Theory, and Children's Literature / Roderick McGillis 85

5 Word and Picture / Maria Nikolajeva 106

6 Children as Readers / Judith Elkin 152

7 Children's Literature at Postgraduate Level in the United Kingdom / Pat Pinsent, Kimberley Reynolds 172

8 Children's Literature at Postgraduate Level in the United States / Richard Flynn 181

1 Sample Undergraduate Syllabi / Charles Butler 189

3 Children's Literature Criticism: Key Texts / Charles Butler 200

4 Teaching Children's Literature in Higher Education: a Select Bibliography / Charles Butler 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1403944946

1403944954

OCLC:

62330999

Publisher Number:

9781403944948

9781403944955

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