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Lewis Roberts 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2008,39(2):121-134
Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons is a defining example of contemporary realistic fiction for children. This article argues that
Walk Two Moons models storytelling as a tool which children need to understand their own relationship to reality and to literature.
Rather than employing a grim verisimilitude, as some critics have charged, Creech has created a novel of realistic character
development which also challenges any simplistic understanding of children’s realistic fiction through its complex and self-referential
narrative structure and use of literary language. The result is a narrative which, in the face of painful and tragic circumstances,
empowers readers toward a hopeful and optimistic view of life’s mysteries.
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| Lewis RobertsEmail: |
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Christina Rose Dubb 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2007,38(3):219-232
This article compares the first-person narratives of two adolescent girls in the novels The Rain Catchers and The House on Mango Street. I propose that adolescent girls can use literacy to read the world around them as a text and therefore help them to form
their own identities enough to ultimately find authority in telling their own stories. I use Judith Langer’s theory of envisionment-building
as a primary lens through which to interpret the girls’ narrative work and further elucidate the feminist aspects involved
through Belenky et al.’s famous work, Women’s Ways of Knowing.
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| Christina Rose DubbEmail: |
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Young-Suk Kim 《Reading and writing》2009,22(7):843-861
This study examined (1) the potential influence of oral language characteristics of two languages that bilingual children
acquire on their PA and (2) the relationship of PA in L1 with PA and literacy skills in L2, using data from Korean–English
bilingual children. Thirty three Korean–English bilingual children, composed of two subsamples from two different locations/bilingual
programs, participated in the study. The findings showed that the sample of bilingual children from two bilingual programs
differed in their mean performances on intrasyllabic phonological awareness in Korean (i.e., rime awareness and body awareness).
Furthermore, children’s Korean rime awareness, but not body awareness, was positively related to their phonological awareness
and literacy skills in English. Finally, these children’s phonological awareness in Korean made a positive contribution to
English decoding skills even after controlling for their English sight word reading skills. The results are discussed in light
of interlingual influence on bilingual children’s phonological awareness.
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| Young-Suk KimEmail: |
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Some educators experience difficulty documenting young children’s work in early childhood settings because of a limited understanding of the importance of documentation, what or how to document, and the effective use of documentation; limited resources (time, tools, and assistance); or predetermined curricular guidelines. Some teachers, especially inexperienced early years teachers, have trouble engaging with children and documenting simultaneously, revealing a crucial misunderstanding about the purpose of documenting. Teachers at Reggio Emilia-inspired schools throughout the United States use many forms of documentation to enhance the qualities of children’s experiences in preschool classrooms. This article addresses the dilemmas teachers face in implementing documentation in order to assist them as they move from standards-based teaching and teacher-determined content to a more constructivist approach to teaching. Ideas for using documentation shared by the authors will allow young children to construct their own knowledge and curiosity, making learning more meaningful to them and more visible to others.
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| Janice KroegerEmail: |
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Young-Suk Kim 《Reading and writing》2009,22(1):57-84
Previous studies with English-speaking families in the North American context demonstrated that home literacy practices have
positive influences on children’s literacy acquisition. The present study expands previous studies by examining how home literacy
practices are related to growth trajectories of emergent literacy skills (i.e., vocabulary, letter-name knowledge, and phonological awareness) and conventional literacy
skills (i.e., word reading, pseudoword reading, and spelling), and by using data from Korean children and families (N = 192). The study revealed two dimensions of home literacy practices, home reading and parent teaching. Frequent reading
at home was positively associated with children’s emergent literacy skills as well as conventional literacy skills in Korean.
However, children whose parents reported more frequent teaching tended to have low scores in their phonological awareness,
vocabulary, word reading and pseudoword reading after accounting for home reading. These results suggest a bidirectional relationship
between home literacy practices, parent teaching in particular, and children’s literacy skills such that parents adjust their
teaching in response to their child’s literacy acquisition. Furthermore, cultural variation in views on parent teaching may
explain these results.
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| Young-Suk KimEmail: |
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Joon Sun Lee 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2006,33(6):433-441
The 18 preschool teachers in the study tended to agree that preschool education for 4-year-olds should foremost be fun and engaging, not stressful. Teachers should develop curricula based on children’s interests and everyday lives, and allow children to choose their activities and to direct their own play and exploration at their own pace. The goal of preschool education should be to promote children’s social, emotional, and physical well-being, and not focus so much on academic learning.
