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O'Sullivan, Emer. "Comparative children's literature /." London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2009. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=018910995&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Caracciolo, Dana Andriana. "Children's Literature and Diabetes." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31824.

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My studies consider the genre of children's literature, specifically picture books, and their treatment of the topic of diabetes. I frame my argument with an examination of diabetes, the psychological effects of diabetes on the child, the need of thorough education about diabetes. I argue for the use of the picture book as an effect tool in educating and socializing the diabetic child. I first explore the implications of diabetes and the long term complications caused by one's poor control of the disease. I then explore the psychological ramifications of a chronic illness on the young child

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Mattson, Christina Phillips. "Children's Literature Grows Up." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467335.

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Children’s Literature Grows Up proposes that there is a revolution occurring in contemporary children’s fiction that challenges the divide that has long existed between literature for children and literature for adults. Children’s literature, though it has long been considered worthy of critical inquiry, has never enjoyed the same kind of extensive intellectual attention as adult literature because children’s literature has not been considered to be serious literature or “high art.” Children’s Literature Grows Up draws upon recent scholarship about the thematic transformations occurring in th

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Weikle-Mills, Courtney. "The child reader and American literature, 1700-1852." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1181758570.

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Semizu, Yukino. "Adultness in children's literature : toward the awareness of adults' presence in children's literature." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13130/.

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This study focuses on the notion that adults’ response to children’s literature is profoundly different from that of children, and aims to identify a pattern in texts by which adults’ response can be systematically explained. The study suggests that adults respond to certain elements in the text that resonate with their assumptions about children’s literature. On this basis, the concept of adultness is introduced to refer to these textual elements, and the way in which they can be identified in the narrative is investigated. This study concentrates on literary books, mostly published after 196

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Carter, Victoria Chillik. "An Approach to Authoring and Publishing Children’s Literature." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1185390312.

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Stewart, Susan Louise Trites Roberta Seelinger. "Genre, ideology, and children's literature." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3172884.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2004.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed November 22, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Roberta Seelinger Trites (chair), Karen Coats, C. Anita Tarr. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-256) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Meisner, Jessica. "Effects of gender stereotyped children's literature on preschool children's attitudes /." Norton, Mass. : Wheaton College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/8395.

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Lyons, Reneé C. "Appalachian Children’s Literature as Multicultural Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2394.

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Carter, Victoria Chillik. "An approach to authoring and publishing children's literature." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1185390312.

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Young, Penelope M. "Witch images in Australian children's literature." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Education, 2001. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00001527/.

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In this dissertation it is argued that the European witch trials that took place between 1450 and 1700 have resulted in a legacy of stereotypical themes in Australian children's literature. Those accused of witchcraft were almost always women who were old, without protection, and physically ugly. They were accused of consorting with the devil, making harmful spells, flying through the night on a magic staff and exhibiting malevolent intent towards others. An analysis of this period forms the contextual framework for identifying themes that appear in contemporary Australian children's literatur

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Hay, Jody L. "Native American women in children's literature." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291972.

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This thesis focuses on the roles of Native women in children's literature. The study explores the works of five Native women writers in the United States that have successfully published adult literature and at least one children's book since 1990. The purpose of the research is to gain a better understanding of what these writers reveal about the roles of Native women in their literature for children. The data was collected using content analysis on the books and a questionnaire to determine (1) what roles the Native writers convey in their children's literature; and (2) what these women are

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Catt, Lindsay Joanne. "Quest : finding form in children's literature." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.586731.

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The thesis will situate the novel Quest within the context of children's literature. It will refer to popular children's books with similar themes and styles, specifically J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy (1911), The Neverending Story (1983) by Michael Ende, and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (1997-2007). Quest is a fantasy novel aimed at nine to twelve year olds; it tells the story of Max, a boy who uses his imagination as an emotional shield. After a perilous journey from island to island, each one more fantastical than the next, Max learns to reconnect with his absent father. The critical

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Williams, Karen Elizabeth. "Humour in children's literature, 1800-1840." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2017. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/humour-in-childrens-literature-18001840(68a38fe1-1c46-423f-923a-17633825c305).html.

