Children's literature has been taught in undergraduate classrooms since the mid-1960s and has grown to become a staple of English literature, library science, and education programs. Children's literature classes are typically among the most popular course offerings at any institution. It is easy to understand why; children's literature classes promise students the opportunity to revisit familiar works with fresh eyes. With the growth of the children’s publishing industry and the celebration of recent scholarly interventions in the field, the popularity of the discipline is unlikely to abate. A central question of current children’s literature scholarship and practice is how to effectively address contemporary questions of social justice. This collection offers a series of interventions for the practice of teaching equity through children's literature in undergraduate classrooms. It is intended for individuals who teach, or who are interested in teaching, children’s literature to undergraduates. It includes contributions from practitioners from a range of institutional affiliations, disciplinary backgrounds, nationalities, and career stages. Furthermore, this volume includes contributions from scholars who belong to groups which are often underrepresented within academia, due to race, nationality, ethnicity, gender identity, disability, or other protected characteristics.
Edited by:
Gayatri Devi,
Philip Smith,
Stephanie J. Weaver
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032423586
ISBN 10: 1032423587
Pages: 146
Publication Date: 24 August 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Editors’ Introduction: Children’s Literature beyond the Golden Age? Gayatri Devi, Philip Smith, and Stephanie J. Weaver Part I Theoretical Approaches to Teaching Children’s Literature Chapter 1 The Pedagogical Potential of Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Why All English Studies Professors Should Teach Children’s and Young Adult Texts Erika Romero Chapter 2 Censoring the ""N-Word"": Issues When Teaching Early African American Children’s Folktales Lashon Daley Chapter 3 Engaged Pedagogy as Empowerment: Teaching Embodiment of Gender and Sexuality in the Adolescent Literature Classroom Tharini Viswanath Chapter 4 The Power of Diverse Perspectives and Inclusive Voices in Contemporary Young Adult Literature Elizabeth Laura Yomantas Part II Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching Children’s Literature Chapter 5 And Now for a Story: The Critical and Emotional Benefits of Reading Aloud When Teaching Children’s Literature B.J. (Epstein) Woodstein Chapter 6 Teaching LGBTQ+ Picture Books in First-Year Writing Noah Mullens Chapter 7 Reading Decolonially in a Children’s Literature Classroom in the Philippines Gabriela Lee Chapter 8 Teaching Guide: Children’s Literature Resource File for Teaching Children’s Literature to Undergraduates Laura Lemanski, Sara K. Sterner, and Megan Van Deventer"
Gayatri Devi is a Professor of English at Savannah College of Art and Design. She co-edited Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema (2014), Myths Shattered and Restored (2016), and the special issue on transnationalism (2017) for the North Dakota Quarterly, where she serves as a contributing editor. Fluently trilingual in English, Malayalam, and Hindi, she does translation and subtitling work for Indian films and literary translation from Malayalam to English. Her articles and book chapters on South Asian, Middle Eastern, and indigenous literatures and films have been published both in the US and India. Philip Smith is the author of Reading Art Spiegelman (Routledge, 2015), Shakespeare in Singapore (Routledge, 2020), and co-author of Printing Terror: American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique (Manchester UP, 2021). He served as co-director of the Shakespeare Behind Bars program at The Correctional Facility at Fox Hill, Nassau, Bahamas; fight choreographer for the Shakespeare in Paradise festival; and executive board member for the Comics Studies Society. He is Chair of Liberal Arts and Professor of English at Savannah College of Art and Design. He is editor-in-chief of Literature Compass. He is level 47 in Pokémon Go and has a perfect Mewtwo (which, if you play Pokémon Go, you will know is pretty impressive). Stephanie J. Weaver is the Associate Director for Academics at the Forman School in Litchfield, Connecticut, and an Adjunct Professor at St. John's University in New York. Her most recent publication is an essay in Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene, published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2022. She is currently working on developing an anthology on teaching fantasy literature based on her various experiences in education.