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| Joon Sun LeeEmail: |
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Christina M. Desai 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2006,37(2):163-184
This article explores the question of how children’s literature reflects national identity in a diverse society. Drawing parallels with Ellison’s Invisible Man, it speculates on how literary omissions and misrepresentations of diverse groups may influence the minds of young readers in their attitudes toward themselves, their nation, and others. In a sampling of the current children’s picture book literature of Malaysia in English, it relates current thinking in multiculturalist and post-colonial theory to the forms of multiculturalism found in these works. It examines this literature’s representations of history, diversity, class, gender, and values to determine who is represented, how they are portrayed, who is excluded, and what values are promoted, exploring what image of national identity this literature projects.
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| Christina M. DesaiEmail: |
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Will P. Ortiz 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2008,39(4):269-280
The paper analyzes five historical fictions for children in the Batang Historyador (Young Historian) series which detail five
periods in Philippine history. The books discuss the issues of child labor in precolonial Philippines, child labor and the
right to education regardless of gender during the Spanish colonial period, child labor during the American Occupation, children
as witnesses of history in the Japanese Occupation and Martial Law periods. The narratives reveal (consciously or unconsciously)
how distortedly and inaccurately the past is told from the perspective of a colonized mind. The struggles of historians to
review and revision history from a pro-Filipino consciousness were totally unheeded. The works attempt to throw light on issues
of class, gender and children’s rights but Filipino issues regarding culture, identity, politics and history were obliterated
because the framework was tied to a “universal” notion of history.
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| Will P. OrtizEmail: |
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The intensifying globalization has made street survival more brutal and miserable for homeless children, especially in Third World countries. Sanmao, the Vagrant is a wordless picture book which tells of the adventures of a boy named Sanmao in streets of Shanghai during WWII. The essay analyzes how the artist’s ingenious visual narrative authentically anticipates the omnipresent impact of globalization on innocent children. Sanmao’s survival totally relies on his resilience and proactivity. He falls prey to unbridled exploitation and coercive and abusive treatment. Originally a comic intended for adults, the book is the artist’s furious protest against the indifferent attitude of the adult world.
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| Wenju ShenEmail: |
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In this paper we examine the possibility of differentiating between two types of nonexamples. The first type, intuitive nonexamples, consists of nonexamples which are intuitively accepted as such. That is, children immediately identify them as nonexamples.
The second type, non-intuitive nonexamples, consists of nonexamples that bear a significant similarity to valid examples of the concept, and consequently are more often
mistakenly identified as examples. We describe and discuss these notions and present a study regarding kindergarten children’s
grasp of nonexamples of triangles.
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| Esther LevensonEmail: |
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Nancy K. Freeman 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,34(5):357-366
Young children construct understandings of gender during the preschool years. They accurately apply common gender stereotypes
to toys by the time they are three and readily predict their parents’ opinions about gender-typical and cross-gender play.
This study involved 3- and 5-year-old children in identifying “girl toys” and “boy toys”. It also asked them to predict their
parents’ reactions to their choices of gender-specific toys. These children’s parents were surveyed in an effort to describe
their preferences about gender-specific toys and behaviors. Responses indicated that, in spite of evidence that many of these
parents reject common gender stereotypes, their children predicted parents would consistently apply these stereotypes as reflected
by their approval or disapproval of children’s choices to play with gender stereotyped or cross-gender toys. The mis-match
between parents’ self-described beliefs and children’s perceptions of the messages they have received about genderized play
are discussed.
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| Nancy K. FreemanEmail: |
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Sanne Parlevliet 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2008,39(2):107-120
This article examines adaptations in their capacity of preserving literary heritage. It describes how the Middle Dutch beast
epic Reynard the Fox lost its position in literature for adults and became part of a literary heritage that was no longer read but only studied
for its historical value. Versions for children kept the story alive. A comparison of English and Dutch adaptations of the
beast epic demonstrates the influence of different cultural contexts on transformation strategies used to cross the bridge
between the rough medieval satire and children’s literature. While English adaptations affiliated the story to other genres,
its status as the embodiment of Dutch national character compelled Dutch rewriters to find a satisfying justification to provide
children with a story lead by a remarkably scandalous hero.
