International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
51 Teaching Fiction and Poetry Geoff Fox The history of teaching English literature in schools has been marked by a series of co ...
declaration of faith to the language and principles of recent reports on the teaching of English, whose writers have been severe ...
kind of work argue that to treat literature in this way is to run the risk of students perceiving books of fiction and poetry as ...
A Reading Community The basis for successful teaching of literature is the same, whether the group is a primary-school class or ...
without a teacher present, although sometimes the teacher will have left an agenda for the group to address. Children’s novelist ...
Bob Barton in Canada (1986) have shown the value of working along a continuum in which listeners become tellers. It is no surpri ...
The answer is not to abandon Browne as too difficult, but to encourage readers to see and hear more of him, to accustom themselv ...
Older students have been invited to create their own picture books, usually with a readership of younger children in mind. This ...
experiences match the daily serial reading of a novel which the class awaits each day with hungry anticipation. In such a circum ...
Teaching Poetry The range of poetry accessible to younger children and to the whole ability range in secondary schools expanded ...
audiences such as homes for the elderly. First encounters with other poems which demand reflection might be followed by individu ...
Hughes, Ted (1968) The Iron Man, London: Faber. Newbolt Report (1921) The Teaching of English in England, London: HMSO. Nodelman ...
52 Teaching Children’s Literature in Higher Education Tony Watkins Children’s literature is taught at all levels of education, f ...
they were children. In the adult response to such children’s books, ‘wishfulness and enchantment...coexist with an acceptance of ...
years later had over 1,200 members (Sadler 1992:144). In 1992, an MLA survey claimed that courses in children’s literature in hi ...
major genres in children’s literature, history of children’s literature, comparative mythology, literature for adolescents, lite ...
In the twelve-month PGCE courses, the problem was one of time, not lack of enthusiasm. At the University of Exeter, for example, ...
work was done within teacher education, but there were also major developments elsewhere. In the 1980s, Worcester College ran a ...
Three other MAs in children’s literature were started in Britain in the 1990s. The University of Warwick’s MA offered nine modul ...
In Canada, at the University of New Brunswick, for example, several courses on children’s literature were offered in the Faculty ...
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