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THE DISADVANTAGED AND THE DISABLED IN SHONA CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: THE NGANO (FOLKTALE) GENRE

Mousaion: South African Journal of Information Studies, 2016
Contemporary Shona society in Zimbabwe has witnessed the mushrooming of organisations meant to protect the disabled and the vulnerable. In addition, empowering legislative measures have been put in place. In most cases, however, such efforts bear limited fruits, especially because they are not in sync with Shona practice.
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SHONA FOLKTALES AS CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: THE CASE OF A.C. HODZA’S NGANO DZECHINYAKARE (1980)

Commonwealth Youth and Development, 2016
Some scholars of the genre of the folktale have argued that since time immemorial, folktales have been children’s literature created by adults for children’s pleasure. The main attraction in so describing African folktale as children’s literature was that this form afforded children entertainment as they listened to the stories narrated mostly by
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The North of England in Children’s Literature

2012
According to Hunt, magic and danger may occur around the ‘Celtic’ fringes, but the north of England is a blank on this map: ‘England is surrounded by wild mountains and wilder men’ (Hunt 1987: 13). Hunt’s remarks connect to a widespread assumption that the nostalgic pastoral idyll is the predominant and most suitable form for children’s literature ...
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Cultural Representation of Disability in Children’s Literature

2015
Research indicates that people’s reactions towards disability and disabled people are based more on what we learn through popular culture than on public policy or personal encounters (Mitchell & Snyder, 2000). Attitudes are learned, and in the Western part of the world disability and impairment are not seen as something that will probably touch all of ...
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NORTHERN SOTHO RIDDLES AS A FORM OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE: ISSUES OF LITERACY

PONTE International Scientific Researchs Journal, 2023
Zilibele Mtumane, Maishiko Doreen Mojapelo   +1 more
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AN OVERVIEW OF SOME ASPECTS OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES

PONTE International Scientific Researchs Journal
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A Coming or Going of Age? Children’s Literature at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

2014
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Banned, Bagged, Bowdlerized : a Diachronic Analysis of Censorship Practices in Children’s Literature of Turkey

History of Education and Children's Literature : HECL : XI, 2, 2016
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