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| Sanne ParlevlietEmail: |
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Tiina Annevirta Eero Laakkonen Riitta Kinnunen Marja Vauras 《Metacognition and Learning》2007,2(1):21-39
The aim of this study was, firstly, to explore the development of primary school children’s metacognitive knowledge from preschool
to the 2nd grade and the development of their text comprehension skill from the 1st grade to the 3rd grade. Secondly, the
developmental dynamics between metacognitive knowledge (MCK) and text comprehension skill (CS) across the first three school
years were investigated. The longitudinal sample included 181 children who were tested three times from preschool spring to
the spring term of the 3rd grade using an identical set of measurements: the Metacognitive Knowledge Test and Listening and
Reading Comprehension Tests. In studying developmental change using Latent Growth Curve modelling (LGC), no uni-construct effect for the development of MCK or for text CS was found. However, a slight multi-construct cumulative
development between the children’s MCK and reading CS was identified. Thus, it could be cautiously interpreted that the more
the children’s MCK developed from preschool to the end of the 2nd grade, the better reading CS they showed during the first
three school years.
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| Tiina AnnevirtaEmail: |
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Angela Eckhoff 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2008,35(5):463-472
The visual arts can be an important and rich domain of learning for young children. In PreK education, The Task Force on Children’s
Learning and the Arts: Birth to Age Eight (Young children and the arts: Making creative connections, Washington, DC: Arts Education Partnership, 1998) recommends that art experiences for young children include activities
designed to introduce children to works of art that are high quality and developmentally appropriate in both content and presentation.
This paper documents the teaching strategies utilized by a master art teacher at the Denver Art Museum to engage preschool-age
students in art viewing experiences which were part of a museum-based art program. This research provides support for integrating
rich, meaningful art viewing experiences as a regular part of young children’s arts experiences while offering early childhood
educators teaching strategies for early art viewing experiences.
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| Angela EckhoffEmail: |
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The paper reports on a study of young children and the nature of their art learning based on the in-depth approach and in
the context of chorotopos (space-place, area, landscape, region, village or town). The sample includes 50 children drawn from three classrooms in three
early childhood settings in the area of Thessaloniki and Chalkidiki, Greece. Classroom observation notes, audio-taped analysis,
photographic material and the artworks of children were used to find out the influences of the programs to young children’s
art learning. Findings indicate that artistic activities in relation to their chorotopos and in-depth exploration of materials made children more situated to their own environment and enabled them to understand
the potential expressiveness of materials and their inherent meaning. Teachers’ role was decisive in providing special “scaffolding”
to further the exploratory process in an interactive environment of learning. The findings highlight the significance of learning
in, through and about art by allowing children to experience their personal environment through objects and materials encountered
in their chorotopos, to appreciate its richness and to see themselves as part of it.
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| Andri Savva (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Diann L. Baecker 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2007,38(3):195-206
Scott O’Dell’s Island of the Blue Dolphins tells the archetypal story of the young, virgin, orphan girl who is vulnerable to either debauchery or rescue. That such
a girl must succumb to either one or the other is a necessary element of the archetype. In O’Dell’s work—one intended, after
all, for children—the heroine is rescued by a paternalistic figure and re-inscribed into the patriarchal world. Yet, in the
hands of young readers, Island—part fairytale, part rescue narrative, part feminist parable—becomes a story of independence and survival, despite the heroine’s
“rescue” at the end.
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| Diann L. BaeckerEmail: |
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George Reisch 《Science & Education》2009,18(2):191-197
In responding to critics and reviewers of my book, How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science, I attempt to identify some misleading conventional wisdom about the place of values in philosophy of science and then offer
three distinct ways in which philosophers of science can engage their work with ongoing social and political currents.
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| George ReischEmail: |
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Janis Dawson 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2007,38(2):141-152
This article discusses Philip Reeve's young adult science fiction novels as literary collages. It explores the ways in which
the author uses postmodernisms to introduce big ideas and construct a compelling futuristic world that combines fast-paced
adventure with the bildungsroman.
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| Janis DawsonEmail: |
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Marina U. Bers 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2007,16(6):537-552
This paper presents Project InterActions, a series of 5-week workshops in which very young learners (4- to 7-year-old children)
and their parents come together to build and program a personally meaningful robotic project in the context of a multigenerational
robotics-based community of practice. The goal of these family workshops is to teach both parents and children about the mechanical
and programming aspects involved in robotics, as well as to initiate them in a learning trajectory with and about technology.
Results from this project address different ways in which parents and children learn together and provide insights into how
to develop educational interventions that would educate parents, as well as children, in new domains of knowledge and skills
such as robotics and new technologies.
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| Marina U. BersEmail: |