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By reclaiming a wide range of comic works in key literary genres, my thesis proposes that contrary to prevailing critical discourse, humour was a widespread, intrinsic and valued part of children’s literature in the period 1800-1840. Histories of children’s literature in this era are inexorably tied to an antithetical configuration of instruction versus amusement. Although in recent criticism this binary has been challenged, the critical discussion of amusing texts remains limited to a narrow canon of works operating in opposition to the moral tale and other instructive texts. My thesis widens

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Knowles, George Murray. "Language and ideology in children's literature." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.606381.

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This study investigates the relationship between language, ideology and literature in popular children's fiction over the last one hundred and fifty years. In Chapter One criteria are established for the compilation of a computerised database of Victorian and Modern texts. The usefulness of computational techniques for linguistic analysis is demonstrated and discussion of genre, social institutions and writer / reader relationships follows. Chapter Two sets out to consider ideology in general and from the perspective of adults and children in particular. A framework for the operation of ideolo

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Klassen, Jonathan M. Trites Roberta Seelinger. "Narrative distancing in literature for youth." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1276405151&SrchMode=1&sid=3&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1202154634&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.<br>Title from title page screen, viewed on February 4, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Roberta Seelinger Trites (chair), Karen Coats, C. Anita Tarr. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 258-267) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Borhan, Burcu. "Gendered narratives in Victorian literature identity formation in empire-focused children's literature /." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3246.

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Thesis (M.A,)--George Mason University, 2008.<br>Vita: p. 101. Thesis director: Amelia Rutledge. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Aug. 27, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-100). Also issued in print.

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DeWitt, Amy L. "Parental Portrayals in Children's Literature: 1900-2000." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4884/.

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The portrayals of mothers and fathers in children's literature as companions, disciplinarians, caregivers, nurturers, and providers were documented in this research. The impact of time of publication, sex of author, award-winning status of book, best-selling status of book, race of characters, and sex of characters upon each of the five parental roles was assessed using descriptive statistics, cross-tabulation, and multinomial logistic regression techniques. A survey instrument developed for this study was completed for each of the 300 books randomly selected from the list of easy/picture book

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Tyson, Cynthia A. ""Shut my Mouth wide Open:" African American Fifth Grade Males Respond to Contemporary Realistic Children's Literature." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/39271566.html.

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Smith, Jennifer S. "Mining the mountain of Appalachian children's literature : defining a multicultural literature /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148640254459101.

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Sainsbury, Lisa Anne. "The postmodern carnival of children's literature : necessary playgrounds and subversive space in the protean body of children's literature." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246056.

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Onyango, James Ogola. "Masculinities in Kiswahili children's literature in Kenya." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91156.

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Children's literature affects the child's socialisation process, including the shaping the gender roles. But despite this, up to now children have featured less in gender scholarship. Against this backround, this paper seeks to critically interrogate the physical, social, economic and political manifestations of masculinities in selected Kiswahili children\'s books from Kenya. By analysing these works, we hope to demonstrate that power and ideological aspects of masculinites are rooted at childhood. Since special attention will be paid to the ideological and power basis of the masculinities, t

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Varma, Manju. "Multicultural children's literature, storytelling the Canadian identity." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0016/NQ53715.pdf.

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Goldstein, Jaime Elrath. "The integration of children's literature into mathematics." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2007. http://165.236.235.140/lib/JEGoldstein2007.pdf.

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Kahn, Leslie Joan. "Mathematics as life: Children's responses to literature." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184903.

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This teacher research study gave me an opportunity to examine how my sixth grade classroom learning environment changed over time to support students' responses to literature across sign systems, and to develop collaboration among adults and students. Specifically, it looked at the ways in which students made mathematical connections in informal discussions as part of class read aloud experiences and how they used mathematics to communicate responses to literature. Over the course of a year I gathered data primarily by audio taping as I read to the class and the following total class discussio

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葉淑蘭 and Sook-lan Yap. "A study of Zhang Tianyi's children's literature." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31211057.

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McGavock, Karen Louise. "Children's literature and the deconstruction of childhood." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439182.

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Commentators such as Neil Postman (1989) and journals such as the Critical Quarterly( 1997) announced the "death" of childhood towards the end of the twentieth-century, two hundred years after it was reputedly "born". Philosophers such as Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke constructed modern childhood in the eighteenth-century. Their construction of childhood radically differed from the previous construction of childhood. Instead of representing children as miniature adults and original sinners, Rousseau and Locke constructed the child as sentimental, innocent, natural, special and separate

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Onyango, James Ogola. "Masculinities in Kiswahili children's literature in Kenya." Swahili Forum 14 (2007), S. 245-254, 2007. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11506.

