Browsing by Subject "Children's Literature"

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    Aesthetic Inquiry into Chinese University Student Fatherly Life Lessons: “Roots” and their Implications for Educational Contexts
    (2017-04-07) Liu, Laura B.; Education, IUPUC
    Globally, teachers are trained to educate and assess children through matrices based on comparative competition, a practice that thrives on ranking. In an era of glocalization, how might educational systems cultivate classroom connections embracing diverse student gifts? This arts-based narrative inquiry explores fatherly life lessons of 17 undergraduate and six graduate students enrolled in an introductory qualitative research course at a large urban Chinese university. Building on the course instructor's model, students engaged in arts-based narrative inquiry to develop children's books on treasured fatherly life lessons that they then shared with second grade students at a local Chinese school. Drawing upon the "Confucian Analects" and Laozi's "Tao Te Ching," this study evidences empathy as rooted across cultures and ecologies, and that many fatherly life lessons take place in natural settings. This study encourages teacher education practice and research to engage arts-based autobiographical inquiry, and to explore empathy conceptualizations and expressions across cultures and ecologies. As "glocalization" brings together diverse groups, this work is important to create shared spaces for international connection and meaningful inter-institutional explorations.
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    Doubtless You Know ... A Children's Book Adaptation of an Original Poem
    (Indiana Association for Infant and Toddler Mental Health, 2015) Galvin, Matthew R.; Tomlin, A.; McKnight, R.; Zielke, D.; Galvin, Deborah C.
    Doubtless You Know tells the story of guanacos, animals who live in the mountains of Chile, a hot, high and dry land where there is little water. We hear their story of surviving and thriving as they share it with a young girl who takes the time to listen. The tale provides many chances to explore concepts that are important to our work with babies and their caregivers from an infant mental health perspective. As you experience the story, you may discover ideas that include the importance of considering multiple perspectives through observing and listening, the idea that we can all help no matter how small, that different kinds of knowing are useful, and that things are very often not as they first seem! We are sure that many of you will find other meanings as you reflect on the story from your own personal perspective
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    Sara's transformation: a textual analysis of Frances Hodgson Burnett's Sara Crewe and A Little Princess
    (2008-04-15T19:55:32Z) Resler, Johanna Elizabeth; Eller, Jonathan R., 1952-
    Frances Hodgson Burnett’s life revolved around her love of story-telling, her sons, nature, and the idealized notion of childhood. Burnett had an ability to recapture universal aspects of childhood and transform them into realistic stories containing elements of the fantastic or fairy tales. Her ability to tell stories started at a young age when she and her sisters were given permission to write on old pieces of paper. Burnett’s love for storytelling, reading, and writing was fostered in her parents’ household, in which a young Burnett was given free reign to explore her parents’ book collection and also left unhindered to imagine and act out stories by herself and with her sisters and close friends. Later her love for telling tales became a means of providing for her family—beginning with short story submissions to magazines. Although Burnett did not necessarily start out writing for children her career ended up along that path after the success in 1886 of her first children’s book, Little Lord Fauntleroy. After this success, she was a recognizable author on both sides of the Atlantic. Sara Crewe; or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s, the 1887–88 serial publication in St. Nicholas magazine and the 1888 short story publication both were titled the same, and the subsequent reworkings of Sara’s world in the forms of two plays, A little un-fairy princess (England, 1902), and A Little Princess; Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe, Now Told for the First Time (United States, 1903), and the 1905 full-length novel which retained the American 1903 play’s title, outlines the creative process that Burnett undertook while exploring the world of Sara Crewe. By examining the above forms, readers and scholars gain an insight into not only the differences between the forms, but also a view of how the author approached adapting an already published work, and the influence of editors on an authors work. The examination of the development of Sara’s timeline will bring light onto Burnett’s growth as a writer and specifically her transition into her role as a children’s literature author.
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    Using Children's Books & Stories: An Expansion of the Conscience Group Curriculum
    (IU Conscience Project, 2012) Bradshaw, Julia