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Counter-indoctrinations: Radical childcare books, children’s literature and children’s rights in Sweden around ’68

open access: yesStrenae, 2018
During the last hundred years, the Nordic countries have achieved an international reputation for attending to the child as an individual with rights of its own.
Olle Widhe
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“The University for the Poor”: Portrayals of Class in Translated Children's Literature

open access: yesTeachers College Record, 2015
Background Scholars of children's literature have been investigating portrayals of females and racial groups for several decades, yet few have examined depictions of social class.
Danielle E. Forest   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Refugee Experience in Alan Gratz’s Refugee and Gillian Cross’ After Tomorrow Margarete Rubik Summary As a response to recent

open access: yesActa Neophilologica, 2019
As a response to recent mass migratory movements, numerous children’s novels about refugees have been published in the last decades. The paper analyses two of these novels, Alan Gratz’s Refugee (2017) and Gillian Cross’s After Tomorrow (2013), and puts ...
Margarete Rubik
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Teaching mathematics with children’s literature in Finland

open access: yesNew Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2017
The Finnish school system will transfer to the new Core Curriculum for Basic Education 2014 in 2016. The new curriculum emphasizes integration of subjects. In Finland, mathematics and the mother tongue are the two subjects which are taught the most and therefore play a significant role in every primary teacher’s weekly routine.
openaire   +2 more sources

Diversity in Children’s Literature

open access: yes, 2018
Children’s literature is profoundly influential in the lives of students and is widespread throughout schools, libraries, and homes. However, the field of children’s literature lacks diversity across several domains, particularly race, gender, and ...
M. Leahy, Bridget C. Foley
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cyclic nucleotide signaling as a drug target in retinitis pigmentosa

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Disruptions in cGMP and cAMP signaling can contribute to retinal dysfunction and photoreceptor loss in retinitis pigmentosa. This perspective examines the mechanisms and evaluates emerging evidence on targeting these pathways as a potential therapeutic strategy to slow or prevent retinal degeneration.
Katri Vainionpää   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Boys and girls searching for identity. Novels and graphic novels for a new intercultural bildungsroman

open access: yesEducazione Interculturale, 2020
The present paper aims to investigate the issue of interculturality and migrations in contemporary literature addressed to teenagers and young adults, with a specific focus on those modern bildungsromans that pay attention to single individuals and to ...
Dalila Forni
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An investigation of interactive e-books in children’s literature

open access: yesNew Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 2016
One of the materials which are used in preparing children for life is undoubtedly printed books. Yet, technological innovations which affect life in every aspect change the structure of books. Books, with innovative features of the internet and computer, take its place first as an e-book after as an interactive e-book which is one of the last products ...
openaire   +1 more source

Pre-service Elementary Science Teacher Preparation through Children’s Literature

open access: yesThe American Biology Teacher, 2021
We investigated pre-service elementary teachers’ engagement in science and English language arts (ELA) instruction integrated in the context of a children’s book. Teachers developed models and conducted a compare-and-contrast analysis after exposure to different accounts of the butterfly life cycle: a popular children’s book, The Very Hungry ...
Owens, David C.   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The epithelial barrier theory proposes a comprehensive explanation for the origins of allergic and other chronic noncommunicable diseases

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Exposure to common noxious agents (1), including allergens, pollutants, and micro‐nanoplastics, can cause epithelial barrier damage (2) in our body's protective linings. This may trigger an immune response to our microbiome (3). The epithelial barrier theory explains how this process can lead to chronic noncommunicable diseases (4) affecting organs ...
Can Zeyneloglu   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

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