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Children''s literature affects the child''s socialisation process, including the shaping the gender roles. But despite this, up to now children have featured less in gender scholarship. Against this backround, this paper seeks to critically interrogate the physical, social, economic and political manifestations of masculinities in selected Kiswahili children\''s books from Kenya. By analysing these works, we hope to demonstrate that power and ideological aspects of masculinites are rooted at childhood. Since special attention will be paid to the ideological and power basis of the masculinities

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Gummow, Maureen Theresa. "Linking children's literature with multiculturalism and nutrition." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1017.

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Smart, Kirsten. "National consciousness in Postcolonial Nigerian children's literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22880.

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This project highlights the role of locally produced children's written literature for ages six to fourteen in postcolonial Nigeria as a catalyst for national transformation in the wake of colonial rule. My objective is to reveal the perceived possibilities and pitfalls contained in Nigerian children's literature (specifically books published between 1960 and 1990), for the promotion of a new national consciousness through the reintegration of traditional values into a contemporary context. To do this, I draw together children's literature written by Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi and Mabel Se

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Bennett, Jessica. "National Identity in South African Children's Literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3584.

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National identity is an important characteristic of a country and helps to create a sense of national unity between its citizens. Identity is a learned concept that develops at a young age from children's surroundings and interactions. According to Martyn Barrett, this sense of National identity is present as early as the age of 5, with children gaining greater understanding of the significance of national identity to the age of 11. During this time period, picture books play a major role in childhood development. Using picture books to help create a positive, unified sense of national identit

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Mikarsa, Hera Lestari. "Economic inequality : parallels between children's understanding and children's literature in two cultures." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1992. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2253/.

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Campbell, Nick. "Children's Neo-Romanticism : the archaeological imagination in British post-War children's fantasy." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2017. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/Children’s-Neo-Romanticism(d8dd7f80-d6a7-4e02-a103-c627adc0fad1).html.

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The focus of this study is a trend in British children’s literature concerning the ancientness of British landscape, with what I argue is a Neo-Romantic sensibility. Neo-Romanticism is marked by highly subjective viewpoints on the countryside, and I argue that it illuminates our understanding of post-war children’s literature, particularly in what is often called its Second Golden Age. Through discussion of four generally overlooked authors, each of importance to this formative publishing era, I aim to explore certain aspects of the Second Golden Age children’s literature establishment. I argu

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Manno, Annette Christine. "Teaching about conflict and values through children's literature." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1526.

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Jeziorski, Carolyn Ann Marie. "The experience of reality and fantasy from books: the six year old child." Thesis, Boston University, 1994. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27682.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>2031-01-02

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Johansson, Viktor. "Dissonant Voices : Philosophy, Children's Literature, and Perfectionist Education." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-92106.

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Dissonant Voices has a twofold aspiration. First, it is a philosophical treatment of everyday pedagogical interactions between children and their elders, between teachers and pupils. More specifically it is an exploration of the possibilities to go on with dissonant voices that interrupt established practices – our attunement – in behaviour, practice and thinking. Voices that are incomprehensible or expressions that are unacceptable, morally or otherwise. The text works on a tension between two inclinations: an inclination to wave off, discourage, or change an expression that is unacceptable o

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Bobo, Kirsti Ann. "Representations of Anglo-Saxon England in children's literature /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd666.pdf.

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Granahan, Louise Margaret. "The selection and use of multicultural children's literature." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0004/NQ41165.pdf.

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Micklitz, Bill. "The censors' magic wand the disappearing children's literature /." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2006/2006micklitzw.pdf.

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George, Carla Elizabeth. "Identity and the children's literature of George MacDonald." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96975.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACTThe Victorian period, often heralded as the golden age of children‘s literature, saw both a break and a continuation with the traditions of the fairy tale genre, with many authors choosing this platform to question and subvert social and literary expectations (Honic, Breaking the Angelic Image 1; Zipes, Art of Subversion 97). George MacDonald (1824-1905), a prolific Scottish theologian, whose unspoken sermons, essays, novels, fantasies and children‘s fairy tales deliberately engage with such issues as gender, mortality, class, pove

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De, Greef Relinde. "Socialization and children's literature : the Netherlands, 1918-1940." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398314.

