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Table of Contents:
CONTENTS: Acts of reading: Introduction; 1. Old and new protocols of reading; Jane Johnson and her world: 2. Illuminating shadows: Jane Johnson's commonplace book; 3. Bringing 'wisdom into the hearts of young people': Aesop, Watts and Newberry as sources for Jane Johnson's fables and maxims; 4. The deeper game: Intuition, imagination and embodiment; Reading the past: Pedagogies, texts and teachers: 5. Five centuries of illustrating Aesop's Fables; 6. Reading lessons for 'baby grammarians': Lady Ellenor Fenn and the teaching of English grammar; 7. The Kildare Place Society: An influential force in 19th-century Irish education; 8. The child as common reader: The 'true complexity of reading' and the progress from hell to paradise; Reading, imagination and childhood: 9. Hiding places of power: The child as a site of resistance in William Wordsworth's poetry; 10. Cultivating the imagination: Coleridge and his circle of literature for children; 11. The Olympians: Neglect and imagination in late Victorian and Edwardian literature; Reading fictions: 12. Arthur de Caldicott and the New Literacy; 13. What do fairy tales teach? Updating and challenging the didactic canon; 14. Changing frames: From theatre on the page to galleries as a stage; Reading the future: 15. Reading in a digital age: Using new technologies to navigate texts together; 16. Teachers as readers in the 21st century; 17. And what do you think happened next?; List of contributors; Index.

About the Author :
Evelyn Arizpe is Lecturer in Children's Literature, Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow. Morag Styles is Reader in Children's Literature at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Review :
"Highly recommended to anyone who has an interest in reading and particularly for those who believe in the transformative effects of powerful texts... a gentle yet extremely rewarding and informative journey through time.." UKLA Review "Deep reflections on children's literature and the child reader that make for invigorating reading and will provide a rich source for future scholars." IbbyLink This eclectic collection provides all kinds of interesting insights into the multifaceted experience which the act of reading represents for children, and the complex, but rewarding challenges faced by the adults who accompany their progress as increasingly competent, autonomous and appreciative readers. International Research Society for Children's Literature


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781858565583
  • Publisher: Institute of Education Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Trentham Books Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Teachers, Text and Childhood
  • ISBN-10: 1858565588
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2009
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 256


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