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A New Global Lens for Viewing Children’s Literature

2021
Children’s literature is a complex field and when examined globally there are many trends and issues that emerge. This is especially true when illustrations are the focus. From picture books to comics and graphic novels visuals in children’s literature are being used more and more in innovative and creative ways.
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Global Perspectives on Death in Children's Literature

2015
Introduction: Flying Kites and Other Life-Death Matters Lesley D. Clement Part 1: Adapting Death for Changing Contexts 1.Thus did hearth-companions grieve their lord's fall: Death, Mourning, and the Children's Beowulf Daniel Pinti 2. Loyalty, Honor, and Death in Rick Riordan's Olympus Series Ginger Stelle 3.
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Going global: World literature for American children

Theory Into Practice, 1999
(1999). Going global: World literature for American children. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 38, Expanding the Worlds of Children's Literature, pp. 168-177.
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Using Children's Literature and Drama to Explore Children's Lives in the Context of Global Conflicts

The Social Studies, 2014
This article examines children's literature that depicts people undergoing political conflict and war in a post-WWII era. These books portray political conflicts, refugees' relocation, and settlement in different countries. Using these books with drama inspired activities can help students gain awareness and empathetic attitudes toward those in a ...
Monobe, Gumiko, Son, Eun Hye
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A Global Lens for Viewing Children’s Literature

2014
The goal of this chapter is to provide background for the reader about visual literacy, how the visual has been found within children’s literature traditionally, and the global rise of visuals in children’s literature currently, as well as introduce a new genre that has a strong emphasis on the visual.
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Multicultural and Global Children's Literature as Agents of Change

2019
Literature is the primary method used in elementary schools across the disciplines to teach children. Forms of media technology (computers and iPads) used in elementary schools at present are primarily supplementary. This chapter focuses on literature as an agent for change within two education approaches, multicultural and global education.
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Iranian Children’s Literature: A Success Story Nationally and Globally

2021
Children’s literature has been more successful internationally than Iranian adult fiction and it is also a field that is more professionalised than the one for adults. In this chapter, I analyse children’s literature to understand phenomena that have been occurring in the larger field.
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Global Brand Symbols in Children’s Literature

Main purpose of this research is to analyse the global brand symbols that take part in the ‘National Geographic Kids' magazine which is known as children's literature publication. The research about analysing the children's literature publications with this focus was considered to be quite important because of the fact that in recent years, the global ...
Dedeoğlu, H., Sezer, Behlül Bilal
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Globalizing children's literature in academic libraries using automatic acquisition

Collection Building, 2011
PurposeThis paper sets out to examine the use of an automatic acquisition plan to acquire international children's award book winners in academic libraries and to offer suggestions for promoting these resources.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examined the vendor's website, vendor‐created spreadsheets detailing award‐winning children's books from ...
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Think globally, act locally: children’s literature and the promotion of education for global citizenship

2020
Cette étude de cas a été menée à bout avec un groupe de 13 étudiants qui fréquentaient une licence en Éducation Basique dans un institut polytechnique pendant l’année scolaire 2019/2020. On leur a demandé de répondre à un questionnaire axé sur la réflexion sur la promotion d’une citoyenneté globale à travers la littérature d’enfance.
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