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Moulton, Emily. "Confronting bullying : searching for strategies in children's literature /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2010. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2991.pdf.

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Moulton, Emily Ellen. "Confronting Bullying: Searching for Strategies in Children's Literature." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1854.

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Literature is a great resource for teaching valuable principles to children, including how to cope with bullying. However, no analyses exist regarding the appropriateness of these books. Children's books were identified as potential stories for bibliotherapy with elementary school children who face bullying. Information presented in selected books was compared to the current research literature on bullying. Each book's content was analyzed according to important variables, including the type of bullying behavior, gender of the perpetrator and target, presence of bystanders, adult involvement,

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Bobo, Kirsti A. "Representations of Anglo-Saxon England in Children's Literature." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2004. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/228.

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This thesis surveys the children's literary accounts of Anglo-Saxon history and literature that have been written since the mid-nineteenth century. Authors of different ages emphasize different aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture as societal need for and interpretation of the past change. In studying these changes, I show not only why children's authors would choose to depict the Saxons in their writing, but why medievalists would want to study the resulting literature. My second chapter looks at children's historical fiction and nonfiction, charting the trends which appear in the literature writte

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Minardi, Katherine Sublett. "Using Children's Literature: An Approach to Teaching Reading." UNF Digital Commons, 1994. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/84.

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The purpose of this project was to develop a thematic unit of children's literature that combines skills-based and meaning-based reading instruction. The curriculum guide was designed for use with third and fourth graders. Lessons concentrated on relating each story to previously read stories through guided questioning. Emphasis was placed on critical reading and thinking skills, as well as the integrating of reading, writing, listening, and speaking. The curriculum was reviewed by seven third and fourth grade inservice teachers from two schools. Both quantitative and qualitative data were col

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Boudreaux, Becky. "The Representation of the Environment in Children's Literature." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2006. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/335.

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This study is a descriptive research project which examines a purposeful census of the best selling children's books for 0-8 year olds in the United States in 2003. This cross-sectional study of these social artifacts evaluates the extent to which the ideologies of the environmental movement have been inculcated into culture. It evaluates how the environment is represented in childrenâ€™s literature and the extent to which children's literature meets the goals of environmental education. Through narrative semeiotic analysis of the themes, as well as the manifest (text) and latent (pic

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Rudd, David Hilary. "Enid Blyton and the mystery of children's literature." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 1997. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/20301/.

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This thesis examines Enid Blyton as a cultural phenomenon. It seeks to account for her enduring popularity, still immense some thirty years after her death in 1968. However, despite world-wide renown, there is comparatively little serious discussion of her work just as children's literature is itself a neglected area. This thesis uses Blyton as a case study of how cultural studies might open up this marginalised area. It brings together three, often separated lines of investigation textual analysis, production, and reception using the Foucauldian notion of 'discursive threads' to unite them. F

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Lesnik-Oberstein, Karin Beate. "Principles and practice in critical theory : children's literature." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/435ba144-6b16-4756-9c0c-03aceb151662.

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Owen, Christopher. "Systemic oppression in children's portal-quest fantasy literature." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52890.

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This thesis investigates the representation of systemic oppression in Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Employing Foucauldian poststructuralism and critical discourse analysis, this research identifies how the social systems of the fantasy texts construct hierarchies based on race and gender, and social norms based on sexuality and disability. Privilege and oppression are identified as the results of the relaying of power relations by social institutions through strategies such as dominant discourses. This study questions the historically

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Butler, Rebecca R. "Motor impairment in children's literature : perceptions and pedagogy." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2014. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/motor-impairment-in-children’s-literature(83b3a2a0-a718-4640-9bfc-2721099b651a).html.

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This project explores how pupils respond to disabled characters encountered in two fictional stories and considers the potential implications such reactions hold for teaching and learning in schools. The project reviewed three streams of literature, namely books for children in which disabled characters play a part, the literature of disability studies, and literature linked to inclusive education. The research data set was gathered at group sessions held with a total of 41 pupils in four mainstream primary schools and two schools for SEN pupils. The sessions were recorded on DVD. This data se

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